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Popular Recreations in English Society, 1700-1850 by [by] Robert W. Malcolmson is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Despite the challenge of seventeenth-century puritanism, many aspects of popular leisure continued to flourish in the century which followed: bull-baiting and cock-fighting; football, wrestling, cudgelling and cricket; and such holiday festivities as parish feasts, Michaelmas fairs, May Day rituals and Whitsun ales. In this book, Professor Malcolmson provides a full account of the sports, pastimes and festive celebrations of the English labouring people in the eighteenth century and examines the
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- Author
- [by] Robert W. Malcolmson
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 1973
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521201476
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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