🟣 3.1 Emergence of the Globalisation of Sport in the 21st Century: Industrial and Post-Industrial Development of Sport (1780-1900) Flashcards
What where sports pastimes called in pre industrial Britain
‘Popular recreation’ activities
What where sports pastimes called after being moved to an industrially based society
Rational recreation
What was the difference between popular recreation and rational recreation . What does it reflect about society?
In rational recreation, there was a level or order, logic and structure which was applied to sports. This reflects a more ordered industrially based society
Rational recreation
19th century, sports pastimes designed for lower class by the middle class to be well ordered, organised and controlled
Who was Dr William Penny Brookes
Founder of the Wenlock Olympian games in 1850. He was a doctor and surgeon in the borough town of Much Wenlock
What group originally set up the Wenlock Olympian games
Wenlock agricultural reading society
Why was the Wenlock Olympian games originally set up
To promote moral, physical and intellectual improvements, especially in lower class people of Wenlock
Sports included in first Wenlock Olympian games
Mixture of athletics and quoits, football, cricket, running and hurdles
Where there rules in the Wenlock Olympian games
Yes
What else did the Wenlock Olympian society campaign for
Physical education to be on school curriculum and promoted benefits of sport and exercise nationally
Who visited the Olympian society and when
Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1890, this lead to the the inspiration of Coubertin and he established the International Olympic Committee and reform the Morden Olympic Games in Athens (1869)
Example of a Wenlock Olympian game and the prize
Old women’s race, pound of tea for the winner
