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define popular recreation
the sport and pastimes of people in pre-industrial Britain.
define mob football
an example of an activity played in pre-industrial Britain
define real tennis
an exclusive activity that didn’t necessarily reflect the typical popular recreation characteristics of the time
define ‘the Wenlock Olympic Games’
was the forerunner to the modern Olympic games and was set up to promote moral, physical, and intellectual improvements founded in 1850
define rational recreation
started in the mid to late 19th century Britain and was a reforming and moral project, in which middle class patrons promoted civilised sport to lower classes.
define the Feudal system
it was a way of sturcturing society around a relationship derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.
Foot racing
A form of competitive running/ walking in the seventeenth and eighteenth century
