popular recreation Flashcards
characteristics of popular recreation
Male dominated-reflected harsh society
Lack of transport-games were played locally
Natural resources-lack of technology
Occassioanlly-lack of free time
Basic unwritten rules-lack in education
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example of sport played by lower classes
Ashbourne mob football
male dominated-shows harsh society
lack of transport-games played locally
natural resources-e.g pig bladder instead of leather football
occasionally e.g on holy days such as Shrove tuesday-lack of free time/working on land
basic unwritten rules-lack in education
reasons mob football was banned
violent and unruly in nature
led to injury and deaths
led to damage of property
linked to alcohol consumption/drunken behaviour
rational recreation
where britain changed into an industrially based soiety
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‘activities had more order, lgi and structure began to be appliedto sports such as football
much wenlock games
forerunner of the modern olympic games
orignated from WARS
william peny brooks fromed olympic class
aim was to bring out moral, phsycial and intellectual devlopments into munchi
local progect targeted at residence of much
industial revolution
took place in mid nineteeth centruies
britain changed from rural society to an industrai;sed, machine based, capatilit soity controlled by powerful urban middle class
what happened during the first half of the nineteeth century
Health-poor wokring and loving condiitons that led to lack of hygeine, little energy to play sport
Income-low wages and poverty evident, little spare income for leisure pursuits
Space-new factories built meant lack of space, overcrowing, not enough room for traditional mob games
Free time-long 12 hour wokring days, 6 times a week meant little free time to participate in sport
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second half of nineteeth cnetury (imporvements)
health and hygiene imporved-public baths installed to imporve cleanisness and help stop diseases, more energy and willingness to partipate in sport
increase in wages/more time for sport-factory acts and saturday half days (gradual decrease in working hourse) more time to play sport
development of new middle class-self made men who took advanatge of business opportunities avaliable in newly industralised britain ]
]they developed leagues/competitions
provided facilties/public parks
introduced broken time payments,more time of work
values of athleticims-always trying hard and working to the best of your ability but taking part in spirait of fair play was spread to lower classes
imporvemtns in transport-development of roads and steam trains increased spectators and players could travel, fixtures and results could be published in the papers
became cheaper to travl so participation in spirt and spectaign sport became more accessible
urbanisation
people migrating from rural areas to urban areas to seek work
transport revolution what impacts did it make
movement of teams/spectators-development of trains and railways meant people could travel more easily, further, giving longer time for matches, nationwide fixtures
imporved access to different countries-train travel enabled sport to develop from local to regional to national with leagues forming and imporvemnts of clubs
cheaper travel-became more affordable for all, increasing spectaors, allowing people to travel and watch away games supporting their team
communcations improved
e.g newspaper
increased awareness of sport
emergence of role models as people could read match reports and relate to their fave players scoring goals or helping to win
