pre-industrial britain

Question 1

what’s it all about?
Popular recreation:
Feudal systems:

Answer 1

Popular recreation: the sport and pastimes of people in pre-industrial britain.

Feudal systems: broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around a relationship derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.

Question 2

What were activities like?~

Name minium 3

(lower class)

Answer 2

one of:

• Aggressive
• Reflected a harsh society
• Lots of damage to property
• Male dominated
• Lots of injueries

Question 3

What was life like in pre-industrial Britain?~

remember the 4 c’s for help, but try use as many other examples as possible first

name 5

Answer 3

Answers:

• Wide spread illiteracy (lower classes were uneducated, with little ability to read and write.
• People lived in the countryside / rural areas
• Communications and transport are limited
• There was limited free time as work was based on the land - free time was dictated to the agricultural seasons
• Class division clearly existed (upper class and lower class) based on a fuedl system.
• Cruel or violent existences were the norm for lower class. The upper class lived in comfort and luxury.

Question 4

how often was popular recreation for the lower class?~

Answer 4

there were number of popular recreations that can be identified in pre-indstrial britain. Long hours of work for the lower class meant popular recreation activities were restricted to annual eventa when the agricultural calendar allowed for their participation. (festival or holy days)

Question 5

What was the transport like in pre-industrial britain and how did affect people lives?~

Answer 5

Limited transportation available meant the popular recreational activities were local and specfic to each community, the area they lived in the countryside and they used natural resources that were available.

Question 6

who took part in athletics?

Answer 6

footmen (i.e hired servants) competed as messengers for the upper class for their speed of movement across open land.

Question 7

what was it like?

Answer 7

a form of competitive running/walking in the 17/18 th century involving feats of endurance

as time went on racing developed with some ‘challenge rules’

Question 8

what impact did success have for the upper class and the performer

Answer 8

success in athletics meant improved social status for a ‘gentlemen’ so the upper class were happy to act as patrons to the working class performers

started getting prize money which motivated performers and turned it into a competitive sport.

Question 9

what does patron mean

Answer 9

member of the gentry who looked after the lower-class performer, e.g by arranging competitions for them to participate in, putting up prize money and generally looking after the welfare of the performer.

Question 10

what were Festival Ocassions

Answer 10

early athletics took the form of festival occasions. prizes were awarded by the upper class patrons.