Sports and pastimes in pre-industrial Britain Flashcards
What are the two social classes in pre-industrial Britain?
- Upper class - the gentry
- Lower class - the working class
How did social class effect participation and type of activity in pre-industrial Britain?
Give examples
Social class determined participation and the type of activity.
* Upper class people had a higher participation and played sports such as: real tennis, archery, and hunting
* The working class participated in sports/pasttimes such as: Mob football, and cruel animal sports
Cricket was the only sport upper and lower classes played together
How does gender effect sport and pastimes in pre-industrial Britain?
- Men participated more than women
- Opportunities for women were limited by
~ Societies expectaions of female behavior
~ Clothing/ dress standards
~ Disapproval of physical exertion - Therefore women were expected to take part in activities such as archery, side sadle horse riding, pedestrianism, and hawking
How does education and literacy effect sport and pastimes in pre-industrial Britain?
Upper class - private education (public schools), therefore literate and had codified rules and tactics
Working class - no formal education, therefore limited literacy, so had unwritten rules
How did law and order effect sport and pastimes in pre-industrial Britain?
- Lack of formal law and order in society
- Sport reflected this, therefore had a lack of codified rules
- Sport was violent and unruley
How did the availability of time effect sports and pastimes in pre-industrial Britian?
Upper class had more free time:
* therefore more participation
* Upperclass sports were more time consuming e.g. hunting and golf
- Working classes worked long, physically intensive hours
- Working classes only had time during public holidays to partcipate
How did availability of money effect sports and pastimes in pre-industrial Britain?
Upper class had more disposable income therefore:
* participation was higher
* had access to equipment and facilites e.g. real tennis
Upper classes acted as patrons to support lower classes, therefore there were lower class proffesionals, e.g. bare knuckle boxing
How does the type and availability of transport effect participation in pre-industrial Britain?
Upperclasses had access to transport e.g. horses/ horse and carriage, the upperclasses could travel to play with other members of the upperclass, this assisted the codiftication of rules
