Output details
30 - History
De Montfort University
Book title
A social history of English Rugby Union.
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Routledge
ISBN of book
9780415476607
Year of publication
2009
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
-
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
The book is the first serious historical study of the sport of rugby in England. It took seven years to research and write. It is 120,000 words in length and covers an extensive period, essentially from 1857 to 2003. It necessitated the use of several major archives, notably the English and Australian Rugby Football Unions, the International Rugby Board, the Rugby Football League, various rugby clubs, Mass-Observation and The National Archives, in addition to hundreds of books, pamphlets and ephemera. The detailed prosopographical analysis underpinning the book’s analysis of class relations in rugby also involved considerable and painstaking statistical research.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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