Product Description: This study focuses on the approach of the working class movement to sport in inter-war Britain. It shows how the working classes were able to influence and shape sports through the resonance of their own culture and political intervention.

Product Description: Dr. Coghlan has used his experience on the Sports Council, as well as his many years in the field, to record the development of sport in Britain and the direct relationship between sport and politics. Two great threats hang over British sport - inadequate funding and the ever-increasing threat of government interference...read more