The Development of Sports in Victorian England — Participation and Spectatorship

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General

• Thomas Hughes on the value of team sports in secondary education
• "Let the remembrance of it take care of itself" — Thomas Hughes on the transience of athletic fame

Individual sports or activities

• bathing (i.e. swimming)
• Passing the Swimming Test at Eton (image)
• Victorian bathing machine (image)
• Learning to swim (image)
• bicycling
• [Woman's cycling outfit]
• boxing
• cricket
• The Eton-Harrow Cricket Match (image)
• The Cricket Fields at Eton (image)
• Waiting for His Innings (sculpture)
• The professional
• fishing
• Fishing punt and fly fishing
• Fishing for gudgeon from a punt
• Dibbing for Chubb
• football
• The Wall Game (image)
• Rugby 1899
• golf
• horse racing
• horse riding
• [Riding in Hyde Park] (image)
• hunting
• Shooting an Otter
• Flight Shooting
• Approaching the fowl with stalking-horse
• Shooting with the stalking-horse
• Hunting with the stalking-horse
• The stalking-horse in Shakespeare and other authors
• Moor-hen shooting
• mountain climbing
• punting (see Oxford and fishing)
• Woman punting (1)
• Woman punting (2)
• rowing and paddling for leisure
• Man paddling
• Woman paddling
• competitive rowing
• Racing boat, single oarsman
• The Eight-oared cutter
• The Thames Wherry
• Henley-on-Thames: the Regatta Course (I)
• Henley-on-Thames: the Regatta Course (II)
• The Captain of the Boats at Eton (image)
• [The Victorious Boat] at Eton (image)
• The Rowers (sculpture)
• rugby
• sculpture
• cartoon
• track and field

Bibliography

• Games in Victorian Literature: A Bibliography

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Last modified 15 May 2012