‘We invented football. We gave the world cricket. We gave them golf, rugby and tennis. And how do they repay us? By thrashing us at every one. But if there was world championship for honourable losers, Britain would never be beaten.’ This course provides a historical context for understanding the development and codification of sports in the United Kingdom during the nineteenth century and examines the challenges to their underlying values in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Among topics examined will be: the commercialisation of sport, the reluctant acceptance of women and ethnic minorities into Britain’s sporting culture, the paradoxical exportation of sports to the different regions of the British Empire, the development of a vibrant supporter culture, the use of sport as a means of investigating the increasingly-fragmented ‘United’ Kingdom, and the state of British sport in the celebrity-driven world of the modern media.
Name: British Sporting Culture Qualification title: Non regulated SFA formula funded provision, Level 1, History, 21 to 44 hrs, PW A Qualification type: Assessment Awarding Generic award - no awarding body Created 20140821 11:05:13 Updated 20140821 11:05:13
A willingness to learn—and perhaps a pen and paper for note taking. Equipment required A willingness to learn—and perhaps a pen and paper for note taking.
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Title: Non regulated SFA formula funded provision, Level 1, History, 21 to 44 hrs, PW A Qualification: Non regulated SFA formula funded provision, Level 1, History, 21 to 44 hrs, PW A Classification: History, Philosophy and Theology