Post industrial Britain
Cards (71)
- What primarily dictated leisure time in pre-industrial Britain?
- What significant change did the Industrial Revolution bring to the distinction between work and leisure?
- During the early stages of industrialization, how long were typical work shifts in factories?
- What was the significance of Sunday for the working class during industrialization?
- Why did working people have little time for leisure activities initially during industrialization?
- What kind of events were holidays often based on?
- How did the development of transport, such as railways, affect the leisure activities of the upper classes?
- What societal factor significantly shaped sports and pastimes in post-industrial Britain?
- Who comprised the emerging middle class in nineteenth-century Britain?
- What role did the middle class play in the development of sports during this era?
- Where were many of the middle class educated, influencing their role in sport development?
- What did it mean to be an amateur in sports during the 19th century?
- How was social distinction maintained in cricket teams with both amateurs and professionals?
- What were 'broken-time payments' in the context of sports?
- What amateur principle did broken-time payments contradict?
- What was the primary cause of the split in rugby into two codes?
- In what year did rugby split into rugby league and rugby union?
- Why were separate golf competitions initially held for amateurs and professionals?
- How did the competitive nature of professionals contrast with the amateur principles in sports?
- What role did lawn tennis play in the 1870s regarding women?
- Why was lawn tennis considered an acceptable form of exercise for women at the time?
- What distinction was created by the Marylebone Cricket Club hiring professionals for bowling and fielding?
- What did separate facilities for Gentlemen and Players indicate about social relations?
- What expectation was placed on women in the nineteenth century?
- Why was education for women viewed as frivolous by some in the 19th century?
- What professions were women allowed to enter during the 19th century?
- Why was teaching considered a low-status job for women at the time?
- What was the Taunton Royal Commission Report on secondary education about?
- What did female educational pioneers and campaigners seek to achieve?
- How did changes in laws and order affect activities for the working class?
- Why did the upper classes maintain sports like fox hunting despite concerns about cruelty?
- Why were working-class families reluctant to give up child labor for education?
- How did literacy and sport relate to social classes?
- What were the lower classes more engaged with?
- Why did more people become involved in sophisticated sports?
- Why did factory owners start encouraging sports?
- What did employers encourage the formation of?
- What was a major factor in the development and participation in sport?
- Why did the working class still find participation difficult?
- What did the growth of factories and machinery influence?