pre-industrial Britain

• society

  the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community
• cultural

  the ideas customs and social behaviour of a particular group of people or society
• mob football

  • between villages
  • played with a pigs bladder
• social class

  a group defined by their status within a community or population
• upper class sports

  cricket, real tennis, fox hunting
• real tennis

  • had money
  • a lot of rules and equipment
  • played by upper class
• two classes

  upper and lower
• male dominated society
• social and cultural factors

  • social class
  • gender
  • law and order
  • availability of time
  • availability of money
  • education
  • transport
• characteristics of lower class sports

  cruel, violent, simple, occasional, natural
• characteristics of upper class sports

  civilised, complex, regular, specialist, regional