More Than a Game

A History of How Sport Made Britain

By: David Horspool

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Paperback | 6 June 2024 | Edition Number 1

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336 Pages

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A Times Best Sports Book of 2023

The remarkable stories of how sport shaped the British people.

The history of Britain is inseparable from our love affair with sport. Many of our most dramatic social shifts have played out in sporting arenas: cricket and class mobility, rugby and regional rivalry, tennis and gender equality, golf and battles for land, boxing and race-relations. The sporting theatre has even accelerated radical change via heroes including independence fighters, suffragettes and Jewish bare-knuckle boxers crashing the established order. From jousting between kingdoms to the rise of the Commonwealth Games at the end of the imperial era, More Than a Game is the fascinating account of the games, players and audiences that have defined Britain's past.

About the Author

David Horspool is an editor on the Times Literary Supplement, responsible for history, archaeology and sport. His most recent book is Cromwell: The Protector, for the Penguin Monarchs series. He is the author of Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation, Alfred the Great, The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Troublemaking from the Normans to the Nineties, and a co-author, with Arthony Arnove and Colin Firth, of The People Speak: Voices that Changed Britain . He contributes to the TLS, Guardian and The Spectator, and writes a monthly history column for the Oldie magazine. He is married with two sons and lives in London.

Industry Reviews

A superb historical overview of the eternally close and often symbiotic relationship between British sport and British society. Capacious, full of telling detail, unfailingly readable and, perhaps above all, imbued with rock-solid judgment, it deserves to become a classic of sporting literature

Absolutely fascinating and completely eye-opening - every page contains a gem. I loved it

A fascinating insight into how sport is both driven by and a driver of societal change

A sparkling history that makes the reader keep murmuring "I never knew that"

An elegant, richly-textured history

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