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Despite the challenge of seventeenth-century puritanism, many aspects of popular leisure continued to flourish in the century which followed: bull-baiting and cock-fighting; football, wrestling, cudgelling and cricket; and holiday festivities. In this book, Professor Malcolmson provides a full account of the sports, pastimes and festive celebrations of the English labouring people in the eighteenth century.Malcolmson, Robert W. is the author of 'Popular Recreations in English Society, 1700-1850', published 2007 under ISBN 9780521295956 and ISBN 0521295955.
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