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LSA Publication No. 107 Recording Leisure Lives: Sports, Games and Pastimes in 20th Century Britain Available from LSA Publications December 2009 ISBN 978 1 905369 18 8 Edited by Scott Fleming with Hazel Andrews, Peter Hackett, Mark Meadows, Martin Selby   LSA Individual (private) member ~ £33.00 LSA Corporate (institutional) member ~ £40.00 Non member ~ £48.00   TO ORDER Please contact LSA Publications: e-mail  mcfee@solutions-inc.co.uk The Chelsea School University of Brighton Eastbourne BN20 7SP (UK) Payment may be made by credit card (PayPal online) or by cheque.

LSA No. 107 Recording Leisure Lives: Sports, Games and Pastimes in 20th Century Britain Contents Recording Leisure Lives: Sports, Games and Pastimes in 20th Century Britain: Editors' Introduction Bob Snape and Helen Pussard v Part ONE 1 Exhibition and Inhibitions: New Narratives of Working-Class Boys and Leisure in the 1920s and 1930s           Melanie Tebbutt 3 The Local: Ideal and Reality in the English Pub Paul Jennings 21 Make-do-and-Mend: 'Leisure' or 'Work' in the Lives of Working-Class Women in Bolton and Oldham, Lancashire 1939­1945?           Alison Slater 41 Holiday-ed in North Wales: An Artist's Project           Stephen Clarke and Julia Garcia Hernandez 57 Part TWO 87 Mass-Observation, Sport and the Second World War           Matthew Taylor 89 "A growing rage": Darts in 'Worktown' (and elsewhere) in the 1930s           Patrick Chaplin 109 Mass Gambling: the Mass Observation Archive and Popular Leisure           Carolyn Downs 117 Part THREE 137 The Glory of Their Times: Black Rugby League Players, Imaginary Communities and the Invention of Tradition           Karl Spracklen, Stan Timmins and Jonathan Long 139 The Emergence of Dual 'Place-myths' on the Isle of Man: The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy (TT) Races 1919­1939           Simon Vaukins 155 Regional Cricket Identities: The Construction of Class Narratives and their Relationship to Contemporary Supporters           Duncan Stone 171 Walter Brickett - A Respectable Professor           David Day 193 Part FOUR 215 Creating Resort Identities and Loyalties among British Communities in Switzerland, 1870­1914           Susan Barton 217 Preachers, Pioneers and Pubs: The Origins of Cricket Clubs in Calderdale and Kirklees, West Yorkshire           Peter J. Davies 233 "In these days of the wonderful": Early Cinema Experience in the South West Coastal Resorts of Torquay, Sidmouth, Weston-Super-Mare and Barnstaple           Rosalind Leveridge 253 A Discussion of Post-war Sport in Britain           Neil Wigglesworth 269