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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, Malcolm is the author of 'Popular Recreations English Society' with ISBN 9780521201476 and ISBN 0521201470.
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