Peter Swain
Biographic Data
| ID | 381195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Swain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Swain |
| SIGNATURE | SWAIN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Greater Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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Cultural Marginalization and Folk Football in England
This article explores the history of Hurling, a form of folk football, played predominantly in the south-west of England, between 1600 and 1860. In so doing, it seeks to contribute to the so-called ‘origins of football’ debate by examining evidence of the ’cultural marginalization’ of the game, originally outlined by the sociologist Eric Dunning. First, though, it examines Carew’s early account of the sport in which he describes two varieties of …
Reclassifying history
The paper makes a further contribution to the ‘Origins of Football’ debate, seeking to defend the so-called ‘revisionist’ position in that debate by calling into question the reclassification, by some historians, of reports of football played outside of the public schools in the early and mid-nineteenth century. It does not, however, argue that the ‘revisionist’ position should be seen in direct opposition to the ‘traditionalist’ account of footb…
Football Club Formation and the Lancashire Leisure Class, 1857–1870
This paper outlines the transition from football games played for occasional amusement to a system of organized football clubs playing regular matches in Lancashire in the mid-nineteenth century. This was led by young men of an emerging Lancashire leisured class being, in the main, the public school educated sons of the northern county’s commercial and industrial elite. These families had accumulated sufficient wealth, especially in the first hal…
Early Football and the Emergence of Modern Soccer
This paper seeks to defend one part of what has become known as the ‘revisionist’ account of the historiography of football in nineteenth-century England. In so doing, it responds to the critique by Tony Collins in his article ‘Early Football and the Emergence of Modern Soccer’ between 1840 and 1880, calling into question the reliance in his arguments of what he describes as ‘legal organized games’ as the only measure of a football culture outsid…
Manchester and the Emergence of an Association Football Culture, 1840–1880
This paper provides a critique of the article by Gary James and Dave Day on ‘The Emergence of an Association Football Culture in Manchester, 1840–1884', published in Sport in History. We suggest an alternative interpretation of Manchester's football history during this period, arguing that Association football was a minor form of football in a city largely dominated by the rugby code. Furthermore, by employing an artificial construct of Mancheste…
The Origins of Football Debate
This article seeks to add to the growing volume of evidence of a broad, tenacious and visible footballing culture throughout nineteenth-century Britain. It is argued that football persisted among the general population in a variety of forms, none of which required the assistance or involvement of the public schools or public schoolboys to ensure its survival as some historians had previously believed. Indeed, the sheer number of games, evidenced …
The Origins of Football Debate
This article presents extensive new material in ‘the origins of football debate’ by using the British Library's digitisation project of nineteenth-century newspapers. In so doing, it responds to claims from Graham Curry and Eric Dunning that previous works of the ‘revisionist historians’ John Goulstone, Adrian Harvey and Peter Swain are misleading and have led to hasty conclusions. It evidences a football culture beyond the domain of the public s…
The Origins of Football Debate
In response to recent articles by Eric Dunning and Graham Curry, this article presents a wide range of new material from the period 1841 to 1851 in the ‘Origins of Football Debate’, using evidence gleaned from the British Library's digitisation of nineteenth-century newspapers. It responds to the charge that the works of ‘revisionist historians’, John Goulstone, Adrian Harvey and Peter Swain, are misleading and have led to hasty conclusions, and …
The Origins of Football Debate
This article presents original and compelling new material in ‘the origins of football debate’, this time from the period 1852–1856, using the British Library's digitisation project of nineteenth-century newspapers. In so doing, it addresses the alleged disappearance of football in the wider community in mid-century, a problem that has troubled a number of scholars, not least because of the rapid expansion in the game amongst the working and lowe…
Bolton Against All England for a Cool Hundred’
This article traces the development of crown green bowls and underlines the class-based history of the game from private subscription bowling greens, patronized by the emerging commercial and industrial elite, through its expansion across the nineteenth century with limited liability company provision and the growth of municipal greens, and into the early twentieth century as a working-class popular pub sport, greatly encouraged by entrepreneuria…
Pedestrianism, the Public House and Gambling in Nineteenth-century South-east Lancashire
This article outlines a rich localized sporting culture based upon pedestrianism, the public house and gambling in nineteenth-century Bolton and its near neighbour, the shock city of the age, Manchester. As surrounding fields and moors of the city and town were gradually industrialized and urbanized, alternative spaces, premises and places were needed to accommodate sport. They were increasingly provided by entrepreneurial local publicans in a sh…
On Bosworth Field or the Playing Fields of Eton and Rugby? Who Really Invented Modern Football
In 1867 the Football Association was considering disbanding but was largely dissuaded from doing so by the progress the game was making in Sheffield. The football rules used there seemed much more appealing to teams and spectators alike and the game was beginning to be exploited commercially. This commercialism was resisted though by the local social elite who still had a fierce belief in amateurism and opposed the professionalisation of football…
Making Sense of Place
Cultural Continuity and Football in Nineteenth-century Lancashire
This article outlines the rich local cultural sporting practices endemic in south and east Lancashire from the 1820s through to the 1880s, particularly in the Bolton-Darwen-Blackburn triangle. These included playing football and foot-racing for money and other prizes; links with commercialism via the licensed trade and betting are also stressed. The existence of a localized football culture in this area, in a period when many historians have sugg…
Repositioning Class
Introduction Class and Class Analysis in the 1990s PART ONE: SOCIAL THEORY Distributional Struggle and Moral Order in a Market Society The Promising Future of Class Analysis A Response to Recent Critiques PART TWO: METHOD AND MEASUREMENT Classes in Britain Marxist and Official Social Class and Underclass in Britain and the USA Class, Gender and the Asymmetry Hypothesis PART THREE: SOCIAL MOBILITY Proletarianization in the British Class Structure?…
On Bosworth Field or the Playing Fields of Eton and Rugby? Who Really Invented Modern Football
In 1867 the Football Association was considering disbanding but was largely dissuaded from doing so by the progress the game was making in Sheffield. The football rules used there seemed much more appealing to teams and spectators alike and the game was beginning to be exploited commercially. This commercialism was resisted though by the local social elite who still had a fierce belief in amateurism and opposed the professionalisation of football…
The Origins of Football Debate
This article presents original and compelling new material in ‘the origins of football debate’, this time from the period 1852–1856, using the British Library's digitisation project of nineteenth-century newspapers. In so doing, it addresses the alleged disappearance of football in the wider community in mid-century, a problem that has troubled a number of scholars, not least because of the rapid expansion in the game amongst the working and lowe…
The Origins of Football Debate
In response to recent articles by Eric Dunning and Graham Curry, this article presents a wide range of new material from the period 1841 to 1851 in the ‘Origins of Football Debate’, using evidence gleaned from the British Library's digitisation of nineteenth-century newspapers. It responds to the charge that the works of ‘revisionist historians’, John Goulstone, Adrian Harvey and Peter Swain, are misleading and have led to hasty conclusions, and …
The Origins of Football Debate
This article seeks to add to the growing volume of evidence of a broad, tenacious and visible footballing culture throughout nineteenth-century Britain. It is argued that football persisted among the general population in a variety of forms, none of which required the assistance or involvement of the public schools or public schoolboys to ensure its survival as some historians had previously believed. Indeed, the sheer number of games, evidenced …
Football Club Formation and the Lancashire Leisure Class, 1857–1870
This paper outlines the transition from football games played for occasional amusement to a system of organized football clubs playing regular matches in Lancashire in the mid-nineteenth century. This was led by young men of an emerging Lancashire leisured class being, in the main, the public school educated sons of the northern county’s commercial and industrial elite. These families had accumulated sufficient wealth, especially in the first hal…
Manchester and the Emergence of an Association Football Culture, 1840–1880
This paper provides a critique of the article by Gary James and Dave Day on ‘The Emergence of an Association Football Culture in Manchester, 1840–1884', published in Sport in History. We suggest an alternative interpretation of Manchester's football history during this period, arguing that Association football was a minor form of football in a city largely dominated by the rugby code. Furthermore, by employing an artificial construct of Mancheste…
Cultural Continuity and Football in Nineteenth-century Lancashire
This article outlines the rich local cultural sporting practices endemic in south and east Lancashire from the 1820s through to the 1880s, particularly in the Bolton-Darwen-Blackburn triangle. These included playing football and foot-racing for money and other prizes; links with commercialism via the licensed trade and betting are also stressed. The existence of a localized football culture in this area, in a period when many historians have sugg…
Reclassifying history
The paper makes a further contribution to the ‘Origins of Football’ debate, seeking to defend the so-called ‘revisionist’ position in that debate by calling into question the reclassification, by some historians, of reports of football played outside of the public schools in the early and mid-nineteenth century. It does not, however, argue that the ‘revisionist’ position should be seen in direct opposition to the ‘traditionalist’ account of footb…
Early Football and the Emergence of Modern Soccer
This paper seeks to defend one part of what has become known as the ‘revisionist’ account of the historiography of football in nineteenth-century England. In so doing, it responds to the critique by Tony Collins in his article ‘Early Football and the Emergence of Modern Soccer’ between 1840 and 1880, calling into question the reliance in his arguments of what he describes as ‘legal organized games’ as the only measure of a football culture outsid…
The Origins of Football Debate
This article presents extensive new material in ‘the origins of football debate’ by using the British Library's digitisation project of nineteenth-century newspapers. In so doing, it responds to claims from Graham Curry and Eric Dunning that previous works of the ‘revisionist historians’ John Goulstone, Adrian Harvey and Peter Swain are misleading and have led to hasty conclusions. It evidences a football culture beyond the domain of the public s…
Bolton Against All England for a Cool Hundred’
This article traces the development of crown green bowls and underlines the class-based history of the game from private subscription bowling greens, patronized by the emerging commercial and industrial elite, through its expansion across the nineteenth century with limited liability company provision and the growth of municipal greens, and into the early twentieth century as a working-class popular pub sport, greatly encouraged by entrepreneuria…
Repositioning Class
Introduction Class and Class Analysis in the 1990s PART ONE: SOCIAL THEORY Distributional Struggle and Moral Order in a Market Society The Promising Future of Class Analysis A Response to Recent Critiques PART TWO: METHOD AND MEASUREMENT Classes in Britain Marxist and Official Social Class and Underclass in Britain and the USA Class, Gender and the Asymmetry Hypothesis PART THREE: SOCIAL MOBILITY Proletarianization in the British Class Structure?…
Cultural Continuity and Football in Nineteenth-century Lancashire
This article outlines the rich local cultural sporting practices endemic in south and east Lancashire from the 1820s through to the 1880s, particularly in the Bolton-Darwen-Blackburn triangle. These included playing football and foot-racing for money and other prizes; links with commercialism via the licensed trade and betting are also stressed. The existence of a localized football culture in this area, in a period when many historians have sugg…
Pedestrianism, the Public House and Gambling in Nineteenth-century South-east Lancashire
This article outlines a rich localized sporting culture based upon pedestrianism, the public house and gambling in nineteenth-century Bolton and its near neighbour, the shock city of the age, Manchester. As surrounding fields and moors of the city and town were gradually industrialized and urbanized, alternative spaces, premises and places were needed to accommodate sport. They were increasingly provided by entrepreneurial local publicans in a sh…
On Bosworth Field or the Playing Fields of Eton and Rugby? Who Really Invented Modern Football
In 1867 the Football Association was considering disbanding but was largely dissuaded from doing so by the progress the game was making in Sheffield. The football rules used there seemed much more appealing to teams and spectators alike and the game was beginning to be exploited commercially. This commercialism was resisted though by the local social elite who still had a fierce belief in amateurism and opposed the professionalisation of football…
Making Sense of Place
Bolton Against All England for a Cool Hundred’
This article traces the development of crown green bowls and underlines the class-based history of the game from private subscription bowling greens, patronized by the emerging commercial and industrial elite, through its expansion across the nineteenth century with limited liability company provision and the growth of municipal greens, and into the early twentieth century as a working-class popular pub sport, greatly encouraged by entrepreneuria…
The Origins of Football Debate
This article presents extensive new material in ‘the origins of football debate’ by using the British Library's digitisation project of nineteenth-century newspapers. In so doing, it responds to claims from Graham Curry and Eric Dunning that previous works of the ‘revisionist historians’ John Goulstone, Adrian Harvey and Peter Swain are misleading and have led to hasty conclusions. It evidences a football culture beyond the domain of the public s…
The Origins of Football Debate
In response to recent articles by Eric Dunning and Graham Curry, this article presents a wide range of new material from the period 1841 to 1851 in the ‘Origins of Football Debate’, using evidence gleaned from the British Library's digitisation of nineteenth-century newspapers. It responds to the charge that the works of ‘revisionist historians’, John Goulstone, Adrian Harvey and Peter Swain, are misleading and have led to hasty conclusions, and …
The Origins of Football Debate
This article presents original and compelling new material in ‘the origins of football debate’, this time from the period 1852–1856, using the British Library's digitisation project of nineteenth-century newspapers. In so doing, it addresses the alleged disappearance of football in the wider community in mid-century, a problem that has troubled a number of scholars, not least because of the rapid expansion in the game amongst the working and lowe…
Manchester and the Emergence of an Association Football Culture, 1840–1880
This paper provides a critique of the article by Gary James and Dave Day on ‘The Emergence of an Association Football Culture in Manchester, 1840–1884', published in Sport in History. We suggest an alternative interpretation of Manchester's football history during this period, arguing that Association football was a minor form of football in a city largely dominated by the rugby code. Furthermore, by employing an artificial construct of Mancheste…
The Origins of Football Debate
This article seeks to add to the growing volume of evidence of a broad, tenacious and visible footballing culture throughout nineteenth-century Britain. It is argued that football persisted among the general population in a variety of forms, none of which required the assistance or involvement of the public schools or public schoolboys to ensure its survival as some historians had previously believed. Indeed, the sheer number of games, evidenced …
Early Football and the Emergence of Modern Soccer
This paper seeks to defend one part of what has become known as the ‘revisionist’ account of the historiography of football in nineteenth-century England. In so doing, it responds to the critique by Tony Collins in his article ‘Early Football and the Emergence of Modern Soccer’ between 1840 and 1880, calling into question the reliance in his arguments of what he describes as ‘legal organized games’ as the only measure of a football culture outsid…
Reclassifying history
The paper makes a further contribution to the ‘Origins of Football’ debate, seeking to defend the so-called ‘revisionist’ position in that debate by calling into question the reclassification, by some historians, of reports of football played outside of the public schools in the early and mid-nineteenth century. It does not, however, argue that the ‘revisionist’ position should be seen in direct opposition to the ‘traditionalist’ account of footb…
Football Club Formation and the Lancashire Leisure Class, 1857–1870
This paper outlines the transition from football games played for occasional amusement to a system of organized football clubs playing regular matches in Lancashire in the mid-nineteenth century. This was led by young men of an emerging Lancashire leisured class being, in the main, the public school educated sons of the northern county’s commercial and industrial elite. These families had accumulated sufficient wealth, especially in the first hal…
Cultural Marginalization and Folk Football in England
This article explores the history of Hurling, a form of folk football, played predominantly in the south-west of England, between 1600 and 1860. In so doing, it seeks to contribute to the so-called ‘origins of football’ debate by examining evidence of the ’cultural marginalization’ of the game, originally outlined by the sociologist Eric Dunning. First, though, it examines Carew’s early account of the sport in which he describes two varieties of …
Velvet caps and tassles
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