Keith Laybourn

Going to the dogs (eBook, ePUB)

A history of greyhound racing in Britain, 1926-2017

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Greyhound racing emerged rapidly in Britain in 1926 but in its early years was subject to rabid institutional middle-class opposition largely because of the legal gambling opportunities it offered to the working class. Though condemned as a dissipate and impoverishing activity, it was, in fact, a significant leisure opportunity for the working class, which cost little for the minority of bettors involved in what was clearly little more than a 'bit of the flutter' , This book is the first national study of greyhound racing in Britain from its beginnings, to its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, and up its long slow decline of the late twentieth century. Much of the study will be defined by the dominating issue of working-class gambling and the bitter opposition to both it and greyhound racing, although the attractions of this 'American Night Out' will also be examined.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526114532
• Artikelnr.: 56480277

Autorenporträt

Keith Laybourn BSc MA PhD FRHistS FHA is editor and Diamond Jubilee Professor Emeritus at the University of Huddersfield.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface List of abbreviations Introduction 1. The rise of greyhound racing in Britain 1926-45: the politics of discrimination 2. Discrimination and decline: greyhound racing in Britain
1945 to the 1960s 3. 'Animated roulette boards...': financing
operating and managing the greyhound tracks for racing the dogs
c. 1926-61 4. Dog breeding
dog owning and dog training: dividing the classes 5. An Ascot for the common man 6. Policing the tracks
detecting malpractice
and dealing with the racketeers and 'shady' individuals
1926-c. 1961 7. The decline of greyhound racing in Britain
1961-2017 Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index