
Social History of Tennis in Britain
Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History.
From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a highly commercialised and professionalised high-performance sport, the history of tennis in Britain reflects important themes in Britain’s social history. In the first comprehensive and critical account o...
Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History.
From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a highly commercialised and professionalised high-performance sport, the history of tennis in Britain reflects important themes in Britain’s social history. In the first comprehensive and critical account o...