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Book Synopsis The Game Players of Slaithwaite by : Denis Hellewell
Download or read book The Game Players of Slaithwaite written by Denis Hellewell and published by Author House. This book was released on 2006-01-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolf spiders chasing clowns in the heather, rats running in the maze, townboys gaming at the museum, Americans invading Nant Saras. It was like living in an early Spielberg movie one of the classics, Harry Potter and the Temple of Doom or the Mattress perhaps? Not that any of us ever saw ourselves as a hero. It''s a long time since we saw one of those films, even though they play endlessly on the net. Everything is on the net, all the facts and fictions. Like that rubbish about Napoleon, inventing corned beef, the trouble that got us into. What did we know? We were just kids from the academy.
Book Synopsis Cricket in the First World War by : John Broom
Download or read book Cricket in the First World War written by John Broom and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Europe descended into war over the summer of 1914, cricket in England continued as it had for the preceding few decades. Counties continued with their championship programme, clubs in the North and Midlands maintained their league and cup rivalries whilst less competitive clubs elsewhere enjoyed friendly matches. However, voices were soon raised in criticism of this ‘business as usual’ approach – most notably that of cricket’s Grand Old Man, W.G. Grace. Names became absent from first-class and club scorecards as players left for military service and by the end of the year it was clear that 1915’s cricket season would be very different. And so it would continue for four summers. Rolls of honour lengthened as did the grim lists of cricket’s dead and maimed. Some club cricket did continue in wartime Britain, often amidst bitter disputes as to its appropriateness. Charity matches were organised to align the game with the national war effort. As the British Empire rallied behind the mother country, so cricket around the world became restricted and players from far and wide joined the sad ranks of sacrifice. Cricket emerged into the post-war world initially unsure of itself but the efforts that had been made to sustain the game’s infrastructure during the conflict ensured that it would experience a second golden age between the wars.
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Download or read book The Amateur Theatre and Playwrights' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cricket and community in England by : Peter Davies
Download or read book Cricket and community in England written by Peter Davies and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available in paperback for the first time, Cricket and Community in England: 1800 to the Present Day is a path-breaking enquiry into the social history of the summer game. It is written by two specialist cricket historians and based on extensive primary research. It traces the history of the sport at grassroots level from its origins right up to the present day. It will appeal to the cricket historian and the general sports enthusiast alike. The book has two main goals: to provide readers with an accessible introduction to the history of grassroots cricket in England and to supply a clear overview of the different phases of this history. The structure of book is chronological but also thematic. The six chapters look at such issues as early cricket, the origins of clubs, competition, the two world wars, multiculturalism and cricket in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book The Lancet written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cricket in the Second World War by : John Broom
Download or read book Cricket in the Second World War written by John Broom and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the civilised world fought for its very survival, Sir Home Gordon, writing in The Cricketer in September 1939, stated that ‘England has now started the grim Test Match with Germany’, the objective of which was to ‘win the Ashes of civilisation’. Despite the interruption of first-class and Test cricket in England, the game continued to be played and watched by hundreds of thousands of people engaged in military and civilian service. In workplaces, cricket clubs, and military establishments, as well as on the famous grounds of the country, players of all abilities kept the sporting flag flying to sustain morale. Matches raised vast sums for war charities whilst in the north and midlands, competitive League cricket continued, with many Test and county players being employed as weekend professionals by the clubs. Further afield the game continued in all the Test-playing nations and in further-flung outposts around the world. Troops stationed in Europe, Africa and the Far East seized on any opportunity to play cricket, often in the most unusual of circumstances. Luxurious sporting clubs in Egypt hosted matches that pitted English service teams against their Commonwealth counterparts. Luminaries such as Wally Hammond and Lindsay Hassett were cheered on by their uniformed countrymen. Inevitably there was a sombre side to cricket’s wartime account. From renowned Test stars such as Hedley Verity to the keen but modest club player, many cricketers paid the ultimate price for Allied victory. The Victory Tests of 1945 were played against a backdrop of relief and sorrow. Nevertheless, cricket would emerge intact into the post-war world in broadly the same format as 1939. The game had sustained its soul and played its part in the sad but necessary victory of the Grim Test.
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Author :Jeremy Lonsdale Publisher :Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians ISBN 13 :1912421089 Total Pages :195 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (124 download)
Book Synopsis A Game Sustained: The impact of the First World War on cricket in Yorkshire 1914-20 by : Jeremy Lonsdale
Download or read book A Game Sustained: The impact of the First World War on cricket in Yorkshire 1914-20 written by Jeremy Lonsdale and published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over two million British men were injured or killed in the First World War. Millions more people supported the war effort at home – in factories, fields or by keeping essential services going. In these circumstances, how could something as trivial as cricket continue? For some, it was not acceptable; for others, watching or playing sport were reasonable responses to government calls to ‘carry on’. A Game Sustained examines what happened to cricket at all levels in Yorkshire between 1914 and 1918; how it kept going with so many men away; how its top league managed to attract players such as Hobbs, Barnes and Woolley; and how, when peace came, cricket resumed its place in county life in 1919 and 1920. It is a story of divided opinions and of guilt and uncertainty about the correct way to behave. It is also the story of efforts to sustain traditions and to keep some sense of normality at a time of crisis.
Author :Mark Rowe Publisher :Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians ISBN 13 :1708165754 Total Pages :233 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (81 download)
Book Synopsis The Summer Field: A History of English Cricket Since 1840 by : Mark Rowe
Download or read book The Summer Field: A History of English Cricket Since 1840 written by Mark Rowe and published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cricket has come a long way since players could only travel on foot, or by horse and cart. Some things never change; someone has to bat, someone bowl, someone be captain; everyone has to learn. The game is nothing without cricketers; yet the men (or women) on the field are never the full story, as The Summer Field shows. It includes spectators, journalists, ground-keepers, coaches, umpires, selectors and tea ladies. Nor is it only the story of the greatest players, such as Sydney Barnes and Herbert Sutcliffe; we meet also Will Richards, the Nottingham school-teacher; his friend George Wakerley, the job-hunting club professional; and Freeman Barnardo, of Eton and Cambridge. This history of cricket since the coming of the railways seeks to answer questions, such as: what was it like to play cricket in the past? Who played it, and why did they? And why are the English so obsessed with Australia?
Book Synopsis The Story of Huddersfield by : Roy Brook
Download or read book The Story of Huddersfield written by Roy Brook and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annals of the Church and Parish of Almondbury, Yorkshire by : Charles Augustus Hulbert
Download or read book Annals of the Church and Parish of Almondbury, Yorkshire written by Charles Augustus Hulbert and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Ben o' Bill's, the Luddite: A Yorkshire Tale by : D. F. E. Sykes
Download or read book Ben o' Bill's, the Luddite: A Yorkshire Tale written by D. F. E. Sykes and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1898, this fiction deals with surprisingly contemporary issues of the period and is the social history of the time it stands out. What makes this work different from the existing literature of that period is the use of the local dialect and the expertise with which the characters and their lives have been portrayed at a period of such unrest in the Colne Valley. The Luddites were not unreasonable machine destroyers but desperate men, suffering in destitution, sorrow, and despair, fighting for a voice to be heard against cruel mill owners and a crooked government. The authors of this work were transparent in their compassion for the cause of these workers and the background and reasoning behind these events The book was originally credited to D. F. E. Sykes and G. H. Walker, G. H., but Walker's name.
Book Synopsis A Glossary of the Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield by : Alfred Easther
Download or read book A Glossary of the Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield written by Alfred Easther and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Honley by : Mary A. Jagger
Download or read book The History of Honley written by Mary A. Jagger and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis WHAT Did You Say Stopped Play? by : Matthew Engel
Download or read book WHAT Did You Say Stopped Play? written by Matthew Engel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the mysteries of cricket is the fact that, of all games, it acts as a magnet for amazing, eccentric, humorous and downright weird happenings. For the past quarter-century the Chronicle section of Wisden has been collecting news of cricket's strangest goings-on. This is just a selection... It's normal for rain to stop play in cricket. But that's not all: flying objects, passing dictators, animals of all kinds including a very improbable tiger – they have all had the same effect. But even when the game keeps going, cricket is a magnet for the weird and wonderful. For the past quarter-century the Chronicle section of Wisden has been collecting the most remarkable events in the game: the eccentric, the extraordinary and the excruciatingly funny. This is the cricket that reference books would normally ignore, from the village greens of England to the back alleys of Asia. This selection is about Tendulkar-worshippers and angry neighbours; about scoring a thousand and being all out for nought. There are politicians and protesters; celebs and streakers; judges and jobsworths ... and batsmen who really do murder the bowlers.
Book Synopsis I.C.I. Magazine by : Imperial Chemical Industries, ltd
Download or read book I.C.I. Magazine written by Imperial Chemical Industries, ltd and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
