Horse racing

Huggins, Mike ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2789-4756 (2022) Horse racing. Digitens: Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century [online] .

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Abstract

Racing, Britain’s first proto-modern, widely-followed national sport, opens a window into wider sociability and cultural life. The annual race week created an important urban social space, involving both public and private sociability, attracting racehorse owners and gamblers; men and women; the country and towns-folk; and elite, middling and proletariat groups. The race ground offered a liminal space encouraging social mixing and status display, commercial opportunities and political-linked intercourse. The race week offered a wide range of ancillary attractions, from assemblies, theatres, balls, eating and drinking, to cock fighting or pugilism.

Item Type:	Article
Journal / Publication Title:	Digitens: Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century [online]
Publisher:	DIGIT.EN.S
ISSN:	2803-2845
Departments:	Institute of Arts > Humanities
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	30 Jan 2024 13:24
Last Modified:	31 Jan 2024 17:15
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/7536

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