The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain.
Late‐Victorian and Edwardian Popular Conservatism is now mainly seen as a cultural‐ideological form, and this article aims to reconstruct one aspect of this ethos by focusing on the use of sport, especially horse racing, as a means of political differentiation and a method of attracting a new mass e...
| Publicado en: | Parliamentary History Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 207 - 226 |
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