Overview
- Brings to light the developing culture of swimming in nineteenth-century England
- Showcases the central role individual swimming professors, as opposed to structures and organisations, played in inspiring participation in swimming
- Highlights the gender and class issues at work through its exploration of the importance of female and working-class exhibitors
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This book explores how different constituencies influenced the development of nineteenth-century swimming in England, and highlights the central role played by swimming professors. These professionals were influential in inspiring participation in swimming, particularly among women, well before the amateur community created the Amateur Swimming Association, and this volume outlines some key life-courses to illustrate their working practices. Female exhibitors were important to professors and chapter three discusses these natationists and their impact on women’s swimming. Subsequent chapters address the employment opportunities afforded by new swimming baths and the amateur community that formed clubs and a national organization, which excluded swimming professors, many of whom subsequently worked successfully abroad. Dave Day and Margaret Roberts argue that the critical role played by professors in developing swimming has been forgotten, and suggest that their story is a reminder that individuals were just as important to the foundation of modern sport as the formation of amateur organizations.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dave Day is Professor of Sports History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Margaret Roberts is an independent researcher.
Margaret Roberts is an independent researcher.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Swimming Communities in Victorian England
Authors: Dave Day, Margaret Roberts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20940-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20939-1Published: 01 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20942-1Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20940-7Published: 22 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 308
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social History, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Modern Europe, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Gender Studies