Episode 877
England’s sporting obsession
Robert Colls discusses the importance of sport to English society over the past 200 years.
HistoryExtra podcast · Immediate
December 4, 202041m 35s
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Show Notes
Robert Colls, author of This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960, discusses the critical role that our love of sport has played in English civil society over the past two centuries – from 19th-century prize fighters to the magic of Bobby Charlton.
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