Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain : A Social and Cultural History (Paperback)

Preface  Introduction  1. Rugby League and the First World War  2. League on the Dole? The game in the depression years  3. Masters and Servants: The Professional Player 1919-39  4. Wembley and the Road from Wigan Peir  5. Rugby League in the ‘Peoples’ War’  6. From Boom to Bust 1945-75  7. ‘Chess with Muscles’: The Rules of the Game  8. The Kangaroo Connection: Anglo-Australian Rugby League  9. ‘Sporting Apartheid’: Rugby Union’s War against Rugby League  10. The Working-Man’s Game: Class, Gender and Race  11. The Other Amateurs: Beyond the Heartlands  12. From Slump to Super League 1975-1995  13. A Proletariat at Play  Appendices  Bibliography