1 CD: 44 minutes 32 seconds

1 CD, Richard Holt, sports historian, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 9 tracks. Track 1: [0:00-0:20] Introduction by Rayvern Allen, [0:21-2:16] Holt speaks about sports history becoming a serious subject matter and how he became involved with it. Track 2: [0:00-1:40] Holt talks about how he got into sports history through the first modern Olympic Games and his first book, [1:41-2:25] Holt talks about playing sport as a child and being more in-tune with British sport culture than France, [2:26-3:46] Holt talks about trying to explain the rules of cricket to a group of Frenchmen and the differences in the two countries, [3:47-5:27 Holt talks about his book Sport and the British and how cricket plays a role in it, highlighting cricket in years before the Victorians. [5:28-7:25] Holt talks about the work of John Goulstone and the start of football in mid-19th Century. Track 3: [0:00-1:15] Holt talks about sport in the early 19th century comparing the MCC to the Football Association and how rules were created, [1:16-2.24] Neil Carter talks about lack of importance in ruling associations especially Football Association [2:25-4:54] Holt talks about how the influence of the MCC incremental from the south, a PHD on the emergence of grassroots cricket in Yorkshire - outside the influence of MCC. Track 4: [0:00-2:58] Holt talks about holes in cricket history particularly in league cricket and the divide between north and south. Track 5: [0:00-0:59] Holt talks about the role of the Church of England in British establishment, muscular Christianity in schools, [1:00-2:33] Carter talks about the social routes of football and cricket, the role of non-conformist church teams and how football clubs originated as cricket clubs, [2:34-3:50] Carter and Holt talks about a PHD thesis on the history of cricket in Cornwall, [3:51-6:28] Carter talks about a PHD thesis on the history of cricket in Westmeath, Ireland and the place of cricket in Irish history. Track 6: [0:00-1:32] Holt talks about how sport and cricket can't be separated from wider context highlighting the GAA and its politics in promoting Gaelic sports and how its members actually played cricket, [1:33-3:24] Holt talks about how cricket history in the United States has been under-represented and how it has been written out of American history, [3:25-4:26] Holt talks about why cricket should have become more popular in France. Track 7: [0:00:0:23] Holt talks about how immigration affected the popularity of cricket in the United States, [0:24-1:02] Dilwyn Porter talks about the social exclusivity of cricket in the United States, [1:03-2:03] Holt and Porter man talk about the rise of baseball and how it became the American sport, [2:04-4:18] Holt talks about why the French don't play cricket, [4:19-5:26] Holt, Porter and Rayvern Allen discuss cricket in wider Europe. Track 8: [0:00-0:19] Porter talks about why cricket is not popular in Europe, [0:20-1:01] Rayvern Allen talks about being annoyed at no cricket in the Olympics, [1:02-1:56] Holt talks about cricket in the 1900 Olympic Games, [1:57-2:56] Holt talks about new areas of sport history research and gaps in cricket history, [2:57-3:53] Porter talks about amateurism and its decline, [3:54-4:37] Porter talks about more research needed in grassroots participation in sport. Track 9: [0:00-5:07] Holt talks about a piece of research on who amateur cricketers actually were and their backgrounds, comparing Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe and cricket holding two visions of England together. [5:08-6:26] Porter and Carter talk about cricket and rugby always highlighting class and status, [6:27-7.22] Holt talks about the rise of sponsorship in cricket and drop in popularity in the 1960's [Fades Out]. A back-up copy of this CD is included.

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