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A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume IPunch-Drunk Humanity

A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume I: Punch-Drunk Humanity [After Hall’s retirement, Sheffield boxing went into a 30-year decline. Many tried to follow but never achieved great success. At this time, boxing had to contend with the campaigning of Edith Summerskill MP for the abolition of their sport. The 1950s and 1960s were times of immense change; the advent of television, car ownership, affordable consumer goods and pop music changed British society for good. ‘Going out’ became the fashionable thing to do; food and drink were therefore marketable like never before, especially to the increasingly confident and independent young of both sexes. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of immigrants arrived from the colonies. Britain saw its first race riots, but the newcomers also contributed greatly to Britain’s post-war economic revival, as well as introducing their exotic food to British tables and their offspring to British boxing rings.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume IPunch-Drunk Humanity

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-63544-2
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315 –374
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10.1007/978-3-030-63545-9_9
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[After Hall’s retirement, Sheffield boxing went into a 30-year decline. Many tried to follow but never achieved great success. At this time, boxing had to contend with the campaigning of Edith Summerskill MP for the abolition of their sport. The 1950s and 1960s were times of immense change; the advent of television, car ownership, affordable consumer goods and pop music changed British society for good. ‘Going out’ became the fashionable thing to do; food and drink were therefore marketable like never before, especially to the increasingly confident and independent young of both sexes. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of immigrants arrived from the colonies. Britain saw its first race riots, but the newcomers also contributed greatly to Britain’s post-war economic revival, as well as introducing their exotic food to British tables and their offspring to British boxing rings.]

Published: Feb 21, 2021

Keywords: Edith Summerskill; Abolition; Immigration; Racism; Television

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