Professor Richard Holt interviewed by David Rayvern Allen

Reference

MCC/AAL/3/75

Date:

2011-07-19

Level of description

item

Extent

1 CD: 44 minutes 32 seconds

Part of

David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)

Scope and Content

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.

Associations

Richard HOLT
David Rayvern Allen
John Goulstone
David Underdown
Gaelic Athletics Association
Pierre de Coubertin
Dilwyn Porter
Sir John Berry Hobbs
Herbert Sutcliffe
Neil Dr. Carter

Subject

sports history, sports heritage, 18th century cricket, 19th century cricket, football, cricket in Yorkshire, cricket in Cornwall, cricket in Ireland, Westmeath, Ireland, cricket in America, baseball, Olympic Games 1900, cricket in Europe, amateur cricketers, amateurism

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 CD: 44 minutes 32 seconds

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