Professional football and local identity in the 'golden age': Portsmouth in the mid-twentieth century

Urban History

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 459-480

  Phelps, N A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HISTORY; SPORT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTSMOUTH [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33749123248     PISSN: 09639268     EISSN: 14698706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S096392680500324X     Document Type: Article

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