Golf and the english suburb: Class and gender in a London club, c.1890-c.1960

Sports Historian

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 76-89

  Holt, Richard ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85011485344     PISSN: 13515462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17460269809444770     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Lowerson, John, Sport and the English Middle Classes 1870-1914 (Manchester, Manchester UP 1990), chap. 5.; see also Lowerson’s essay in Mason, Tony (ed), Sport in Britain: A social histoiy (Cambridge, Cambridge UP 1989)
2. I deal briefly with suburban golf in Holt, Richard Sport and the British: A modern histoiy (Oxford, Oxford UP 1989), pp.130-4 and there is a general outline in G. Cousins Golf in Britain: a social histoiy from the beginnings to the present day (London, Routledge 1975).
3. Updike, John, Golf Dreams (New York, Knopf 1996), p. 124
4. Aflalo, F (ed), The Cost of Sport (London 1899), pp. 283-89
5. Macdonell, A.C., England Their England (London, Folio 1991ed.), 80
6. Lowerson, John, Golf and the Making of Myths, in Jarvie, Grant and Walker, Graham (eds.), Scottish Sport and the Making of the Nation (London, Leicester UP 1994), pp75-90
7. Lewis, Peter N, The Growth ofGolf in Britain, 1890-1914, Golfiana, vol 6, 1, 1994, p13
8. R. Crossley, Golfing Ladies (London, Orbis 1984)
9. Holt, Richard, Stanmore Golf Club 1893-1993: A social histoiy (London, Stanmore Golf Club 1993)
10. for those attracted to the genre Bromhead, John, Droitwich Golf Club 1897-1997 (Kempsey, Worcs., Grant Books 1996) is full of interesting material. For a useful recent summary of the urban history of London, see Thompson, F.M.L. (ed.), The Cambridge Social Histoiy of Britain (Cambridge, Cambridge UP 1990), vol. 1, chap. 7
11. Perkin, Harold, The Rise of Professional Society (London, Routledge 1989) provides the occupational context.
12. Lewis The Growth of Golf in Britain, Golftana, pp.11-13
13. Bale, John Landscapes of Modern Sport (Leicester UP 1994), p.44
14. this natural theme was explored in a non-sporting sense in Thomas, Keith, Man and the Natural World (London, Penguin 1983), esp. part V, and has been elaborated in Schama, Simon Landscape and Memory (London, Fontana 1996 ed.), esp. chap. 9 ‘Arcadia redesigned’.
15. Harrow Gazette, 25 June 1893
16. Harrow Observer, 25 June 1893
17. Madame Magazine, (undated press clipping, possibly 1899, in club archives, which it has not been possible to verify).
18. H. Long, The Edwardian House: The middle class home in Britain, 1880-1914 (Manchester, Manchester UP 1993)
19. Stanmore GC: Minutes of the Club Committee, meeting of June 1912
20. List of Persons holding Shares in Stanmore Golf Club Limited, 18 July 1925 held at Public Record Office, Kew, ref. BT 31 25277 161046
21. Minute Book of Stanmore Links Limited, meeting of May 1943
22. Minute Book of Stanmore Links Limited, meeting of 7 Jan. 1950
23. Minute Book of Stanmore Links Limited, meeting of 22 January 1950
24. Minute Book of Stanmore Links Limited, circular dated 27 Nov. 1949
25. Stanmore GC: Register of Members, 1907-9.
26. Stanmore GC: Minutes of the Ladies Committee, 30 March 1910
27. Stanmore GC: Minutes of the Club Committee, 6 October 1945
28. Stanmore GC: Minutes of the Ladies Committee, 2 June 1956
29. Stanmore GC: Minutes of the Ladies Committee, 18 July 1911
30. Stanmore GC: Minutes of the Club Committee Jan. 1912
31. Stanmore GC: Minutes of the Club Committee 2 July 1912; 23 November 1911
32. Stanmore GC: Minutes of the Club Committee 13 April 1947
33. Stanmore GC: Minutes of the Club Committee, 29 November 1954
34. Stanmore GC: Minutes of the Club Committee, March 1932
35. Stanmore GC: Minutes of the Club Committee, April 1932
36. The Artisan Golfer, Oct-Dec 1952, p.6