A Fine Solidarity in the Life of the Countryside
A Fine Solidarity in the Life of the Countryside: The Ashbees and Sport in the Cotswolds 1902- 1907. Article by Martin Polley in The International Journal of the hIstory of sport.
Between 1902 and 1907, C.R. and Janet Ashbee ran the Guild of
Handicraft from Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, a manu-
facturing and trade experiment underpinned by utopian ideas.
They used sport in the life of the Guild and the wider town in
various ways, including the construction of a public swimming
pool, the promotion of sports days, and the compilation of sport-
ing songs, while their writings – both public and private – on
sport revealed underlying assumptions about a sporting culture
that diverged from both the commercial and amateur models of
sport that were predominant in Edwardian Britain.
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