Cricket Witness No 1 - Class Peace

16 Pre-Victorian Society; ‘Gentle And Simple’ 1. Gyles Brandreth Discovering Pantomime (1973) for a detailed description of these changes. 2. Eric Midwinter ‘The First Grand National’ ch.2 pp. 40-52 Old Liverpool (1972). 3. Max Robertson Encyclopaedia of Tennis (1974). 4. Flora Thompson Lark Rise to Candleford (originally in three separate volumes; first joint publication 1945). 5. Jack Simmons The Victorian Railway (1991) for this reference but also as the definitive study of transport during the rest of the 19 th century when public transport played so enormous a role in the furtherance of cricket along with all major sports. 6. Emma Griffin Liberty’s Dawn; A People’s History of the Industrial Revolution (2013). 7. Paul Langford A Polite and Commercial People; England 1727 to 1783 (1992) for this reference but also as a general survey of the era. This is a slightly tongue-in-cheek title as Professor Langford reveals the full ‘Hogarthian vulgarity’ of the times.