Cricket Witness No 1 - Class Peace

45 Renaissance; The Revitalisation Of Cricket ‘the Great Cricket Explosion’. 7 Its shock-waves were felt all over the country. All in all, an immense number of keen cricketers were in places and in posts conducive to spreading the word and the deed of the sport. Reformed cricket was, within a generation, a national sport of unblemished reputation. 1. Harold Perkin The Origins of Modern English Society (1969). 2. Jeffrey Richards Film and British National Identity; from Dickens to Dad’s Army (1997), for an extended exegesis of this topic. 3. R.C.K. Ensor England; 1870-1914 (1936). 4. Cyril Norwood The English Tradition in Education (1928). 5. For example , see Eric Midwinter The Cricketer’s Progress; Meadowland to Mumbai (2010) pp.94-98. 6. Gerald Howat. ‘Cricket and the Victorian Church’ in Cricket Medley (1993) pp. 62-71. 7. Keith A.P.Sandiford Cricket and the Victorians (1994), especially chapter 4, pp.53-79.