Cricket Witness No 1 - Class Peace

3 Contents Introduction 4 Prologue 5 Chapter One Pre-Victorian Society; ‘Gentle and Simple’ 8 Chapter Two Pre-Victorian Society and Sport 17 Chapter Three Diaspora; Cricketing Migration 27 Chapter Four Renaissance; the Revitalisation of Cricket 37 Chapter Five Clubs and County Clubs 46 Chapter Six The Working Class Cricketer 57 Chapter Seven The Cricket Crowd 67 Chapter Eight Cricket and Class up to 1914 77 Chapter Nine Cricket and Class in the Inter-war Years 86 Chapter Ten The Shadow of Embourgeoisement 96 Chapter Eleven Cricket and Society in the 1940s 106 Chapter Twelve Towards Classless Cricket? 117 Chapter Thirteen Change of Culture; Change of Cricket 127 Chapter Fourteen First-class Fragility 138 Acknowledgements 143 Index 144