Cricket Witness No 4 - Women at the WIcket

92 Workplace and Working-Class Women’s Cricket 1 Ross McKibbin, Classes and Cultures: England 1918-1951 (Oxford, 1998), 336; Williams, Cricket and England , 114-38. 2 Williams, Cricket and England , 42, 114-38. 3 Ibid , 27-35, 100-1; Martin Francis, ‘Leisure and Popular Culture’, in Zweiniger- Bargielowska, Women in Twentieth-Century Britain , 237; Richard Holt, Sport and the British (Oxford, 1989), 129; Peter Davies and Robert Light, Cricket and Community in England: 1800 to the Present Day (Manchester, 2012), 124; Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 275-92. 4 Morning Post (10 August 1932); Joy, Maiden Over , 44. 5 Davies, ‘Bowling Maidens Over’, 284-90; Williams, Cricket and England , 27-35, 101. 6 England v Wellington Match Programme (WCA archive, 5 February 1935), 3; Betty Archdale, ‘Letter from Miss Cox’, Scrapbook from Australia (MCC archive, 1934); Joy, Maiden Over , 46; 7 CWM (December 1934), 18. 8 WCA, First Meeting (1926), 11. 9 WCA, Report 1928, 1; Report 1938, 65-79. 10 Penny Tinkler, ‘Girlhood and Growing Up’, in Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Women in Twentieth-Century Britain , 38-9; Holt, Sport and the British , 136. 11 Board of Education, Report of Inspection of Gravesend County School for Girls, Kent (October 1925), 4; (February 1938), 2; Board of Education, Report of Inspection of the County School for Girls, Tonbridge, Kent, (November 1921), 3. 12 The Mayfield Magazine 19 (1934), 32; Women’s Cricket (August 1934), 64; (June 1939), 28; WCA, Report 1935, 30; Report 1938, 13. 13 Women’s Cricket (July 1932), 51; (June 1934), 22-3; (June 1936), 21-2; (June 1938), 34; CWS, Ourselves (June 1937), 250; Daily Mirror (25 May 1931). 14 Women’s Cricket (June 1934), 22-3. 15 Tony Collins, Rugby’s Great Split (Oxford, 1996); Duncan Stone, ‘“It’s all friendly down there”: The Club Cricket Conference, amateurism and the cultural meaning of cricket in the south of England’, Sport in Society 15:2 (2012), 195-8. 16 Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 417-8. 17 Beddoe, Back to Home , 102-29; Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Managing the Body , 257. 18 Peek Frean, A Hundred Years of Biscuit Making at Peek, Frean (London, 1957), 10; Women’s Cricket (May 1932), 4; Mike Savage, ‘Trade Unionism, Sex Segregation and the State: Women’s Employment in New Industries in Interwar Britain’, Social History 13:2 (1988), 209-230. 19 Bishop, Bats, Balls and Biscuits , 109-20. 20 Miriam Glucksmann, Women Assemble: Women Workers in the New Industries in Interwar Britain (London, 1990), 2-5, 40-50, 66, 217-222. 21 Ibid , 44. 22 Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 293-4; WCA, Report 1938, 65-7. 23 Beddoe, Back to Home , 61-3; Glucksmann, Women Assemble , 52; WCA, First Meeting, 11; Report 1933, 43-60. 24 James Nott, Going to the Palais (Oxford, 2015), 41; Claire Langhamer, Women’s Leisure in England , 60. 25 Skillen, Women, Sport and Modernity , 101-44. Although councils did hold the power to maintain and charge for use of cricket pitches, see Public Health Act (1925), 30-9. 26 Women’s Cricket (May 1937), 22; (September 1939), 86. 27 Beddoe, Back to Home , 70; Rowntree’s, Labour Policy (Borthwick Institute, March 1927): 90% of female employees were piece workers. 28 Williams, Cricket and England , 29. 29 Huntley and Palmer’s, Recreation Club Programme and Souvenir (Reading, 1938); Interview with John Crittall (British Library C707/518/1-2, 1977). 30 BWM (November 1902), 14; (May 1916), 145; CWM (1912), 1295.