Leo McKinstry

How sport helped shape the British character

David Horspool connects different sports to our historical experience: cricket with class, golf with property rights, tennis with female emancipation and boxing with ethnicity

A 19th-century print of golfers on Blackheath. [Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images]

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