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Pre-industrial Pre-industrial sportssports

Sport societySport society

BND Sport Yr2BND Sport Yr2

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Aim:Aim:• To define ‘pre-industrial period’

• To explore what living and sports were like during this time.

• To complete a time line

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Pre-industrial period:Pre-industrial period:• Mainly before 1780

• It includes– Middle age – 1066 - 1485– Tudor and Stuart periods – 1485 - 1714– Hanoverian period – 1714 – 1790

Task: in small groups think of something you know about each period

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Mediaeval age –Mediaeval age – 1066 - 1485 1066 - 1485

• Most of the population of Britain lived in rural areas.

• Sport did not cross class barriers in terms of participation and spectating.

• Society was split into 3 specific groupsTask: list the 3 groups, discuss their role in society

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Society was split intoSociety was split into 3 specific groups 3 specific groups

• The nobility (landlords, wealthy)

• The bourgeoisie (merchants, doctors)

• The peasants (slaves, servants)

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Sports were played Sports were played for 2 reasonsfor 2 reasons

1. For functional reasons:• To prepare men to defend their country.• Archery and hunting for the nobility

2. For cultural reasons:• Christianity became more widespread• Pagan festivals replaced by ‘holy days’• Holidays included Easter, Shrove Tuesday and

Ash Wednesday • These would involve sport – folk football,

wrestling, skittles and bowls.

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Tudor and Stuart Tudor and Stuart periods – 1485 - 1714periods – 1485 - 1714

• This period also known as ‘Renaissance’

• London the only recognised city• 10 % of people lived in town• Main source of income still farming• Society becoming more commercial

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Sport to maintain distance Sport to maintain distance between social groups:between social groups:

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Sports by classes - Sports by classes - Upper class:Upper class:

• Hunting on private land

• E.g red deer, boar, hares

• Sports used to prepare men for war

• Sharpening of their combat’s skills

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Sports by classes –Sports by classes –the peasantsthe peasants

• Role of servicing the sports of the upper classes.

• Also had own activities such as:– Mob football– Baiting animals

• High level of violence• To channel their

energies

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Hanoverian period – Hanoverian period – 1714 - 17901714 - 1790

• Changes in the way people earned their living

• Decline in farming• Growth in consumer goods• Factories were:

– Offering better wages and...– Promising a better standard of living

• Hence people start to move to cities

Sports is about to changeSports is about to changeNext week …

… industrial revolution and sport

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