Our Sporting Monarchs

Royalty at War and Play Through the Ages

Our Sporting Monarchs
Keith Baker
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Hardback
h222 x 144mm - 224pg
15 Nov 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781785318771
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Sports of all kinds have played a crucial role in the reigns of our kings and queens. Some used it for purposes both brutal and mercenary, others to boost courage and prowess for war, and many because they enjoyed physical exercise and the thrills and excitement sport brings. Our Sporting Monarchs traces the involvement of royalty with sport from the Norman Conquest to modern times. It is an exciting, romantic and colourful story spanning 1,200 years of British history. Brought up in the archery butts, it was the English bowmen who won the Battle of Agincourt for King Henry V, while the Tudor sporting star, Henry VIII, wrestled for prestige with the French king on the Field of the Cloth of Gold. Learn about Queen Elizabeth I' s surprising passion for blood sports like bear-baiting, Charles I' s bitter quarrel with the Puritans over Sunday sport (which hastened the onset of the English Civil War), and discover how George V and VI' s racing pigeons were commandeered for messages in the two World Wars.
Keith Baker is the author of two previous books for Pitch Publishing and has written others of a historical and sporting nature. He is a retired senior civil servant and by temperament a historian and sports devotee. Keith was educated at Aberystwyth University and the London School of Economics. He lives in Sheffield, England.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781785318771
Published: 15 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pitch Publishing
Publisher: Pitch Publishing
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 144mm
Pages: 224

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