pre industrial sports
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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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