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Racing Crazy
For over 20 years, David Ashforth has entertained with his distinctive view of horse racing, first in The Sporting Life then the Racing Post. 'Racing Crazy' presents the best of his work, with the boring bits taken out. Comic and informative, here are the highlights of Ashforth's unique pen, featuring wide-ranging articles full of colourful characters and experiences, tales of the dead and the living, discoveries from the archives, the joys of big racedays and the pleasures of small ones.
Ashforth's Curiosities of Horseracing
A sport based on one animal sitting on top of another and trying (usually) to be the first pair to reach a wooden stick is a curiosity in itself. So it's no surprise that horseracing is full of curiosities. The curiosities in this collection have been chosen to arouse interest. They are stories of those curious creatures - people, and of horses. The curiosities are arranged in themes so that the reader can dip in and out, as the mood takes them. The collection should leave them with a benevolent view of an intriguing sport, if they didn't already have one.
Hitting the Turf
David Ashforth's life-long losing battle with bookmakers began while he was still a student at Cambridge. Hitting the Turf will appeal to anyone who has ever had a bet on a horse - and knows the agonies and ecstasies of winning and losing.
Ringers & Rascals
Chronicles Peter Christian Barrie's efforts to fool horse racing authorities by painting horses with henna dye to disguise good race horses as bad ones, fooling betters and fixing races.
Horse People
Cassidy's investigation reveals the factors--ethical, cultural, political, and economic--that have shaped the racing tradition.
Crown Jewels of Thoroughbred Racing
Includes articles about twenty five of the world's most famous racetracks, along with paintings of many of the world's most famous race horses.
Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing
The Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing offers an innovative approach to one of Britain's oldest sports. While it considers the traditional themes of gambling and breeding, and contains biographies of human personalities and equine stars, it also devotes significant space to neglected areas. Entries include: social, economic and political forces that have influenced racing controversial historical and current issues legal and illegal gambling, and racing finance the British impact on world horseracing history and heritage of horseracing links between horse racing and the arts, media and technology human and equine biographies venues associated with racing horseracing websites The Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing provides a unique source of information and will be of great interest to sports historians as well as all those whose work or leisure brings them into the world of racing.
Welfare's Forgotten Past
That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not simply local custom, but consisted of legal rights, duties and obligations that went beyond social altruism. This legal ‘truth’ is, however, still ignored or rejected by some historians, and thus ‘lost’ to social welfare policy-makers. This forgetting or minimising of a legal, enforceable right to relief has not only led to a misunderstanding of welfare’s past; it has also contributed to the stigmatisation of poverty, and the emergence and persistence of the idea that its relief is a 'gift' from the state. Documenting the history and the effects of this forgetting, whilst also providing a ‘legal’ history of welfare, Lorie Charlesworth argues that it is timely for social policy-makers and reformists – in Britain, the United States and elsewhere – to reconsider an alternative welfare model, based on the more positive, legal aspects of welfare’s 400-year legal history.
Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society
This book examines the process by which a capitalist society emerged in Bradford. Although Bradford represents an unusual social environment where industrial development began very early and proceeded very fast, its history discloses with unusual force and clarity a process that was more gradually transforming the wider society of nineteenth-century Britain and that subsequently spread throughout the world.
Women, Welfare and Local Politics, 1880-1920
Offers a reappraisal of the role of women in the politics and practice of welfare in late Victorian and early Edwardian England. Using a working diary written by the activist and female poor law guardian Mary Haslam, this book portrays Bolton women as sophisticated political operators.
