TY - BOOK ID - 78140881 TI - Leisure and recreation in a Victorian mining community PY - 2005 SN - 1134249039 1280247568 9786610247561 0203002962 9780203002964 6610247560 0415356970 9780415356978 9781134248988 9781134249022 9781134249039 9780415484916 1134249020 PB - London New York, NY Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Working class KW - Miners KW - Leisure KW - Recreation KW - Manners and customs KW - Amusements KW - Community centers KW - Free time (Leisure) KW - Leisure time KW - Mineral industries KW - Commons (Social order) KW - Labor and laboring classes KW - Laboring class KW - Labouring class KW - Working classes KW - Social classes KW - Labor KW - History KW - Employees KW - Employment KW - 316.7:796 KW - 379.8 <41> KW - 796 <09> <41> KW - 316.7:796 Sociologie van de sport KW - Sociologie van de sport KW - 379.8 <41> Recreatie. Vrijetijdsbesteding. Sociaal-culturele voorzieningen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland KW - Recreatie. Vrijetijdsbesteding. Sociaal-culturele voorzieningen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland KW - 796 <09> <41> Lichamelijke opvoeding. Sport en spel--Geschiedenis van ...--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland KW - Lichamelijke opvoeding. Sport en spel--Geschiedenis van ...--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78140881 AB - 'Amusements they must have, or life would hardly be worth living...' Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 1895This text explores life in the mining villages of the north-east of England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a time of massive social and industrial change. The sporting lives of these communities are often marginalized by historians, but this thoroughly researched account reveals how play as well as work were central to the lives of the working classes.Miners contributed significantly to the economic success of the north-east during this time, yet living condi ER -