Abstract

This article presents a single case study in the context of an exploration of social and culture change and the major influences affecting patterns of working-class culture in interwar and postwar Britain. The case study is of knur-and-spell, a from of working-class sport (also known as tipping or poor mans golf) in the northwest region of England. The study draws upon newspaper and oral sources. It is presented as evidence of the unevenness of cultural change, and so in one sense as a challenge to overgeneralized conceptions and theories of social and cultural change. The case study is also a reminder that mainstream and dominant understandings of sport may in themselves be merely partial contributions toward any truly comprehensive history and sociology of ludic culture. Verf.-Referat