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This book is the first national study of the football pools in Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on the football pools. It charts the rise of the football pools, focusing upon its rapid growth from the 1920s and its prolonged decline in British culture from the 1990s, partly as a result of the National Lottery. The book explores how this new gambling activity became a significant leisure opportunity for the working class - a way to feel that the individual skill of the punter could lead to the winning of some life-changing jackpot cheque being presented by a sporting personality of celebrity. Dominated by Littlewoods, and other large commercial companies, the weekly filling-in of the coupons was considered to be a safe form of investment, guaranteed by the integrity of the pool companies, rather than some seedy gambling operation. The Football Pools and the British Working Class looks at different elements of the football pools from what attracted people to this form of gambling to how the industry developed and adjusted to the suspension of the football fixtures in 1936, and the bad winter of 1962-3. Above all, it examines the deep hostility that surrounded the filling in of the football pools arising from the National Anti-Gambling League, religious groups, the football authorities and MPs. This book will appeal to all those interested in the history of British football and 20th century British working class culture.

The Independent Labour Party and the Great War, 1914-1918 -- Should we stay or should we go? : the Independent Labour Party and its new role, 1918-1922 -- Clifford Allen, the 'Red Clydesiders' and socialism in our time, 1922-1928 -- Conflict with the Labour Party and the Labour government, and disaffiliation, c 1928-1932 : reasoned debate or emotional suicide? -- 'The ILP flea' : the rapid demise and factionalism of the Independent Labour Party in the early and mid-1930s -- A mass of contradictions? : internationals, communism, the Labour Party -- Voice s from the ranks, making the most of both moment and form : a distillation of the essence of the cultural and political life of ILP branches, federations, divisions, and their members, 1914-1939.

"Historians of political history are fascinated by the rise and fall of political parties and, for twentieth-century Britain, most obviously the rise of the Labour Party and the decline of the Liberal Party. What is often overlooked in this political development is the work of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) which was a formative influence in the growth of the political Labour movement and its leaders in the late nineteenth century and the early to mid-twentieth century. The ILP supplied the Labour Party with some of its leading political figures, such as Ramsay MacDonald, and moved the Labour Party along the road of parliamentary socialism. However, divided over the First World War and challenged by the Labour Party becoming socialist in 1918, it had to face the fact that it was no longer the major parliamentary socialist party in Britain"--

This book examines the rapid rise and slow decline of greyhound racing in Britain, focusing on the 1920s to the 1960s. It examines the way in which the middle classes sought to ban or control a sport and gambling opportunity which became a niche part of British working-class culture.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 The Challenge of Automobility and the Response of Policing in Britain: An Overview of a New Vista -- 2 Historiography and Argument -- Part I Policing Britain c.1900-1970: Enforcing the Law on the Motorist -- 3 'An Unwanted but Necessary Task': Traffic Policing and the Enforcement of the Law, c.1900-1939 -- 4 Policing the New Age of Mass Motoring c.1940s-1970: Motor Patrolling, to Q Cars, Z Cars and Unit Beat Policing