This article addresses the OCR (A2 G453 Option A1: Historical studies) specification. It focuses on one of the case studies, in particular ‘real tennis as an exclusive, elitist pre-industrial activity; tennis and other striking games in public schools: (fives, racquets, squash) their status and organisation; lawn tennis as a middle class invention; tennis as a social occasion and as a vehicle for the emancipation of women and their participation in sport’.
Not all sports were forged during the Industrial Revolution. Cricket had rules in 1744, there was a governing body for horse racing by 1750 and boxing was codified under Broughton’s rules by 1743. These are examples of pre-modern sports.
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