Sport Leisure and Popular Culture in Britain Since 1850 - 2010Exam - History, Study notes of History

Download Sport Leisure and Popular Culture in Britain Since 1850 - 2010Exam - History and more Study notes History in PDF only on Docsity! ARHOLIADAU 2010 EXAMINATIONS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND WELSH HISTORY MODULE HY31220 : Sport Leisure and Popular Culture in Britain Since 1850 Time allowed TWO hours Answer TWO questions 1. To what extent did urbanisation and industrialisation in the nineteenth century destroy previous forms of sporting and leisure pursuits? 2. Why had the uses that working-class people made of their leisure time become an issue of moral and political concern by the second half of the nineteenth century? 3. How did the commercialisation of leisure contribute to shaping British towns and cities in the nineteenth century? 4. Did games such as football, rugby and cricket become mass-participation sports largely due to their promotion by public school old boys? 5. Did the spread of sports to the countries of the British Empire strengthen imperial ties or weaken them? 6. How different were male and female leisure activities in modern Britain? 7. What was responsible for the changes in people’s newspaper reading habits in the period after 1890? 8. Account for the growth in the popularity of the cinema during the first half of the twentieth century. 9. Which were the most read books in the first half of the twentieth century, and why? 10. In what ways, and for what reasons, has the BBC moved away from its founding principles? 11. Has the mass media in the twentieth century reflected British sporting culture, or shaped it? Continued overleaf .......