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England ~ General A 134 - 143 134 Women and sport / Anne Coates. Hove: Wayland, 1989. 48p; illus; index ISBN: 1-85210-392-2 BL:YK.1990.b.4586 Athletics featurevsery strongly in this outline history of women's sport fr1om540 aimed atyoung student readership. Profiles of Mary Peters and Fatima Whitbread are included, as are several archival photographs (froMmary Lines in 1921). 135 Women insport; issues and controversies / edbiyted Greta L. Cohen; foreword by JacJokyiener-Kersee. London; Sage, 1993. xix, 338p; illus; index ISBN: 0-8039-4979-0 (cased) • 0-8039-4980-4 (pbk) BL:YK.1993.b.13155 136 Their dayin the sun: women of the 1932 Olymp/ics Doris H. Pieroth. London: University of Washington Press, 1996. xii, 186p; illusi;ndex Bibliographyp: i 76-179 ISBN: 0-295-97553-9 (cased) • 0-295-97554-7 (pbk) BL: 97/03288 Interviews with eleven of the women athletes, swimmers and fencers who representhede USA. 137 From Sophieto Sonia; a history of women's athlet/ics Noel Henry. Greystones, Co. Wicklow: NHoenl ry, 1998. 207p; illus; pbk ISBN: 0-9532971-0-1 BL: YK.1999.a.9180 138 Early women's athletics; statistics and his/toryEric L. Cowe. Bingley: The author, 1999. vi, 159p; illus; pbk ISBN: 0-9537030-0-2 An account oBf ritish women's athleticsbefore 1921. Includes: all-timelists as at the end of 1920; British women's year lists 1921-1930, including seasonal reviews and results of WAAA Championships (from 1923); Women's Inter-Varsity Athletic Sports 1921- 30, including brief biographical notes on selected student athletes; British progression li ts to thened of 1930, for both seniors and juniors; results of international matches in Europe 1921-1926. Also included is a concise biography ofSophie Eliott-Lynn and a contribution by Jonn Brant on early Irish women's athletics. This work can, despite some imperfections, be considered as one of the most important tohave appeared in the latterhalf of the twentieth century. 139 'A proper spectacle': women Olympians 1900-1936 / Stephanie Daniels & Anita Tedder; foreword by Paula Radcliffe. Houghton Conquest: ZeNaNA, 2000. 163p; illus; index; pbk ISBN: 0-9537645-0-8 BL: YK.2000 .a .6396 Based on personal memoirs andinterviews, thisis a valuable record of thweomen pioneers itnhe Olympics. • Additional References 140 'Tripping daintily into the arena': a social history of English women's athletics 1921-1960 / L. Robinson. Warwick University, 1996. PhD thesis. Seeks to demonstrate that women's athletics was a thriving sport intheearly part of thlaest century, with greater male support thparenviously supposed. 141 A new dawn rising; an empirical and social study concerning the emergence and development of English women's athletics until 1980 / GregPo.rMy oon. Surrey University, 1997. PhD thesis. England ~ General 142 The KingsMajesties declaration to his subjects, concerning lawfull sports to bee used. IssbuyedKing James, 24 May, 1618. London; 1618. 9p BL: C.25.f.l0 143 Glig-Gamena Angel-Deod, orT.he sports and pasdmes of the people of England, including the rural and domestic recreations. May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to thperesent time, illustrated by engravings selected from anciepnat intings / Joseph Strutt. LondonJ:. White, 1801. 301p; illus BL; 7915.k.9 The standard work of reference on the ancient and medieval history ofsport iEn ngland. 'Ruralexercises generally practised' (Book II, chapter 1!) gives early [ 1 5 J