Horse racing was the first and longest-lasting of Britain's national sports. This book explores the cultural world of racing and its relationship with British s

English society in the eighteenth century was allegedly marked by a 'gambling mania'. Drawing on a vast range of new empirical evidence, Bob Harris explores the

Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a busines

In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of horsem

Horses and horsemen played central roles in modern European warfare from the Renaissance to the Great War of 1914-1918, not only determining victory in battle,