On This Week – 14th November 2016
14th- On this day in 1851 Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick is published in New York (incidentally...
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Posted by Margaret Roberts | Nov 14, 2016 | This Week in Sport & Leisure History | 0
14th- On this day in 1851 Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick is published in New York (incidentally...
Read MoreIn the late nineteenth century, the middle classes assumed control of sport and their amateur...
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7th – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal is first published on this day in 1665. In...
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Although bodybuilding has become something of an outlier sport in today’s popular culture, there...
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