The Emergence of Football

Peter Swain is Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Worktown Studies at the University of Bolton, UK, and is a leading contributor to the so-called 'Origins of Football' Debate.

1. A Short History of Early Football 2. A Brief Historiography of the Industrial Revolution 3. Cultural Change: Football's Demise in the Eastern Counties Before 1830 4. Folk Mass and Festival Football: The Arguments 5. Folk, Mass and Festival Football: The Evidence 6. Cultural Continuity: Football Outside the Public Schools, 1800-1830 7. The Missing Years, 1831- 1840 8. Football in the Forties and Fifties 9. The Football Association, Sheffield and Lancashire in the Sixties 10. Class, Clubs and Football: The Unfolding Century