Rugby World Cup final a reminder of a sport where ‘the past isn’t over’

Leading rugby historian explains why he studies a game ‘vital in creation of a British sense of masculine identity’

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October 29, 2015
Last updated
February 16, 2017
John Morgan
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Print headline: Expect some top-class rugby – and working-class, too

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#1 Submitted by bethano76_241867 on October 30, 2015 - 5:31pm
I'm assuming the research is based on rugby in England? Certainly in the industrial valleys of Wales where I am from, Rugby Union is very much a working class sport as well.
#2 Submitted by VictoriaDawson on November 11, 2015 - 3:40pm
No. Professor Collins' "The Oval World" is a global history of rugby and his previous publications, "Rugby's Great Split", " Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain" and "A Social History of English Rugby Union" have all discussed the social history of rugby in Wales.

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