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[Free eBook REPEAT] The First Ever English Olimpick Games by Celia Haddon [17th C Sports Event History

The First Ever English Olimpick Games by British author Celia Haddon, a journalist and former pet advice columnist for The Daily Telegraph, is a sports event history, free again for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press.

This was originally published in 2004 by Hodder & Stoughton.

This gives an account of the Jacobean era attempt to revive the ancient Greek Olympic games as a sporting celebration in the English countryside now known as the Cotswold Olimpick Games, founded by lawyer Robert Dover and sponsored by King James I, as well as its enduring legacy as a recurring event for nearly two centuries, and later revival in the 1950s.

Offered worldwide, available at Amazon.

Free for a limited time @ Amazon (should be available worldwide).

Description Sporting events unite people and can have as much a political as a competitive motivation.

This is certainly true of the ‘English Olimpick Games’, founded by Robert Dover.

The Games were first played in 1612 on a small hill in the Cotswolds in the English countryside, and stood as a testament to the ordinary people of England in their fight against the Puritan movement. The Games ran almost continuously for more than two hundred years.

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[Free eBook] The First Ever English Olimpick Games by Celia Haddon [17th C Sports Event History

The First Ever English Olimpick Games by British author Celia Haddon, a journalist and former pet advice columnist for The Daily Telegraph, is a sports event history, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press.

This was originally published in 2004 by Hodder & Stoughton.

This gives an account of the Jacobean era attempt to revive the ancient Greek Olympic games as a sporting celebration in the English countryside now known as the Cotswold Olimpick Games, founded by lawyer Robert Dover and sponsored by King James I, as well as its enduring legacy as a recurring event for nearly two centuries, and later revival in the 1950s.

Offered worldwide, available at Amazon.

Free for a limited time @ Amazon (should be available worldwide).

Description Sporting events unite people and can have as much a political as a competitive motivation.

This is certainly true of the ‘English Olimpick Games’, founded by Robert Dover.

The Games were first played in 1612 on a small hill in the Cotswolds in the English countryside, and stood as a testament to the ordinary people of England in their fight against the Puritan movement. The Games ran almost continuously for more than two hundred years.