Tennis in an English garden party: Wimbledon, Englishness and British sporting culture

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Author (aut): Lake, Robert J.
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2021
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Presentation at the www.nasss.org/conference/2015-conference/">North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) 36th Annual Conference: Sports at/on the Borderlands: Translations, Transitions, and Transgressions, November 4-7, 2015, Santa Fe, New Mexico.


Aim of the presentation was to analyze the often contradictory social constructions of English and British national identities in tennis, particularly focused on Wimbledon and the All England Lawn Tennis Club.
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Wimbledon Championships--Social aspects--History
All England Lawn-Tennis Club--Social aspects--History
Tennis--Tournaments--Social aspects--England--Wimbledon
Nationalism and sports--Great Britain
National characteristics, British
Tennis players--Great Britain--Public opinion
Athletes in mass media
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Lake, Robert J. “Tennis in an English garden party: Wimbledon, Englishness and British sporting culture”. Conferences. DC Faculty Research & Scholarship. https://dc.arcabc.ca/dc-faculty-research-scholarship/tennis-english-garden-party-wimbledon-englishness-and-british.

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