5 ‘It’s Nice to Belong’:1 Boxing, Heritage and Community in London

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Sport, History and Heritage: An Investigation into the Public Representation of Sport – Editors’ General Introduction 1
6. 1 Sport, History and Imagined Pasts 9
7. 2 Discredited Class-war Fable or Priceless Promotional Asset? The Duality of Rugby Union’s William Webb Ellis Foundation Myth 19
8. 3 Cricket Writing, Heritage and Ideology 33
9. 4 Football and the Fine Arts: The Football Association Art Competition and Exhibition, 1953 45
10. 5 ‘It’s Nice to Belong’:1 Boxing, Heritage and Community in London 59
11. 6 Television and the ‘Austerity Games’: London 1948 77
12. Museums and the Representation of Sport
13. 7 Sport in Museums and Museums of Sport: An Overview 91
14. 8 The Everton Collection: Unlocking the Value of a National Football Archive 107
15. 9 Culture, Commerce, Capitalism and Commemoration: Dmitri Piterman and the Alavés Football Museum 125
16. 10 Replacing the Divots: Guarding Britain’s Golfing Heritage 147
17. 11 Upping Our Game: The New Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum 161
18. Survivals and Legacies: Sport, Heritage and Identity
19. 12 Survivals and Legacies: Sport, Heritage and Identity 181
20. 13 Anfield: Relocating Liverpool’s Spiritual Home 195
21. 14 The Canonisation of Common People: Memorialisation and Commemoration in Football 211
22. 15 Heritage, Culture and Identity: The Case of Gaelic Games 223
23. 16 Olympic Heritage – An International Legacy: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Stadium from Coubertin to 1948 235
24. 17 The Indianapolis 500: Making the Pilgrimage to the ‘Yard of Bricks’ 247
25. Afterword: History and Heritage in Sport 263
26. List of Contributors 267
27. Index 273