Industrial and Post Industrial

Question 1

What time period was industrial and post industrial Britain?

Answer 1

1780-1900

Question 2

What is rational recreation?

Answer 2

Sports and past times for the lower classes which were designed by the middle classes to be well ordered, organised and controlled

Question 3

What key points changed the recreation?

Answer 3

Level of Order
Logic and Structure
Ordered industrial based society

Question 4

What were the roles of the Wenlock Olympic Games?

Answer 4

• Set up to promote moral, physical and intellectual improvements (especially for lower class)
• First games were quiots, football, cricket, running etc. and celebrations were important

Question 5

What were the initial negative effects of the industrial revolution?

Answer 5

• More living in towns and cities to work at factories
• Loss of space (factories built)
• Lack of leisure time (long working hours)
• Lack of Income
• Poor health (working and living conditions + poor hygiene)

Question 6

When were (time period) the initial effects of the industrial revolution?

Answer 6

First half of the 19th century (1800s)

Question 7

What were the positive effects in the second half of the 19th century (1850-1900)?

Answer 7

• Health and hygiene improved
• Gradual increase in wages and more time
• New Middle Class (changed ways of playing sport-respect)
• Values of athleticism
• Improvements in transport and communications