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Who am I?
A historian interested in the ‘cultural war’ over the legitimate form, function and meaning of sport, it is strange to look back and consider how ignorant I was of the class and cultural Dynamics that shaped Cricket in England until I began studying sport in my early thirties. Why, for instance, was English Cricket ‘posh’ when compared to Australia? And why, within England, did the North and South have completely different Cricket cultures and regional identities? These were questions I began to address in earnest and, a short twenty years later, I believe I finally have the answers. I could not have done it without these books. Enjoy!
I wrote …
Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket
By Duncan Stone
What is my book about?
In 1963, the West Indian Marxist CLR James (see below) posed a deceptively benign question: ‘What do they know of Cricket, who only Cricket know?’ A challenge to the public to re-consider the culture and meaning of Cricket, my book suggests there is still a great deal to learn about the game and its development in England.
This remains the case because the Orthodox history of English Cricket has been written from an Elitist ‘top-down’ perspective. Therefore, in the spirit of EP Thompson, Different Class examines the game from the ‘bottom-up’. And, in doing so, it reveals more about the (un) changing nature of English society – and how it works – than any study of the so-called ‘first-class’ (professional) game ever could.
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