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How do you get your clients into pole position at Silverstone? How can you book Bjorn Again for your dinner dance? How can you obtain official tickets for Wimbledon? What's the best way to set Murder Mystery Weekends? How do you get someone like Des Lynam to be guest speaker at your event? Who are the official agents at The Bells Scottish Open? The answers to these and many other questions can be found in this annual A-Z guide to corporate hospitality. It is a key reference work for the whole industry, and should be a useful aid to anyone involved in organizing and booking corporate entertainment. With over 4000 individual entries, this book gives all the comprehensive information needed to make an event run smoothly, from knowing the way into Brands Hatch to taking your clients ice-karting. The reader will not only find venue and seating plans, the location of hospitality facilities, the prime car parks, official agents, details and dates for all the most popular places such as Wimbledon, Twickenham, Lords, Cheltenham Racecourse and the London theatres, but will also find whole sections on regional and local events.All the information is laid out clearly, showing all contacts, addresses and telephone numbers. There are alphabetical and geographical indexes for easy access. All official agents and suppliers have been checked and verified by the publishers, so that organizers can be sure the information is up to date. This edition includes a new section of hundreds of unusual venues where readers can hold their special event. The entries include available numbers for participation events, dining, receptions and meetings, with numbers of bedrooms where relevant. In addition, every section of the book includes a separate calendar of its own, listing the events in that field. ... Read more

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Based on recent advice from the National Playing Fields Association, this edition assists property managers, their works service managers and their establishment works consultants in tackling responsibilities for children's play provision. The book focuses on MOD sites within the UK and overseas, and acts as one of the main publications to be used in relation to children's play provision within MOD areas. The second edition differs from the first in a number of significant ways: it replaces the criteria of a minimum area per 1000 population in favour of a walking time distance between home and three new categories of formal children's outdoor playing space, now recognized as established practice within the UK. The previous three categories of formal play areas have been superseded by three new categories with the acronyms LAPs, LEAPs and NEAPs. Whilst still based on the appropriate needs of toddler, junior and major age ranges, greater importance is placed on the degree of supervision and accessibility criteria required. The section on inspection and maintenance has been expanded. ... Read more

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From the carefree pleasure-seeking London factory girl to the overworked housewife drudge, the lives of English working-class women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were characterized by two constants: work and want. In this pathbreaking study of women's leisure and recreation from 1750 to 1914, Catriona M. Parratt explores how and to what degree women managed to carve out a sphere of pleasure for themselves within the broader context of the history of English working-class culture.

Drawing on in-depth research and a wide range of primary sources, including letters, diaries, oral accounts, and parliamentary papers, Parratt examines in vibrant detail the ways in which women used leisure to both embrace and resist gender and class hierarchies, inequities, and identities. She finds that despite the constraints of subsistence earnings, exploitative working conditions, the double burden of domestic and waged labor, sexual divisions of leisure in the family, and patriarchal ideologies about appropriate female behavior, working-class women were resolute in seeking opportunities and resources for their amusements. Whether choosing enjoyment at music hall concerts, buying hats and clothes at shopping emporiums, joining party clubs, treating one another to drinks at the pub, or playing cricket, women who worked all their lives did achieve an element of independence and moments of pleasure through an array of pastime activities.

"More Than Mere Amusement" fills a significant gap in the literature on English working-class life and provides a solid basis for further research in the emerging area of sport and cultural studies. ... Read more

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Francis Willughby's "Book of Games" should be an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in early modern social history. Dating from the 1660s, it was left unfinished when the writer died in 1672 at the age of 36. Nevertheless, Willughby's manuscript, even in its unpolished form is a goldmine of detail providing a snapshot of mid-17th century life, language and culture. The manuscript itself lists a wide variety of sports, games and pastimes, including football, hurling, card games, tennis and children's games. As well as providing rules and a description of the various games (often with accompanying sketches to explain particular points) there are numerous fascinating snippets of related information (such as the care of fighting cocks), that bring the subject to life, whilst the section on children's games is particularly poignant. Besides the intrinsic interest of the subject matter, the fact that Willughby embarked on the project from a scientific perspective adds to the value of the book. Willughby had been admitted to the Royal Society in 1661 and for a number of years prior to that had been collaborating with the naturalist John Ray.It is clear that Willughby's "Book of Games" was highly influenced by his scientific pursuits and was an extension of his natural history work, utilising the same skills of systematic observation, description and classification. Providing not only a word-for-word transcription of the "Book of Games", this volume also contains a host of interpretative material to complement the original data. As well as a biography of Willughby and a detailed description of his manuscript, a substantial glossary of games and obsolete terms is provided, together with a bibliography of Willughby's literary remains and more general reference works. Taken together, this publication provides an unparalleled resource for scholars of early modern England. ... Read more

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Leisure has increased in importance in people's daily lives through the last few decades and as an industry increasingly makes a substantial contribution to employment and the economy. Academic interest in the subject has also grown, and has attracted study from a variety of disciplines.

This book provides an essential and comprehensive introduction to the study of this important subject. The book uses an interdisciplinary approach and provides a basic conceptual framework and theoretical underpinning for leisure studies. The text is organized into two interlinked sections covering the leisure phenomenon and provision for leisure.

Key Features: A comprehensive introduction to leisure studies. Written by experienced teachers and researchers. Up-to-date case studies illustrate key concepts to aid understanding . End of chapter questions reinforce learning and test understanding . Balance between practice and theory illustrates theory in real situations. Includes chapters examining the social, economic and spatial significance of leisure and a final chapter on leisure and the future. This book is designed as an introductory text for all those studying leisure at HND and undergraduate level, whether as a major field or as an option. It would also be suitable for those needing an introduction to the subject; postgraduate conversion courses.

Chris Bull is Head of the Department of Sport Science, Tourism and Leisure at Canterbury Christ Church University College. He has over 25 years' experience in teaching leisure and tourism and has published various articles and book chapters in the field as well as undertaking significant consultancy projects.

Jayne Hoose was formerly a Senior Lecturer in Leisure and Tourism at Canterbury Christ Church University College and is now a Regional Manager in the charity sector. She has 10 years experience of teaching leisure and tourism and has published articles and book chapters on a range of topics as well as undertaking consultancy work.

Mike Weed is Lecturer in Sport and Leisure Policy and Management at Loughborough University. Previous posts include Lecturer in Sports Management at the University of North London and Director of the Research in Sports Culture (RiSC) group. He has published many respected articles and books in this field. ... Read more

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provides a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary introduction to public policy and planning in the fields of leisure and tourismcovers policy-making and planning as carried out by governments and associated agenciescontains guidelines for leisure and tourism planning, methodology and performance measurementThis book is an updated edition of Leisure Policy and Planning (Longman, 1994), now covering tourism as well as leisure and addressing such issues as citizens' rights, the implications of globalization, 'Third Way' politics and 'Best Value' developments. Topics covered include: leisure and tourism needs, rights and citizenship; political ideologies and the role of the state; the market versus the state; public policy making; leisure and tourism plans and planning; forecasting leisure and tourism demand; economic evaluation methods, performance evaluation; and planning for different sector. The book includes an extensive bibliography and questions and exercises for each chapter. ... Read more

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This important new text traces the evolution of sports development in the UK within the context of broader shifts in sport and social policy. It explores the emergence of sports development from the early years of public policy for sport in the 1960's to the present day. Incorporating original material from major case studies of four local authorities and the national governing bodies of hockey, rowing, rugby union and tennis, the book examines the reality of "doing sports development" within this changing social and political policy climate. By showing how sports development policy is made, remade and translated into practice, this book will be essential reading for any student of sport or leisure policy, and for all practicing sports development officers. ... Read more

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In Britain's history, work and leisure have always been yoked together. Until the Reformation, the working year was peppered with Saint's days and ancient pre-Christian festivals. No puritan ethic of godly work could dent the British addiction to pleasure, and even when the Industrial Revolution broke the old cycle, workers created their own festivals. Employers and moralists came to accept the need for leisure, but they preferred the chaotic, often anarchic quality of traditional pastimes which were closely linked to drunkenness and immorality. Organized sport provided spectacle, discipline and orderly participation, a perfect means of controlling men's leisure time as industrial society dominated their working hours. The control of women was achieved by other less subtle means. What began as a means of control became a source of true pleasure and delight for working men: a liberation from daily life, replete with heroes and passionate loyalties.Dennis Brailsford traces the rise and transformation of organized sport, its impact upon social patterns and gender roles, and suggests that today sport is recreating some of the social ills it was first designed to cure more than a century ago. ... Read more