ASC Seminar: ‘The Englishman’s Game’. Cricket and Colonial Identity in South Africa, 1880-1910

At the dawn of the 20th Century the Colonies of South Africa were still relatively young and influenced greatly by ideas from the ‘Mother Country’. As elsewhere, sport’s imperialists viewed the spread of English games and culture an indicator of a colony’s cultural and social development. This seminar will explore the development of cricket in South Africa during this period and investigate its link to a white colonial and predominantly English identity throughout the region. Speaker: Dr Dean Allen, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town. This seminar has been organized together with the VU University Amsterdam. Please register !

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