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Books
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- Andrew Davies, Leisure, gender and poverty: working-class culture in Salford and Manchester, 1900–1939, Open University Press, Buckingham, 1992
- Thomas R. Ellison, The art of rugby football, with hints and instructions on every point of the game, Geddis and Blomfield, Wellington, 1902
- Thomas Eyton, Rugby football (past and present) and the tour of the Native team, William Hart, Palmerston North, 1896
- Geoff Fougere, ‘Sport, Culture and Identity: The Case of Rugby Football’, in David Novitz and Bill Willmott (eds), Culture and identity in New Zealand, GP Books, Wellington, 1989
- Richard Holt, Sport and the British: a modern history, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989
- Irwin Hunter, New Zealand rugby football: some hints and criticisms, 2nd edition, Whitcombe and Tombs, Auckland, c. 1929
- John Mulvaney, Cricket walkabout: the Australian Aboriginal cricketers on tour 1867–8, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1967
- Ron Palenski, Our national game: a celebration of 100 Years of NZ rugby, Moa Beckett, Glenfield, 1992
- Jock Phillips, A man’s country? the image of the Pakeha male: a history, Penguin, Auckland, 1987
- Greg Ryan, Forerunners of the All Blacks: the 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, 1993
- Brian Stoddart, ‘Sport, Cultural Imperialism, and Colonial Response in the British Empire’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 30, no. 4, October 1988
- Arthur C. Swan, History of New Zealand rugby football 1870–1945, A.H. and A.W. Reed, Wellington, 1948
- Colin Tatz, Aborigines in sport, ASSH Studies in Sport, no. 3, Australian Society for Sports History, Adelaide, 1987
