'The Army Isn't All Work': Physical Culture and the Evolution of the British Army, 1860–1920Routledge, 16.03.2016 - 238 Seiten Between the Crimean War and the end of the First World War the British Army underwent a dramatic change from being an anachronistic and frequently ineffective organization to being perhaps the most professional and highly trained army in the world. Historians have tended to view that transformation through the successive political reform efforts of those years, but have largely overlooked the ways in which the Army transformed itself from within. This change was effected through the modernization of training, operational and leadership doctrines. The adoption of formal physical training and organized games played a central part in this process. With its origins in elite public schools and upper-class country homes, the Army's philosophy of Athleticism was a part of the ethos of 'muscular Christianity' widely held in contemporary British institutions. Under the potent influence of this philosophy, military sport went from a means of keeping soldiers from drink and the officers from duty, to an institutionalized form of combat training. This book documents the origins and development of formal physical training in the late Victorian Army and the ways in which the Army's gymnastic training evolved into a vital building block of the process of turning a civilian into a fighting man. It also assesses the nature and extent of British military sport, particularly regimental sports, during this period of evolution for the Army. Through an investigation of the Army's physical culture during this dynamic period, one can gain an understanding of not only how the Army's change from within occurred, but also of some of the important links between the Army and its parent society. |
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The Greater Game Army Physical Culture in Wartime | 143 |
Raise the Tone The Formation of the Army Sport Control Board | 193 |
Select Bibliography | 203 |
Index | 217 |
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Aldershot Army Council Army Gymnastic Staff Army Physical Training Army Sport Control Army’s ASCB athleticism Baden-Powell Battalion Bayonet Training Staff Britain British Army British officers British soldiers Campbell Captain Cavalry civilian combat commanders competitions course cricket Diary Edwardian period establishment Farwell fighting fitness football France games and sports Gymnasium gymnastic training History Household Brigade hunting Hussars Ibid Imperial War Museum India Indian Army Infantry Inspector of Gymnasia Institution of India instruction Ivor Maxse Kentish Kitchener's Army Late Victorian Army leadership Lieutenant Colonel London match Maxse morale Museum Archives National Army Museum native NCOs Northumberland Fusiliers Oldfield organization Physical and Bayonet physical culture Physical Training Corps played polo pre-war professional recreational training recruits Regimental Sport reported Royal sport and games Sport Control Board sports day Staff Instructors Starr Superintendents Territorial Army Tommy Atkins tournament troops United Services Institution United Services Magazine Victorian and Edwardian War Office
