2. LO 1 – Understand how the development of sport has
influenced how it is organised.
P1 – Describe the development and organisation of
sport from its pre-industrial origins to the present day.
M1 – Explain the development and organisation of
sport from its pre-industrial origins to the present day.
3. Quick Quiz
What do you remember about the
Mediaeval England?
6. Henry Tudor’s victory signalled the end of the middle
ages, and started a period known as the:
Renaissance (1485-1640)
Tudor s reigned from 1485-1617, when the Stuarts
commenced.
England was largely agricultural and rural
London was the only recognised city – population:
300,000
10% of people lived in towns
Main source of income was farming
7. Henry VIII (1509-47)
the best known king
of this period
developed cultural
and sporting
interests during a
time of great
prosperity
8. Sport was used to maintain the distance between social
groups
Upper class: Peasants:
9. Sport was used to maintain the distance between social
groups
Upper class
Used sports to prepare
for war and sharpen
combat skills
1. Hunted on private land
2. Red Deer, Boar and Hares
3. Other activities, such as
hawking and jousting
Peasants
Serviced the upper class
but played their own
sports
1. Characterised by high
levels of violence
10. Research
What happened when James I came to the throne?
How did it affect society?
How did Charles II influence the development of
sport? And why?
11. 1603 – Heralded the reign of the Stuarts.
1617 – Issued the ‘Book of Sports’.
Book of Sport – Encouraged sport as long as it didn’t affect
attendance at church.
Development of Puritanism under influential leaders such
as: Oliver Cromwell.
Puritans opposed:
– opposed playing sports on Sunday
– cruelty to animals
– Heavy drinking
– Foul language and blasphemy
Charles II and the Restoration – sports began to flourish
14. Change – In how people earned their living.
Movement – From spacious countryside to cramped urban
living.
Decline – in farming
Growth – In production of consumer goods
Factories – offered better wages and promised a better
standard of living.
