Horse racing and British society in the long 18th century: by Mike Huggins, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2018, 326 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-78327-318-8.

Thus, for anyone interested in sporting or equestrian history, Mike Huggins' new study, I Horse Racing and British Society in the Long Eighteenth Century i , is an essential book. Horse racing as it developed three hundred years ago in England not only influenced the eighteenth-century world of politics and culture but reached forward to shape the global sport as practised today. As Huggins proves, horse racing was about more than passive masculine sociability and elite leisure; race meetings were active buzzing hives of political activity as well. [Extracted from the article]