Primary sources
Manuscript sources
NATIONAL ARCHIVES, KEW
Board of Trade BT 31/29960, BT 31/29967, BT 31/29939, BT 30016, BT 31/30184, BT 31/32853
Business BS 2/36, BS 3/26, BS 3/36
CRO 16516
Custom and Excise CUST 49/339, CUST 49/3504, CUST 49/4216, CUST 49/4251, CUST 49/4252
Home Office HO 45/14222, HO 45/14333, HO 45/14709, HO 45/15266, HO 45/15267, HO 45/15843, HO 45/15850, HO 45/15853, HO 15863, HO 45/16279, HO 45/16317, HO 45/16319, HO 45/14709, HO 45/21932, HO 45/23691, HO 45/24210, HO 45/16279, HO 186/741, HO 287/138; HO 320/64, HO 320/65, HO 335/1, HO 335/11, HO 335/29, HO 335/30, HO 335/52, HO 335/77, HO 335/81, HO 335/87, HO 335/102, HO 335/117, HO 35/229
Housing and Local Government HLG 52/1422, HLG 52/1423, HLG 52/91698, HLG 131/229, HLG 131/339
INF 9/948
LAB 2/1994
Metropolitan Police Files MEPO 2/1776, MEPOL 2/3282, MEPOL 2/3486, MEPO 2/8553
ARCHIVES
Bolton Archives ACCF/9/29, AK/6/67/9
Salford Watch Committee Report 1938–9, located in the Greater Manchester Police Museum, Newton Street, Manchester
Trades Union Congress, RB 1/10/804 files, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS, GOVERNMENT PAPERS AND REPORTS
Betting and Lotteries Act 1934
Parliamentary Debates
The Royal Commission on Lotteries and Betting (1932–33), Final Report (London: HMSO, 1933). This commission was chaired by Sir Sidney Rowlatt and is often known as the Rowlatt Commission.
Royal Commission on Betting, Lotteries and Gaming (1949–51), Final Report. This was chaired by H. Willink and is often known as the Willink Commission.
Royal Commission on Betting, Gaming and Lotteries, Report, Cmnd 8190, March 1951.
Royal Commission on Gambling (1976–78) (London: HMSO, 1978). This was chaired by Lord Rothschild and is known as the Rothschild Commission.
BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, REPORTS AND SPECIFIC ARTICLES
Ash, E., The Book of Greyhounds (London: Hutchinson, 1933).
The Associate Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare, The Welfare of Greyhounds (London: Associate Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare, 2007).
Barnes, J., Daily Mirror Greyhound Fact File (Lydney: Ringpress Books, 1988).
Carter, H., The Betting Scandal at Wembley (London: National Anti-Gambling League, 1928).
Carter, H., Facts About Greyhound Racing (London: National Anti-Gambling League, 1928).
Critchley, A. C., Critch! The Memoirs of Brigadier General A. C. Critchley (London: Hutchinson, 1961).
First (Souvenir) Issue, Craven Park Greyhound Stadium and Hull Kingston Rovers Official Year Book 1961 (Hull: Craven Park Stadium, 1961).
Glass, Rev. J., Gambling and Religion (London: Longman, Green and Co., 1924).
Green, P., The Fight against the Betting Evil: A Trumpet Call by Rev. Peter Green, Canon of Manchester, Chaplain to H. M. the King (n.d.).
The Greyhound Year Book 1933 (London: Welbecson Press, 1933).
Gulland, J., Canine Casinos (London: National Anti-Gambling League, 1928).
Hills Guide to Greyhound Racing (London: Hills, 1952/53).
Kemsley, W. F. F. and Ginsburg, D., Betting in Britain, National Survey covering 1947–50, published in 1951.
Kennedy, G. A. S., Going to the Dogs (London: National Emergency Committee of Christian Churches, 1928).
The League Against Cruel Sports, The State of Greyhound Racing in Britain: A Mandate for Change (London: The League Against Cruel Sports, 2014).
League against Cruel Sports and Grey2UK USA Worldwide, The State of Greyhound Racing in Britain: A Mandate for Change (London: League Against Cruel Sports, 2014).
MacDonald, J. R., Gambling and Citizenship (London: National Anti-Gambling League, 1905).
Mass Observation, ‘Some thoughts on greyhound racing and national unity’, File Report 1149, March 1942 (Mass Observation Archives, University of Sussex).
Mass Observation, ‘Saturday Night’, File Report 2467, April 1947 (Mass Observation Archives, University of Sussex).
Mass Observation, ‘Mass Gambling’, file report 2560, January 1948 (although often indicated as having appeared in 1947 (Mass Observation Archives, University of Sussex), Greyhound racing, pp. 111–38.
Mass Observation, ‘Dog Fever’, May 1948 (Mass Observation Archive, University of Sussex).
Paton, J. L., The Rights and Wrongs of Gambling (London: National Anti-Gambling League, n.d.).
Perkins, Rev. E. B., The Problem of Gambling (London: Epworth Press, 1919).
Perkins, Rev. E. B., Betting Facts: Being an Account on the Facts of Gambling Given in Evidence Before the Select Committee of the House of Commons Committee on Betting Duty (London: Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1925).
Rowntree, B. S., Poverty and Progress: A Second Survey of York (London: Longman, Green & Co, 1941).
Smith, A. C., Greyhound Racing and Breeding (London: Gay and Hancock Ltd., 1927).
The Times, 16 January 1923, ‘Clerkenwell Shooting Charge: Italians on Trial’.
The Times, 11 June 1926, ‘D. Sabini’s Bankruptcy: A Dismissed Libel Action’.
Zweig, F., Labour, Life and Poverty (London: Gollancz, 1948).
NEWSPAPERS
Banyan
Coventry Telegraph
Daily Express
Daily Herald
Daily Mail
[London] Evening News
The Field
Greyhound Star (online from 2015)
Guardian
John Bull
Manchester City News
Manchester Evening News
Manchester Guardian
The Morning Post
Morning Star
The [Portsmouth] News
The News Chronicle
Racing Post
Salford Daily Despatch
The Star
Sunday Times
Swindon Advertiser
The Times
The Truth
Wimbledon Stadium News Bulletin
Secondary sources
Books
Bailey, P. C., Music Hall: The Business of Pleasure (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1981).
Beaven, B., Leisure, Citizenship and Working-Class Men in Britain, 1850–1945 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004).
Belton, B., When West Ham went to the Dogs (Stroud: Tempus, 2002).
Best, G., Mid-Victorian Britain 1851–1875 (London: Littlehampton Book Service, 1971).
Chinn, C., Better Betting with a Decent Feller: A Social History of Bookmaking (London: Aurum, 2004 edition).
Chinn, C., The Real Peaky Blinders, Billy Kimber, the Birmingham Gang and the Racecourse Wars of the 1920s (Birmingham: Brewin Books, 2014).
Clapson, M., A Bit of a Flutter: Popular Gambling and English Society c. 1831–1961 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992).
Cunningham, H., Leisure in the Industrial Revolution (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1980).
Davies, A., Leisure, Gender and Poverty: Working-Class Culture in Salford and Manchester 1990–1939 (Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1992).
Davies, A, and Fielding, S. (eds), Workers’ Worlds: Culture and Communities in Manchester and Salford 1880–1939 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992).
Dixon, D, From Prohibition to Regulation: Bookmaking, Anti-Gambling and the Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).
Genders, R., The Encyclopaedia of Greyhound Racing (London: Pelham Books, 1990).
Gutzke, D. W. and Law, M. J., The Roadhouse Comes to Britain: Drinking, Driving and Dancing, 1925–1955 (London: Bloomsbury, 2017).
Hill, J., Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth Century Britain (London: Palgrave, 2001).
Huggins, M. and Williams, J., Sport and the English Between the Wars (London: Routledge, 2006).
Jones, S. G., Sport, Politics and the Working Classes (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992).
Jones, S. G., Workers at Play: A Social and Economic History of Leisure1918–1939 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986).
Joyce, P. (ed.), The Historical Meaning of Work (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Joyce, P., Vision of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Joyce, P., Work, Society and Politics: The Culture of the Factory in Late Victorian Britain (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1980).
Kroes, R., Rydall, R. and Bosscher, D. (eds), Cultural Transmissions and Receptions: American Mass Culture in Europe (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1993).
Lawrence, J., Speaking for the People: Party, Language and Popular Politics in England, 1867–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Laybourn, K., Working-Class Gambling in Britain, c 1906–1860s: The Stages of the Political Debate (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 2007).
Laybourn, K. with Taylor, D., The Battle for the Roads of Britain: Police, Motorists and the Law, c. 1890–1970 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015).
Laybourn, K. and Taylor, D., Policing in England and Wales, 1918–1939: The Fed, Flying Squads and Forensics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Linnane, F., London Underworld (London: Robson Books, 2004).
MacDonald, B., Gangs of London (London: Milo, 2010).
McConville, M. and Wilson, C. (eds), Handbook of Criminal Justice Process (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
McKay, G. (ed.), Yankee Go Home (and Take Me with U): Americanization and Popular Culture (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997).
McKibbin, R., Classes and Culture in England 1918–1951 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Miers, D., Regulating Commercial Gambling: Past, Present and Future (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Morton, J. and Parker, G., Gangland Bosses (London: Time Warner, 2005).
Reiner, R., The Politics of the Police, 4th edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Reith, G., The Age of Chance: Gambling and Western Culture: Gambling in Western Culture (London: Routledge, 2002).
Rowntree, B. S. and Lavers, G. R., English Life and Leisure (London: Longman, Green & Co., 1951).
Savage, M. A. and Miles, A., The Remaking of the British Working Class, 1850 to 1940 (London: Routledge, 1994; also second edition London: Routledge, 2017).
Slater, D. and Taylor, P. J. (eds), The American Century: Consensus and Coercion in the Projection of American Power (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999).
Stevenson, J., British Society 1914–1945 (London: Penguin, 1984).
Vamplew, W., The Turf: A Social and Economic History of Horseracing (London: Allen Lane, 1976; second edition 2016).
Zweig, F., The British Worker (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952).
Zweig, F., Labour, Life and Poverty (London: Gollancz, 1949).
Book chapters
Gatrell, V. A. C., ‘Crime, Prevention and the Policeman-State’, in F. M. L. Thompson (ed.), The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750–1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Jones, S., ‘Working-Class Sport in Manchester between the Wars’, in R. Holt (ed.), Sport and the Working-Class in Modern Britain (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990).
Reiner, R., ‘The Organisation and Accountability of the Police’ in M. McConville and C. Wilson (eds), Handbook of Criminal Justice Process (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
Taylor, M., ‘Mass Observation, Sport and the Second World War’, in R. Snape and H. Pussard (eds), Recording Leisure Lives: Sports, Games and Pastimes in C 20th Britain (Eastbourne: LSA Publications, 2010).
Articles and conference papers
Bailey, P., ‘Leisure, Culture and the Historian: Reviewing the First Generation of Leisure Historiography in Britain’, Leisure Studies, 8.2 (1989), 107–27.
Baker, N. ‘Going to the Dogs – Hostility to Greyhound Racing in Britain: Puritanism, Socialism and Pragmatism’, Journal of Sports History, 23 (1996), 97–119.
Cronin, M., ‘Arthur Elvin and the Dogs of Wembley’, Sports Historian, 22 (2002), 100–14.
Dimont, C., ‘Going to the Dogs’, New Statesman, 30 November 1946.
Farmer, R., ‘“All Work and No Play”: British Leisure Culture and the 1947 Fuel Crisis’, Contemporary British History, 27 (2013), 22–43.
Griffin, C., ‘Going to the Dogs: Some Further Evidence’, Journal of Sports History, 25 (1998), 601–4.
Guardian, 20 July 2002, ‘In Praise of Brighton Rock’.
Huggins, M., ‘Betting Sport and the British, 1918–1939’, Journal of Social History, 41.2 (2007), 283–306.
Huggins, M., ‘“Everybody’s Going to the Dogs”? The Middle Classes and Greyhound Racing in Britain between the Wars’, Journal of Sport History, 34.1 (Spring 2007), 97–120.
Lawrence, J., ‘The British Sense of Class’, Journal of Contemporary History, 35 (2000), 307–18.
Laybourn, K., ‘“King Solomon’s mines cannot compare with the money raked in by greyhound racing”: Greyhound Racing and its Critics and the Working Class c. 1926–1951’, Labor History, 5 (October/November 2014), 607–21.
Leeworthy, D., ‘A Diversion from the New Leisure: Greyhound Racing, Working-Class Culture and the Politics of Unemployment in Inter-War South Wales’, Sport in History, 32.1 (2012), 53–73.
McKibbin, R., ‘Working-Class Gambling in Britain 1880–1939’, Past & Present, 82.1 (1979), 147–78.
Rose, S. O., ‘Sex, Citizenships and the Nation in World War II in Britain’, American Historical Review, 103 (1998), 1147–76.
Taylor, M., ‘Mass-Observation, Sport and the Second World War’, recording of paper at the Conference of Leisure Studies Association Conference, University of Bolton, 7 April 2009.
Taylor, M., ‘Sport and Civilian Morale in the Second World War’, Journal of Contemporary History (2017), 1–24.
Taylor, M. ‘Sport and Civilian Morale in Second World War Britain’. Paper delivered at IHR ‘Leisure and Sport History’ seminar series, 3 October 2011.
Unpublished dissertations, theses and other works
Foley, K., ‘Going to the Dogs: A Social History of Greyhound Racing 1926–1960’, unpublished MA thesis, Lancaster University, 1998
Indecom International Consultants (2014) Review of certain matters relating to Boarding kennels, submitted to the Department for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. http://tinyunl.com/kenuk8n.
Trippier, C., ‘Albion Stadium, Salford’, MA at the University of Salford in 2013.
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