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Standing on Honeyball’s Shoulders: A History of Independent Women’s Football Clubs in England

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In 1951, the editors of a volume called Sport for Girls published the results of a survey of 4238 young female readers in the United Kingdom. Aged between 11 and 18 years, those surveyed were asked which hobbies they preferred. 1 Of the respondents, 96 % said that they were interested in sport, leaving 3.2 % to declare no enthusiasm and the small remainder undecided. Without giving too much significance to the findings therefore, sport generally compared favourably with other hobbies such as reading (50 %) and dancing (36 %).

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Williams, J. (2017). Standing on Honeyball’s Shoulders: A History of Independent Women’s Football Clubs in England. In: Elsey, B., Pugliese, S. (eds) Football and the Boundaries of History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95006-5_12

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