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Prince Philip, president of the National Playing Fields Association, led its silver jubilee appeal with the slogan, “The Battle for Recovery will be won on the Playing Fields of Britain.” Linking the association’s postwar relaunch with Britain’s recovery, the prince referred to the well-known adage that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. In his first speech as president, Prince Philip maintained that playing fields could do a “great deal” to teach young people to become “well-balanced citizens” who were “mentally” and “physically” able “for the tasks they will be called upon to perform.”1
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Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, “Keep Fit and Play the Game: George VI, Outdoor Recreation and Social Cohesion in Interwar Britain,” Social and Cultural History 11:1 (2014), 111–29.
Frank Prochaska, Royal Bounty: The Making of a Welfare Monarchy (New Haven and London, 1995), xi–xii. For an overview of recent scholarship on the monarchy,
see Andrzej Olechnowicz, “Historians and the Modern British Monarchy,” in Andrzej Olechnowicz (ed.), The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1870 to the Present (Cambridge, 2007), 6–44.
See Melanie Oppenheimer and Nicholas Deakin (eds.), Beveridge and Voluntary Action in Britain and the Wider British World (Manchester, 2011).
John Hunt, The Ascent of Everest (London, 1953), vii, foreword by Prince Philip; James Morris, Coronation Everest (London, 1958).
David Cannadine, History in Our Time (New Haven and London, 1998), 65–6. For a more nuanced reading of the gendered meaning of constitutional monarchy, see Clarissa Campbell Orr, “The Feminization of the Monarchy 1780–1910: Royal Masculinity and Female Empowerment,” in Olechnowicz, Monarchy, 76–107.
Sonya O. Rose, Which People’s War: National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain 1939–1945 (Oxford, 2003), 196.
On masculinity see John Tosh, “What Should Historians do with Masculinity? Reflections on Nineteenth Century Britain,” History Workshop 38 (Autumn 1994), 179–202;
Martin Francis, “The Domestication of the Male? Recent Research on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Masculinity,” Historical Journal 45:3 (2002), 637–52.
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Penny Tinkler, “Youth,” in Francesca Carnevali and Julie-Marie Strange (eds.), Twentieth-Century Britain: Economic, Cultural and Social Change (Harlow, 2007), 214–30.
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See also Denis Judd, Prince Philip: A Biography (London, 1980).
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Tom Harrisson, Britain Revisited (London, 1961), 250.
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Leonard M. Harris, Long to Reign Over Us? The Status of the Royal Family in the Sixties (London, 1966), 96, 98–100.
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Campbell Stuart, Memorial to a King (London, 1954), 64, 87.
For a recent account, see Sandra Trudgen Dawson, Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain: Packaging Pleasure (Manchester, 2011).
The council was originally called “Central Council of Recreative Physical Training,” see Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Managing the Body: Beauty, Health and Fitness in Britain, 1880–1939 (Oxford, 2010), 310, 314;
H. Justin Evans, Service to Sport: The Story of the CCPR, 1935–1972 (London, 1974), 25–34, 78–9.
Hunt resigned from the army to take on this position, see John Hunt, Life Is Meeting (London, 1978), 131–2.
David Wainwright, Youth in Action: The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, 1956–1966 (London, 1966), 19, see 13–23, 123–5 for an overview of the scheme in the mid-1960s.
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Hermann Röhrs and H. Tunstall-Behrens, Kurt Hahn (London, 1970), xix–xxi;
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David James (ed.), Outward Bound (London, 1957);
Mark Freeman, “From ‘Character-training’ to ‘Personal Growth: The Early History of Outward Bound 1941–1965,” History of Education 40:1 (2011), 21–43.
King George’s Jubilee Trust, Citizens of Tomorrow: A Study of the Influences Affecting the Upbringing of Young People (London, 1955).
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Zweiniger-Bargielowska, I. (2014). Prince Philip: Sportsman and Youth Leader. In: Beem, C., Taylor, M. (eds) The Man behind the Queen. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137448354_15
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