ABSTRACT
The theme of Cultural Change is picked up in this chapter as the demise of one form of football in the Eastern Counties, Camping, is forensically examined. In so doing, it offers an original and detailed account of its death in the first part of the nineteenth century surrounding the spatial politics of the region, enveloping the economic, social and cultural changes of the period. Many traditional recreations were embedded in a paternalistic, agrarian society, and as the Industrial Revolution broke down the traditional structures of society, so the vital supports of traditional recreations were fatally undermined, none more so than in the Eastern Counties. It also examines the atypicality of the repression of the game in Derby.
