Title page of The Book of Sports

Title: Title page of The Book of Sports
Description: A book of activities deemed appropriate by the King to follow the Sunday church service. Used to reinstate royal authority over religious authority after Puritan efforts were made to restrict recreational events throughout England.
Creator: Adam sk~commonswiki; Barker, Robert; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
Source: Adam sk~commonswiki. Book of Sports, 1633. Wikimedia Commons. Accessed April 7, 2026. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Book_of_Sports.jpg.; Permalink
Publisher: MacEwan University Library
Date: 2010-05-18; 1633
Rights: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal
Format: JPEG; 350 x 357 pixels
Language: eng
Type: Still image
Subject: Sunday legislation; Sport; Cultural history; Early modern history; England; Leisure; Recreation; Social history; United Kingdom