Jeremy Lonsdale

This episode Geoff talks to Jeremy Lonsdale about his latest work on Yorkshire cricket history, 'A Game Emerging: Yorkshire before the coming of the All England Eleven'. The book tells the story of Yorkshire cricket from c. 1750 to the 1840s and in their conversation Geoff and Jeremy discuss the way in which cricket fitted into wider societal change in the county in the 19th Century. Jeremy also discusses his forthcoming book on the MCC's tour of India in 1926/7 led by Arthur Gilligan.

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