Sitemap and objectives

• Introduction
  • Sitemap and objectives
• History
  • Prehistory – up to 1600
  • The very early days – 1600s
  • Cricket spreads to London – 1700 – 1770
  • The Hambledon years – 1770 – 1785
  • Emergence of MCC – 1786 – 1800
• Clubs
• Grounds
  • White Conduit Fields Ground
  • The Artillery Ground
  • Broadhalfpenny Down
  • Windmill Down Cricket Ground
  • Dorset Square- the first Lord’s Ground
• Players
• Matches
• Women’s Cricket
• Library
  • Earlly writings
    • The Hambledon Men edited by E.V. Lucas
    • The Cricket Field by James Pycroft
    • The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England by Joseph Strutt
    • A Country Cricket Match
  • Poems and songs
    • In Certamen Pilae (About a ball-game)
    • Cricket, An Heroic Poem, by James Love
    • The Echoing Green by William Blake
    • Lord Byron – Childish Recollections (excerpt)
    • William Wordsworth
    • CRICKET
  • Modern histories
    • Cricket history books
    • History Of Cricket by E.W. Swanton
    • Ladybird Story of Cricket
    • Early History of Cricket – E.D.R. Edgar
• Gallery
  • Very early images
  • The Cricket Field
  • Youth and Schools
  • Other
• Miscellany
  • Evolution of stumps, bat and bowling
  • Kit and Equipment
  • Laws
  • Cricket outside England

Objectives of the site

1. To promote knowledge and understanding of the history of cricket before 1800

2. To explore the experience of playing or watching cricket in the Seventeenth Century

3. To use the functionality of the internet of a web-site to present a multi-dimensional virtual museum of Eighteenth Century cricket to allow users to explore the subject in an individual way.