| AUTHOR |
TITLE |
PUBLICATION |
REMARKS |
Abrahams, H.M.
|
Fifty Years of
A.A.A. Championships
|
Carborundum Co.,
Trafford Park, England, 1961
|
Brief summary of
the Championships, 1911-1961, with occasional references to walking.
|
| Allen,
G.H. |
From
Land's End
to John O'Groats, being an account of his record walk |
Fowler,
London,
England, 1905 |
Record
of the
author's 17-day achievement |
Andreotti, P.,
Frasca, A. & Salvarezza, F. *
|
Un Uomo Solo al
Comando
|
Marci Club
Centro Lazio, Rome, Italy, 2002
|
Biography of
Giuseppe Dordoni [In Italian]
|
| Angle,
B.J. |
My
sporting
memories |
R.Holden,
London,
England, 1925 |
A
chapter on the
Brighton walks by the starter at the 1903 Stock Exchange event
|
| Anon.(1)
(AlsoTT) |
The
Sport of Race
Walking |
R.W.A.,
Ruislip,
England, 1962 |
History,
technique and results. Probably edited by A.A. Harley and written by a
number of contributors. [Published price, 5/-]. |
| Anon.(3) |
Life
of Foster
Powell |
R.H.Westley,
London, England, 1793 |
|
| Anon.(6) |
Untitled |
Unpublished |
One
typescript
(undated) and two manuscripts (1955 and 27th Feb, 1969) (c. 3000 words
in total) on the history of walking in Queens Park Harriers, England.
In the possession of P.J.Cassidy |
| Anon.(8) |
Particulars
of
the late Mr.F.Powell's journey on foot, from London to York, and back
again in the year 1772 |
J.Fowler,
London,
England, 1793 |
The
round trip
was about 400miles. "This appears to be one of the earliest records of
a pedestrian performance." (TM)
|
Anon.(10) *
|
Olympia 1936 *
|
Cigaretten-Dienst Altona-Bahrenfeld, Berlin, Germany, (1936?)
|
Report on the
Olympic Games, with full results, etc. Vol.1 coverns the Winter Games
in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Vol.2 the Summer Games in Berlin. The
50k
walk is covered with a phorograph of Harold Whitlock. (Given the
situation at the time, it is remarkable that there are six photographs
of Jesse Owens, together with others of black athletes.) In German
|
Anon.(12)
|
Olympic Games
Antwerp 1920 Official Report *
|
Comité
Olympique Belge, Brussels, Belgium, 1957 (sic)
|
Includes a brief report on the walks (3000m and 10000m). The
delay in producing the report arose from the insolvency suffered by the
Organising Committee in 1920; The C.O.B. belatedly produced the Report
for the sake of completeness. In French
|
Anon.(13)
|
The Centurions A
History
|
The Centurions,
England, 2011
|
The history of
the Brotherhood, published in celebration of its centenary.
|
Astley, J.D.
|
Fifty Years of
My Life in Sport
|
Hurst &
Blackett, London, England, 1894
|
Autobiography of
the
promoter of several six-day and similar events in the late ninetheenth
century; interesting balance-sheets of the "shows", as he called them.
|
Avé, A.,
ed. *
|
Les Jeux de la
VIIIe Olympiade: Rapport Officiel
|
Comité
Olympique Français, Paris, France, 1924
|
Offical Report
on the Paris Olympic Games. Includes a report, with photographs of the
10000m walk, including the famous incident of the disqualification,
reinstatement (with the resignation of the judges) and second
disqualification of the Austrian Kuhnert. In French
|
Ayton,
M.
|
The
Star Walk: Reflections and Records 1922-2000
|
Arc
Publishing and Print,
Sheffield, England, 2008
|
History
of the Sheffield Star Walk from foundation to termination. The event is
dealt with decade by decade with many illustrations. The author was
beaten "by a nose" in 1954 in the closest-ever finish, recording the
same time as the winner.
|
Baker, K.
|
The 1908 Olympics
|
SportsBooks,
Ltd., Cheltenham, England, 2008
|
A
behind-the-scenes view of the event and some of those involved. The
list of results omits the 10 miles walk.
|
Baldini, C.E. *
|
Maratona di
marcia, appunti per una storia, 1898-2012
|
ASAI, Brescia,
Italy, 2012
|
304 richly
illustrated pages about the history of the italian 50 kms race walking
championships (first edition in 1929) and its predecessors, the
national championships of endurance race walking. (MM) In Italian
|
| Benton,
T. |
A
fine spirit: a
centenary history of Newham and Essex Beagles A.C., 1887-1987 |
The
Club, North
Weald, England, 1987 |
The
section on
race walking is by Colin Young (CG) |
Beramou,
G. *
|
La Victoire en
Marchant |
? |
Story of
Paris-Strasbourg up
to 1959. In French
|
| Bicknell,
J.L. |
A
brief
vindication of the legality of the late proceedings against George
Wilson, the Blackheath pedestrian |
W.Clarke,
London,
England, 1815 |
A
discussion of
the legal implications (TM) |
Bogatiriov, E. *
|
Vladimir
Golubnichi |
Editorial
Progreso, Moscow,
1979 |
Biography of
the multiple
Olympic medallist; in Spanish (CG) |
| Brown,
S., Editor |
Unbroken
Contact.... |
Surrey
Walking
Club, Chew Magna, England, 1999 |
Centenary
History
of the Club |
| Brown,
R., Brown,
S. et al |
Long
at the Top |
?,
England, 1994 |
Athletic
biographies of Richard and Sandra Brown |
Callow, H.A.
|
History of the
Chiipenham to Calne Road Walk
|
?, England, n.d.
(?1989)
|
Short history of
the event, illustrated.
|
| Chambers,
R., ed. |
The
Book of Days |
Chambers,
London,
England, 1863 |
Deals
with
Barclay's performances, etc. |
| Coe, S., with
Mason, N. |
The Olympians:
a century of
gold |
Pavilion,
London, England, 1996 |
Contains a
chapter on Don
Thompson. (TM) |
| Cook,
O. &
Smith, S. |
The
Saturday Book |
Hutchinson,
London, England, 1951 |
Compares
the
exploits of Gale and Barclay in some detail (TN) |
Cook, T.A.
|
The Fourth
Olympiad
|
British Olympic
Council, London, England, 1909
|
"Being the
Official Report of The Olympic Games of 1908 celebrated in London Under
the Patronage of His Most Gracious Majestry King Edward VII". The work
is as detailed as its title and contains reports of the heats and
finals of the 10 miles and 3500 metres walks.
|
| Crawley,
R.
(pseudonym of G.F.Pardon) |
Gymnastics |
London,
England,
1890 |
"....also
highlights the achievements of the great little professional walker,
Perkins...."(almost certainly the first man to walk eight miles in an
hour. (PM) |
| Cumming,
J. |
Runners and
Walkers; a
Nineteenth Century Sports Chronicle |
Regency
Gateway,
Chicago, U.S.A., 1981 |
Mentioned
without
commentary in (SS) |
| Damilano,
S. (1) |
100
Years of Race
Walking |
Graph
Art, Manta,
Italy, 2003 |
590
pages of
results from the principal international Championships, Games and Cups,
with rankings of walkers; many black and white photographs; in Italian
and English |
Damilano,
S. (2)
|
Storia
Statistica della Marcia Italiana
|
Saluzzo, 2005
|
Italian race
walking statistics up to 2005; in Italian (RD)
|
| Darwin,
B. |
The
game's
afoot!: an anthology of sports, games and the open air |
Sidgwick
and
Jackson, London, England, 1926 |
"An
anthology of
sporting prose, including....W.Thom on Captain Barclay's 1,000 mile
walk." (TM)
|
Donahoo, M.
|
History of the
Victorian Race Walking Club Incorporated
|
Victorian Race
Walking Club, ?, Australia, 2005
|
|
Dowling, G. (1)
|
The Bradford Walk 1903-2002
|
Bradford College, Bradford,
England, 2002
|
History of the Bradford & County Walking Walking
Association's Bradford Walk. The history includes all winners and
their finishing time for each decade, with photographs of local winners
with some intetesting facts about the walk and archive material. The
Author was the Secretary of Yorkshire Race Walking Club and of the
Bradford and County Walking Association. (GD)
|
Dowling,
G. (2)
|
Yorkshire
Race
Walking Club: the first seventy years |
Bradford College, Bradford, England, 1982;
second edition with additional photographs, 2007
|
An account of the history and characters of
the club since its formation at the Osborne Hotel in Bradford in 1912.
Included are mini histories of the now defunct 'Dick Hudson's' Walk and
Morecambe 20k Walk and a list of club Centurions up to that time. The Author was the Secretary of Yorkchire Race Walking Club
and of the Bradford and County Walking Association. (GD)
|
| Egan,
P. |
Sporting
Anecdotes, Original and Selected |
Sherwood,
Jones,
London, 1825 (3rd edition) |
Walking
material
includes items on Barclay, Wilson, Powell |
| Edwards,
J. |
The
First Fifty
Years |
New
South Wales
Amateur Walking Club, Australia, 1962 |
Club
history (JP) |
| Erikson,
T. |
Once
Were Walkers |
Victorian
Race
Walking Club, Pascoe Vale, Australia, 2005 |
"The
stories of
the many champion racewalkers who made Victoria their home." |
Frigerio, U. *
|
Marciando nel
Nome d'Italia
|
UTEP, Milan, 1934
|
Autobiography of
the triple Olympic Champon, including his races abroad; in Italian (MM)
|
| Gale,
W. |
Life
and
Performances of William Gale, the celebrated Cardiff pedestrian |
J.A.Brooks,
London, England, 1877 |
"Abrief
account
of the life of the dimiutive pedestrian....Gale contrasts the equally
effective modes of progression of the walkers Harry Vaughan and Billy
Howes." (TM) |
| Gilbert,
J. &
Howell, T. |
Pedestrianism:
a
correct and minute journal of the time occupied by Mr.J.Stokes, of
Bristol, during his walk of fifty miles per day for twenty successive
days at Saltford, Somerset |
Bristol,
England,
1815 |
A
brief memoir of
Mr. Stokes is prefixed (TM) |
González,
R. *
|
Autobiography
(?Title?) |
Asi
Gane,
Castillo, Mexico, 1986 |
Autobiography
of
the Mexican Olympic Champion; in Spanish |
| Goulding,
G. |
Untitled |
Unpublished |
A
book
(600pp) compiled by the Canadian winner of the 1912 Olympic 10,000m
walk (46:18·4). Held in the Weldon Library of the University of
Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada (SW) |
Guilleux,
F. *
|
Le
Sport de la
Marche en France et à travers le Monde |
Ed.
Jolibois,
Bar-le-Duc, France, 1929 |
A
history of
walking in France and other countries; in French (JP) |
Harris, N.,
Harris, H. & Marshall, P.
|
A Man in a Hurry
|
de Coubertin
Books, London, England, 2012
|
The Life and
times of Edward Payson Weston, the nineteenth-century American
pedestrian.
|
| Havell,
G. |
Essex
County
A.A.A. |
Essex
County
Amateur Athletic Association, London, England, 1983 ISBN 0 9508 732 0 0 |
Centenary
History; contains material on the County's walkers |
Hollis, R.J.
|
The History of
Track and Field Guernsey Athletics Part One 1885-1963
|
Guernsey Press
Co., Vale, Guernsey, 2000 ISBN 0-9539166-0-X
|
History of
General Athletics in the Bailiwick, with appropriate references to race
walking
|
Hollis, R.J.
& Langlois, R.
|
The History of
Track and Field Guernsey Athletics Part Two 1964-2004
|
Sarnia
Publishing, Guernsey
|
Continues the
story from Hollis and covers
the period in which walks were included in the Commonwealth Games.
|
| Huntington-Whiteley,
J. |
The
Book of
British Sporting Heroes |
National
Portrait
Gallery, London, England, 1998 ISBN 1-85514-249-X |
Accompanied
an
exhibition at the Gallery; includes early portraits of Captain Barclay,
Foster Powell and George Wilson (TM) |
| Innes,
H. W.
[Also TT] |
Race
Walking |
Ewart,
Seymour
& Co., London, England, n.d. |
"A
Primer of the
Sport" An idiosyncratic view of race walking past and (as then)
present. Apparently published in 1910. [Published price, 1/-] TM
also
describes it as "idiosyncratic" |
| Ivatt,
I. |
The
Race |
Vernon
Books,
Steyning, England, 2004 ISBN 0-9546925-0-0 |
"The
story of the
Easter Monday Walking Races in Steyning, West Sussex, England." Ian
Ivatt was (2004) the President of Steyning Athletic Club |
| Javier
Etayo, J., et al |
22a
Copa del
Mundo de Marcha de la IAAF/22nd IAAF WORLD Race Walking Cup |
R.E.A.L.
Madrid,
Spain, 2006 |
"Statistics
Handbook", including an Historical Introduction, many lists, etc. In
Spanish and English |
| Jebb,
M. |
Walkers |
Constable,
London, England, 1986 |
Covers
the
exploits of long-distance walkers from Foster Powell to Ann Sayer |
Jobin,
M. *
|
Le
Fou en Pyjama |
Libre
Expression,
Canada, 1980 |
The
autobiography
of the Canadian Olympian (SW) In French |
| Jones,
J. |
An
account of the
greatest feats of pedestrianism that have ever been performed, or the
life of James Jones |
Jones,
Oxford,
England, 1819 |
|
| Keddie,
J.W. |
Scottish
Athletics 1883-1983: the official centenary publication of the Scottish
Amateur Athletic Association |
The
Association,
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1982 ISBN 0-9508405-0-5 |
Contains
a
chapter on Race Walking in Scotland, from its earliest times
(remembering that Captain Barclay was a Scot) (PO) |
Korolyov.
G.I. *
(Also TT,M) |
Da
Zdravstvuyet
Khodyba |
Mir
Atlyetov,
Moscow, Russia,2003
ISBN 5-98489-001-1 |
"Bible
of Human
Walking" In Russian. English Language version to be published late
2004/early 2005 |
| Ladany,
S.P. |
King of the Road
|
Gefen, Jerusalem, Israel, 2008
|
Autobiography
of
the Israeli walker, including first-hand account of Munich Olympics.
(JM) Translated from the Hebrew
|
Lebon,
C. and
Libert, S. *
|
La
Légende
des 28 Heures de Roubaix |
Club
des
Marcheurs Roubaisiens, Roubaix, France, 2003 |
Issued
to mark
the fiftieth holding of the Roubaix 28 Hours; contains a description of
the previous forty-nine, with start lists and results; many
photographs. In what spirit it is intended who can say, but p.181 of
182 carries an advertisement for an undertaker! In French |
| Lennox,
W.P. (1) |
Pictures
of
Sporting Life and Character: 2 vols |
Hurst
and
Blackett, London, England, 1860 |
Vol
1 refers to
pedestrianism, dealing with Yates, Barclay and a 17-year-old Birmingham
woman who, in 1820, walked 40 miles day for six successive days. (TM)
|
| Lennox,
W.P. (2) |
Fifty
years:
biographical reminiscences: 2 vols |
Hurst
and
Blackett, London, England, 1863 |
Deals
with
Barclay, Eaton, Crisp, etc. (TM)
|
| Lennox,
W.P.
(3) |
Sport
at home and
abroad: 2 vols |
Hurst
and
Blackett, London, England, 1872 |
(TM)[TM] |
| Lennox,
W.P. (4) |
Celebrities
I
Have Known |
Hurst
and
Blackett, London, England, 1876 |
One
of the
celebrities was Catain Barclay and another was Thomas Standen. (TM)
|
Libotte,
A. *
|
La
Marcia |
Ed.Sportie
Italiane, Florence, Italy, 1964 |
General
survey,
mainly historical, for Enciclopedia dello Sport (JP) In Italian
|
| Light,
H. |
Athletics
-
Endurance, Stamina |
Manchester
Vegetarian Society, Manchester, England, 1906 |
"Lists
successes
of vegetarian walkers and runners in long distance events such as the
Outfitters London to Brighton Walk..." (TM) |
| Lovesey,
P. |
Official
Centenary History of the A.A.A. |
Guiness
Superlatives, Ltd., Enfield, England, 1979
ISBN 0 900424 95 8 |
An
entertaining
and informative work, with a chapter on race walking and full lists of
A.A.A. champions. |
Maddocks, C.
|
Money Walks
|
The Author, ?,
England, 2012
|
The
autobiography of the five-time Olympian.
|
Marshall, P.
|
King of the Peds
|
AuthorHouse UK
Ltd, Milton Keynes, England, 2008 ISBN 978-1-4343-3467-1(sc)
|
The story of
long-distance racing, matches and challenges on both sides of the
Atlantic in the 1870s and 1880s. Much detailed information on the
events and personalities involved, including several mile-by-mile and
hour-by-hour scores. An excellent work on a largely forgotten corner of
walking's history.
|
Marshall, P.
|
Weston, Weston,
Ra-Ra-Ra!
|
Author House,
Bloomington, U.S.A., 2012 ISBN 978-1-4772-1507-4
|
"A Career
Biography" of the Pedestrian Edward Payson Weston
|
Maxwell, T
|
From Tiny Acorns
Giant Oaks Will Grow: The First Hundred Years of Woodford Green
Athletic Club
|
The Club(?),
Woodford(?), 2008
|
A limited
edition of a massive work (803pp) detailing the history of what was
once one of the leading race walking clubs in England. 45pp are devoted
to walking and walkers, covering such names as Nielson, Pope, Roberts,
Cooper, Richardson, Megnin, etc.
|
Miller, F., v.le
Fort, P. and Harster, H. *
|
So kämpfte
und siegte die Jugend der Welt
|
Knorr &
Hirth, Munich, Germany, 1936
|
A memoir of the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. Miller was the
starter for the track events. A short chapter deals with the 50k walk,
a spectacular misprint giving Whitlock a winning time of
3:30:41·4, an hour short of the actual, although the correct
performance is
given in the tabulated results. Like Olympia
1936[Anon.(10)], it gives surprising prominence to the
achievements of black athletes (and the Japanese) as well as Germany's
8-1 hockey defeat by India. In German (Fraktur type.) |
| Morgan,
W.A., ed. |
The
'House' on
sport |
Gale
&
Polden, London, England, 1898 |
A
history of
sport in the Stock Exchange, London (the House); the section on race
walking is by F.A.Cohen (BF) |
| Osterhoudt,
R.G. |
A
Brief History
of Racewalking |
Osterhoudt,
1975 |
Author
was
Assoc. Prof of P.E. at University of Minnesota (JM) |
| O'Toole,
D. |
A
Walk Through
Time |
Dermot
O'Toole,
Douglas, Isle of Man, 2005 ISBN 1 873120 78 8 |
The
History of
the Isle of Man Parish Walk, from 1852, with description of each race;
many illustrations. The author's finishes in the event run into double
figures. |
| Pindar,
P. |
The
bench in an
uproar!!, or Chop-fallen magistrate: a poem |
London,
1816? |
"A
poem
occasioned by the preoceedings consequent upon the arrest by the
Greenwich magistrates of the pedestrian George Wilson....Author is
possibly C.F.Lawler" (TM) |
| Radford,
P. |
The
Celebrated
Captain Barclay |
Headline,
London,
England, 2001 |
Subtitled
"Sport,
Money and Fame in Regency Britain"
The author is the former sprinter; an excellent biography covering all
aspects of the Captain's life.
|
Rasmussen.E
and
Lassen, P. (1) [Also TT] *
|
Kapgang |
Dansk
Gangforbund, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962 |
Coaching
&
Statistics; in Danish (JP) |
Rasmussen, E.
and Lassen, P.
(2) *
|
25 År
Dansk Gangforbund,
1946-1971 |
Dansk
Gangforbund, Copenhagen,
Denmark, 1971 |
All
time
rankings; in Danish (JP) |
Redaelli,
D. and Narducci, F. *
|
Sesto San
Giovanni; una città in Marcia
|
SEP editrice,
2007
|
The first 25
years of the Sesto San Giovanni event; in Italian (RD)
|
| Roe,
W. (1) |
A
75th
Anniversary History of Ilford Athletic Club |
Ilford
Athletic
Club, Hornchurch, England, 1998 ISBN 0 9532495 0 6 |
Contains
summaries of the Club's walkers' performances |
| Roe,
W. (2) |
Front
Runners -
the first athletic track champions |
The
Book Guild,
Lewes, England, 2002 ISBN 1 85776 655 5 |
The
history
(1857-1875) of the Hackney Wick Track, with ancillary matters; one
chapter and many other references to walking. |
Roe, W. (3)
|
Jack White "The
Gateshead
Clipper"
|
The Author,
Hornchurch, England,
2007
|
A biography of
the
nineteenth-century runner and official; contains some interesting
material on long distance walks and matches at the Agricultural Hall,
London.
|
| Russell,
L.,
ed |
The
Saturday Book |
Hutchinson,
London, England, 1951 |
A
section by
O.Cook and E.Smith compares the exploits of Gale and Barclay in some
detail (TM) |
| Salvage,
J.[Also
TT] |
Race
Walk Like a
Champion- Technique, Training and History |
Walking
Promotions, Medford, NJ USA, 2004
ISBN: 0-9655328-3-6 |
Contains
material
on U.S.A. race walking history |
Sargent,
H.R.
|
Thoughts
upon
sport.... |
Photo-Prismatic,
London, England, 1894 |
Includes
an
account of the life of Captain Barclay (TM) |
Schaeffer,
R. & Hedoin, J.M. *
|
Paris
Strasbourg Colmar à la Marche de 1926 à aujord'hui
|
Cercle
des Sports de France, Paris, France, 2008
|
Illustrated
history of the celebrated long-distance race; in French.
|
| Searle,
J.D. |
On
the right
track: contemporary Chriustians in sport |
Marshall
Pickering, Basingstoke, England, 1987 |
Includes
a
chapter on Brian Adams, the English walker (TM) |
| Sedgwick,
A.H. |
Walking
Essays |
Arnold,
London,
England, 1912 |
Mentioned
in Anon.(1) A strangely rambling work about variou forms of
walking, perhaps noted most remarkably for its "Record-breaking is
ultimately a degrading and (literally) a brutalising pursuit. It is the
mere pitting of the brute animal powers against the brute inanimate
conditions of time and space." So there we are, then!
|
| Sharlott,
J. |
On
the Starting
Line a historyof Athletics in Leicester |
Leicester
City
Council, Leicester, England, 1994 |
Contains
maaterial on race walking. (TM) |
"Stonehenge" see
Walsh, J,H,
|
|
|
|
| Sweet,
W.E. |
Sport
and
Recreation in Ancient Greece |
O.U.P.,
Oxford,
England, 1987 |
Also includes some
fascinating references to
walking
(TM) |
| Taylor,
T., &
Hopkins, J. |
Race
Walking '71 |
J.A.Hopkins,
Bolton, England, 1971 |
A
review of 1970;
reference is made to future editions, which seem not to have
materialised.
|
| Thom,
W. |
Pedestrianism |
D.Chalmers
& Co., Aberdeen, Scotland, 1813 |
Mentioned
in Anon.(1), Radford Probably largely written by
Captain Barclay "Almost certainly the first book on competitive
athletics to be written in English." (TM) |
Tibballs, G.
|
The Olympics'
Strangest Moments
|
Portico, London,
England, 2012
|
On the 10,000m walk at Helsinki: "To see a male Olympic
walker in full cry is to be reminded of Barbara Windsor in a Carry On film, wiggling down the
road in a tight skirt hoping to catch Sid James's eye ." On the women's
20k at Sydney: "When a TV reporter....asked Saville what she wanted,
she answered simply: 'I'd like a gun, so I can shoot myself.' That's
how many people feel at the thought of having to watch an hour and a
half of race walking." They may also feel like that after reading such
a book.
|
| Tomlin,
S. |
Olympic
Odyssey |
Modern
Athlete
Publications, London, England, 1956 |
Contributions
by
ten Olympic Athletes, including Harold Whitlock |
| Tregurtha,
J. [Also TT] |
Race
Walking in
New Zealand |
New
Zealand Race
Walking Association, Hastings, N.Z., 2003 |
Introduction
to
technique, training principlea, history of race walking in N.Z. with
Champions, representatives, etc. |
| Waddell,
P. |
Race
Walking in
Australia: An 80 Year Histury |
P.Waddell,
Canberra, Australia, 1991 |
|
| Wallace,
G. |
Race
Walking in
America, Past and Present |
University of Texas at Austin, Austin,
U.S.A., 1989
|
|
Walsh, J.H.
("Stonehenge")
|
[Manual of]
British Rural Sports; comprising Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Fishing,
Hawking, Racing, Boating, and Pedestrianism
|
F. Warne &
Co., London, England, 1856-1888
|
[Dropped "Manual
of" from its title after 6th Edition, 1863] 35 pp (of 1012) of
the 17th edition (1888) are on "Pedestrianism, and the General
training of Man". Walsh was of the "pint of beer for breakfast"
persuasion. Amateur and professional walking and running records
correct to Ocotber 1885, are given (for walking, amateur 1 mile to 120,
professional 1 to 531).
|
| Walthen,
D.A. |
The
Big Walk |
Prentice
Hall,
London, England, 1961 |
The
story of the
Butlin Land's End to John O'Groats race of 1960 |
| Watman,
M. (1) |
All-time
Greats
of British Athletics |
SportsBooks,
Cheltenham, England 2006 |
78
brief
biographies, including Tommy Green, Ken Matthews, Paul Nihill, Don
Thompson and Harold Whitlock with their main career achievements. |
| Watman,
M. (2) |
History
of
British Athletics |
Hale,
London,
England, 1968 |
A
chapter (8
pages) on walking.
|
Watman, M. (3)
|
The Official
History of the A.A.A.
|
SportsBooks,
Cheltenham, England, 2011
|
Brings Lovesey
up to date.
|
| Watts,
R.&
Watts,K. |
The
Centurions: a
History |
The
Centurions,
London, England, 1997 |
The
Official
History |
Webster, F.A.M.
(1)
|
Athletics of
Today: History,
Development and Training
|
Frederick Warne
& Co.,
London, England, 1929
|
One chapter (8
pp) on race
walking. One of the best of authors on athletics looks at the late
19th/early 20th century.
|
Webster, F.A.M.
(2)
|
Great Moments in
Athletics
|
Country Life,
Ltd., London,
England, 1947
|
Interesting
eye-witness reports
of early Olympic walks. Photos of Larner, Goulding, Whitlock &
Fowler-Dixon, the last-named running (intentionally).
|
| Wilkinson,
H.F. |
Modern
Athletics |
The
"Field"
Office, London England, 1868 (later editions 1875,1877, 1880) |
"Finally
there is
....a section on the feats of Captain Barclay, based on Thom's work.
Essential reading." (TM) |
| Williams,
C. ed. |
The
History of
Welsh Athletics |
Dragon
Sports
Books, Wales, 2002 |
A
section on race
walking (with pen portraits) by Jack Thomas (DA) |
Williams, G.
|
Run, Rabbit,
Run, Rabbit, Run, Run, Run
|
George Williams,
Burton on Trent, England, 2010
|
Autobiography of
the member of the Lugano Cup-winning team, 1961, in which he finished
third in the 20k; he had previously been a very succesful runner.
|
| Wilson,
G. (1) |
Memoir
of the
Life and Exploits of G.Wilson |
Dean
and Munday,
London, England, 1815? |
A
general
autobiography. His attempt to walk 1000 miles in 20 days ended in his
arrest on a charge of creating a public disturbance. |
| Wilson,
G.
(2) |
A
Sketch of the
life of George Wilson the Blackheath Pedestrian who undertook to walk
one thousand miles in twenty days, but was interrrupted by a warrant
from certain magistrates of the district on the morning of the
sixteenth day, after having completed 750 miles |
The
Author,
London, England, 1815 |
A
further and
more detailed publication by the unfortunate pedestrian (TM) |
| Wilson,
G.
(3) |
The
quizzical
quorum, or, The fortunes and misfortunes of the Black Beaks of
Blackheath: a new ballad, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged showing how
they stopped a poor labouring man, named George Wilson, with a comical
warrant, whilst walking upon the King's highway |
Wm.
Hone,
London, England, 1814? |
"Possibly
written by Wilson himself" (TM) |
