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Introduction: Sports in the British world of the eighteenth century Caroline Bertoneche and Alexis Tadie I. Sports and Social Practices Mike Huggins Game-shooting, Associativity and English Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century Ben Jackson Game-shooting, Sociability, and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century England Marion Amblard Archery and Sociability: The Contribution of The Royal Company of Archers to Edinburgh's Social, Cultural and Artistic Life between 1775 and 1822 John Whale Pugilism, Popularity, and Cultural Appropriation in the Regency Pierre Labrune Inventing the "Noble Art": Boxing and the Taming of Violence (1740s-1790s) II. Sports, Society, and the Natural World Laurent Folliot 'The quivering Nations sport': Animal Play and Human Pastimes in Thomson's Seasons Alexis Tadie Swimming in the long eighteenth century Pauline Hortolland "Like spirit-winged chariots": Shelley and Recreational Sailing Simon Bainbridge 'A group... of apparently aerial beings': Sociability and the British Summit in the long Eighteenth Century Claire Wrobel Between Solitude and Sociability: Mountaineering in Ann Radcliffe's The romance of the Forest (1791) Meiko O'Halloran Keats among the clouds