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Playing Up, Playing the Game: Sport & the Eurasians of colonial Singapore

The British Empire, as it expanded across continents, brought many things in its wake – new weapons and ways of war, new methods of manufacturing, new germs, new ideas, new religion – and all were used as proof of the British Gentleman’s God-given destiny to rule the far reaches of the world. Once established, these imperial adventurers, planters and traders, soldiers and scientists, clergymen and teachers, would spend their leisure hours playing sport and relaxing in ex-pat Gentlemen’s clubs. Watching from the outside, the excluded local population looked on, intrigued at the strange combinations of claret and cricket, beer and billiards. In two talks, Josh will explore the impact of Sport as an agent of empire, as colonised communities began to play sports at school and in clubs and associations of their own. For their imperial rulers, encouraging sport was a way of getting local people to embrace imperial values, the British sense of Fair play and the importance of Playing the Game, and in doing so, understand and keep the British on top. In particular, he will explore Sport in Singapore one hundred years ago, and how the Eurasian community there embraced the Sporting Life. The Girls Sports Club was set up by a group of Eurasian women in 1930 excluded from the sporting clubs of Singapore by their race and their gender. In this second talk, Josh will look at how they challenged stereotypes and inspired new visions of the sporting life in Colonial Singapore. You can watch Part 1 of Josh’s series on YouTube now!