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Sporting events unite people and can have as much a political as a competitive motivation. This is certainly true of the ‘English Olimpick Games’, founded by Robert Dover. The Games were first played in 1612 on a small hill in the Cotswolds in the English countryside, and stood as a testament to the ordinary people of England in their fight against the Puritan movement. The Games ran almost continuously for more than two hundred years. Celia Haddon vividly captures the intensity and enthusiasm of those involved and how the camaraderie of sporting competition united an entire region at a time when division within England was gathering momentum and the seeds of civil war were being sown. Revived in the 1960s, the games are still immensely popular today and draw thousands to the original Dover Hill even year. The story also includes contemporary poetry in honour of the Games’ founder. The First Ever English Olimpick Games is a fascinating history of one of the most interesting, but quirky, events of the seventeenth century. Celia Haddon is a best-selling anthologist whose books have sold well over 1,000,000 copies worldwide. She was formerly the Daily Telegraph’s ‘pet columnist’ and agony aunt, and has written many books about domestic pets. She has also compiled the best-selling One Hundred Ways range. Celia answers cat care questions in Your Cat magazine and can be found on David the Dogman’s programme on Talk Radio Europe – most Saturdays at 10.00am CET. She works as a cat behaviour counsellor in the Oxfordshire area and runs the website www.catexpert.co.uk.