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 | | A growing regional consciousness helped to ensure that local sports were not completely rejected, but even by the 1930s the sporting interests of many Cumbrians were being absorbed into the northern and national pattern of sport, especially in the larger towns. |
 | | Although the appeal of `traditional' sports is often their apparent unchanging continuity in a rapidly changing world, in reality it is inevitable that presentation has to be modified to respond to the changing social, economic, and cultural expectations of the audience. |
 | | Those sports, such as coursing, wrestling, or hunting, which can be seen as `traditional' survivals have received less critical attention, although historians of leisure and sport are now increasingly aware of the adaptability of so-called `traditional' sports, and the way in which so many of their apparent traditions are of comparatively recent origin. |
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