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From Dartplayersaustralia.com:

There can be no happier man this side of the oche than BHS member Patrick Chaplin, of Maldon, Essex.

After ten years of self-funded, intensive, part-time postgraduate research, Patrick has been awarded a PhD by the Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge ? the title of his dissertation being ?DARTS IN ENGLAND 1900-1939 ? A SOCIAL HISTORY?.

Patrick?s unique thesis focuses mainly on the period 1918 to 1939 and reveals the forces that transformed the humble traditional English pub game of darts into a social phenomenon during the interwar years, forces that laid the foundations for the international sport that we all recognise today.

Patrick said, ?After ten years intensive research, I am thrilled to have gained my doctorate and made a significant contribution to the study of interwar popular culture.? Patrick?s work has been described as ?among the eminent works of pioneering scholarship in the academic history of twentieth-century leisure and sport.? Patrick added, ?I am very pleased that I have begun to establish the true heritage of the sport of darts.?

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