This is the first comprehensive study of the formative period of Association Football in England, and is a valuable contribution to the history of popular culture and leisure.
Tony mason examines the origins and mid-nineteenth ...
This article offers a critical reflection of Sports Medicine. An analysis of this text provides a number of important insights into the state of sports medicine at this moment in time. First as a medical practice; second, ...
Coaches are amongst the most visible figures in sport today but little is known about the history of their profession.
This book examines the history of coaching from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century. ...
Although recent critics have taken Edna O’Brien’s work far more seriously than her early detractors, her aesthetic achievements continue to be undervalued, and a certain confusion still attends the question of precisely ...
This book focuses on the nature and extent of social change, integration and identity transformation within the Jewish community of Britain during the interwar years. It probes the notion – widely articulated by Jewish ...
Coaching has a long history in athletics, dating back to the era of professional
pedestrians such as Captain Barclay. By the early twentieth century, because
of the dominance of the amateur hegemony, the notion of ...
This conference hosted by the ICSHC at DMU celebrated the long history of the Centre's work with the Oxford DNB since the newly configured dictionary was relaunched in 1993. Looking forward past the Olympic release in 2012, ...
This article examines how the relationship between the media and football managers has evolved over the twentieth century. In particular, it argues that before the late 1960s, the print media largely shaped perceptions of ...
This chapter contextualizes the background to the violence and migration that accompanied independence and Britain’s departure from its ‘jewel in the crown’. It then discusses remembrance of these events as reflected in ...
This article examines the brief life of Middlesbrough Ironopolis Football Company Limited between its formation in 1889 and its subsequent liquidation in 1894. It was in 1889 that the membership of Middlesbrough Football ...
With a particular focus on the Olympics, the exhibition offers an introduction to how the legal profession has helped support the development and financing of sport over the years - as well as taking a look at some lawyers ...
When Panini stickers issued its first edition for the Women’s World Cup in 2011 in Germany, it was hailed by many as progress and an important innovation. Like Hope Solo appearing on Dancing with the Stars, the Panini range ...
This special issue of Sport in History presents the work of several academics who explore the literary representation of sport. The article discusses the methodology of using literature to study sport.