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Carter, Neil (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012)

What role does sports medicine play in today's society? Is it solely about treating sports injuries? Should it only be concerned with elite sport? This book provides a history of the relationship between sport, medicine ...

Introduction: Medicine, Sport and the Body: A Historical Perspective

Carter, Neil (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012)

Sport and British Jewry: integration, ethnicity and anti-semitism, 1890-1970 (Paperback version)

Dee, David Gareth (Manchester University Press, 2014-11-01)

Sport and British Jewry, available at last in paperback, provides the first wide-ranging examination of the importance of sport in the history of the British-Jewish community. Covering the period from 1890 through to 1970, ...

Sport as Medicine

Carter, Neil (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012)

Learning disability, sport and legacy.

Barton, Susan; Carter, Neil; Holt, Richard; Williams, John (De Montfort University, 2011-06)

This report examines the holding of the Special Olympics Great Britain (SOGB) National Summer Games – for people with learning disabilities – in Leicester in July 2009. For the first time, the views of the organisers, the ...

Introduction: The Empire and Commonwealth Games and the Challenge of History

Polley, Martin (Taylor & Francis, 2014)

This is the introduction to a special issue of the journal Sport in Histiry, dedicated to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games. It provides a survey of the event's history and historiography, raises critical questions ...

Mick McManus

Polley, Martin (Oxford University Press, 2017)

A biography of the British wrestler Mick McManus (1921-2013) for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Denazification, Democratization, and the Cold War: Diplomatic Manipulation of the German Olympic Committee

Dichter, Heather L. (University of Arkansas Press, 2018)

The western Allies paid careful attention to the re-formation of athletic clubs in occupied Germany as part of the policies of using sport as a way to help with the democratization process after the Second World War. The ...