Sport in History
By British Society of Sports History
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The Sport in History Podcast brings you the latest research with interviews and talks with leading sports historians and up-and-coming researchers into Sports History. The podcast is a British Society of Sports History (BSSH) production from the UK's leading society for the history of sport.. You can find us on all social media platforms and major podcast platforms here.
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Atlanta Tsiaoukkas on The Schoolgirl Sporting Heroines of Early Twentieth-Century Girls’ Fiction
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Alan Lau From the Frank Soo Foundation
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Tony Collins on Roy Francis: Rugby's forgotten black leader
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Rewriting Sport and the British: A discussion on the revised edition of Richard Holt's Sport & the British
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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30 Years of Sports History at De Montfort University Roundtable
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Matthew Brown on Sports History in South America
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Tamsin Johnson on Cycling Women and Visions of Modernity & Femininity in British Visual Culture (1880-1939)
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Ben Robinson on Notts County and the "most audacious fraud in Sport"
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Noemi Steuerwald on Equestrian Sport as a Symbol of Power & Exclusion in the Victorian Era
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Katharine Worth on nationalism in British motor racing since 1894
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May 21, 2025 |
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Dan Covell on Jack Langer and Yale University versus the National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Arran Hicks on Arsenal, Wolves, and the Eastern Bloc, 1954-55
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Raf Nicholson in Conversation with Beth Barrett-Wild and Claire Taylor on the future of Women's Cricket
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Emily Calcraft on Pacifism, Non-Violence and Sport in Inter-War Britain
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Colin Yates on Sport and "Art as a Message"
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Peter Mason on Sir Clyde Walcott
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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The treatment of sports injuries in the Republic of Ireland, 1950-2010: A History
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Matt McDowell on Surfing & Modernity in the North of Scotland
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Abhinava Srivastava on Enacting ‘speed’ as Samman (honour): Fast bowling and sporting masculinity in Contemporary India
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Michael Crawley on Myth, Reality and the Articulation of Sport and Society in Ethiopian Running
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Alex Jackson on “Goals and their meaning”: The meaning of one wartime game. Or: Stoke 16 Blackburn Rovers 0
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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David Horspool at Chalke History Festival
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Seth Tannenbaum on The Historical Marginalization of Black Fans at Major League Baseball Games
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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‘Don’t worry!’: Sam Oldfield on The rise of netball and international governance 1926-1963
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May 14, 2024 |
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How cricketers navigate class connotations of traditional cricket kit relating to identity & place
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Michael Connolly on Brother Walfrid and the foundation of Celtic Football Club
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Cricket Research Network 2024 Round Table
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Dave Day and Female Teachers of PE in Interwar Britain
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Max Ferrer on Global Barça and Consumable Catalan Culture
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Clem Seecharan in conversation with David Woodhouse
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Matt Taylor on Barbara Buttrick
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Roy Thompson on Football and Emotion
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Souvik Naha and Postcolonial Cricket
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Jeremy Lonsdale and MCC in India 1926-27
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Heather Dichter and Sport and Soft Power
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Thomas Campbell - The Miners' Strike and 80s Football Violence
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Turlough O'Riordan, Terry Clavin and Carol Osborne on Irish Sporting Lives
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Roger Domeneghetti and sport in the 80s
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May 25, 2023 |
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Conor Heffernan on US Women's Weightlifting in the 80s
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May 16, 2023 |
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Ben Duncan-Jones on Boxing
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Andy Carter - Victorians and sport in the classical world
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Katie Holmes on Women's Running
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Dr. Michael Connolly on Brother Walfrid
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Alec Hurley - Sport and microhistory in Rochester, NY
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Jeremy Lonsdale
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Rob Colls and the Fight of the Century
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Eric Blakely on the 1908 Olympics
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Oliver Knabe and Alan McDougall on Football Nation
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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David Woodhouse - Cricket in the West Indies in 1953:54
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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Max Portman on West Ham and the Olympic Stadium
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Rich Parry - Swallows and Hawk
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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David Patrick on Ted Carroll, Boxing Journalist Extraorindaire
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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Ram Guha Keynote at BSSH Conference '22 - The Accidental Sports Historian
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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BSSH Anniversary Keynote: Professor Richard Holt and the Development of British Sport History
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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BSSH 40th Anniversary Podcast: Mike Cronin and Irish Sport History
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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Paul Hawkins, English Isolation and the 1966 World Cup
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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Rob Colls Keynote BSSH Conference '22
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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Round Table on EDI BSSH Conf '22
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Football on the Home Front with Dr. Alexander Jackson
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Rich Parry and Ram Guha
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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BSSH 40th Anniversary Special with Dr. Martin Johnes
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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BSSH 40th Anniversary Special with Dr Neil Carter
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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BSSH 40th Anniversary Special with Dr Fiona Skillen and Dr Carol Osborne
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May 09, 2022 |
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Max Portman
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Jon Hughes on Anglo-German Mountaineering Films
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Dil Porter on BS Johnson and Sports Journalism
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Duncan Stone on English Cricket
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Barbara Horley and UK Speedway
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Aaron Ó Maonaigh and Sport During the Irish Civil War
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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John Fisher on Cricketer Richard Cheslyn
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Jorge Tovar Football During the Coronavirus and the Fairness of VAR
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Heather Dichter Cold War and the Berlin Wall
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Malcolm Maclean and the Haka
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Rich Parry
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Lauren Beatty and women's golf
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Iain Adams on American Tug of War
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Sarah Hardstaff
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Noah Riseman and Caroline Layt on Transgender Athletes in Australia
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Ramanchandra Guha
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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Documenting the Olympics Keynote
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Documenting the Olympics The GLAM sector 2 - Olympic archives
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Documenting the Olympics - GLAM sector and London 2012
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Documenting the Olympics and Paralympics 1 - Researching the Games
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Alan McDougall, Bill Shankly's Retirement, Emotion, Gender and Transnationalism
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Sam Brady - Sporting Wheelchairs
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Alex Jackson and Early Football Fiction
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Andy Carter, Oxbridge and Greco-Roman Ideals
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Ian Cooke, Documenting the Olympics & Paralympics
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Julien Clenet and Sport in 19th Century Dublin
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May 28, 2021 |
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Geoff Swallow
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May 18, 2021 |
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Craig Greenham and the Pete Rose betting scandal
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May 15, 2021 |
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Dave Smith and Huddersfield Archive
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Barbara Horley on Speedway
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Margaret Roberts and Playing Pasts
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Linda Perkins and African American Women's Physical Education
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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Emily Ankers on Climbing
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Verity Postlethwaite and Olympic and Paralympic History
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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Shannon Walsh and American Physical Culture
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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Lasse Juel Larsen and Skill in Esport
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Matt Taylor & Raf Nicholson Women's Sport in WW2
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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Katie Taylor and Women's American Football
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Jan 09, 2021 |
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Women in Sport with Fiona Skillen and Carol Osborne
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Dec 05, 2020 |
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Conor Murray and Irish Sport
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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Dil Porter and Amateur Football History
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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BSSH Conference 2020 - Round Table on the Future of Sports History
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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BSSH Conference 2020 Sporting Inequalities
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Prashant Kidambi BSSH Conference 2020 Keynote
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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BSSH Conference 2020 The Writing of HIstory
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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BSSH 2020 Conference Boxing Panel
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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BSSH Conference 2020 - Edwardian Sport
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Nigel Hancock and the Cricket Society
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Will Whitmore and Sports Chaplaincy
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Conor Heffernan and Physical Culture
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Documenting The Olympics & Paralympics Symposium
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Conor Curran and Irish Soccer
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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Heather Dichter and Sport in the Cold War
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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Raja Rahim and College Basketball
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Allister Webb and Cricket
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Johanna Mellis and Cold War Sport
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Veronica Smith and Victorian Art
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Bernard Vere and Modernism
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Lydia Furse and Women's Rugby
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Sam Schelfhout and Weightlifting
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Tanya Jones - Sport and Apartheid
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Ryan Murtha and Lifestyle Sports
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Kay Schiller and German Sport
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Andrew Hao and Sport in China
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Gary Sheffield and Sport in World War 1
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Alec Hurley and Rowing
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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Helena Byrne on Women's Football in Ireland
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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Beth Gaskell and Sport in the British Army
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Mel Bassett on Sport and the Royal Dockyard in Portsmouth
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Raf Nicholson and Women's Sport Governance
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Geoff Levett and Sport in the British Empire
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Chris Stride on Football Kits and Sporting Statues
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Luise Elsaesser on Polo
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Matt Taylor and Sport during World War Two
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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Amelia Clegg on Sport and the British Army
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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Huw Richards and Welsh Rugby
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Tom Weir and the Special Olympics
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Amanda Callan-Spenn and Judo
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Rich Parry and South African Cricket
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Jon Hughes and Boxing
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Helena Byrne and Women's Football in Ireland
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Americans in Britain with Dr John Law
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Motor Sport and Women's Football with Prof Jean Williams
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Cricket in Yorkshire with Jeremy Lonsdale
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Lisa Taylor and Rowing History
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Prashant Kidambi on the Writing of Sports History
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Lydia Furse on the Women's Rugby World Cup
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Jul 25, 2020 |
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Dr Raf Nicholson - Women's Cricket
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Jul 24, 2020 |