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Sport in History
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 ca...
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Rewriting Sport and the British: A discussion on the revised edition of Richard Holt's Sport & the British
So many of the world’s sports have their origins in Britain. Why is this? How did sports innovate and evolve in step with social upheaval, and politic...
30 Years of Sports History at De Montfort University Roundtable
The podcast is excited to share with you this roundtable from the 2025 British Society of Sports History Conference at Ulster University which celebra...
Matthew Brown on Sports History in South America
This episode features Matthew Brown, winner of the 2024 Lord Aberdare Book Prize, giving his Lord Aberdare Prize Keynote lecture, at the 2025 BSSH Con...
Tamsin Johnson on Cycling Women and Visions of Modernity & Femininity in British Visual Culture (1880-1939)
Women falling off bicycles or crashing into men, society women assembled neatly next to a bicycle (but rarely sat upon), women cycling along telegraph...
Ben Robinson on Notts County and the "most audacious fraud in Sport"
Join Max Portman as he speaks to Ben Robinson, an investigate journalist and series producer for the BBC about Ben's book "The Trillion Dollar Conman:...
Noemi Steuerwald on Equestrian Sport as a Symbol of Power & Exclusion in the Victorian Era
Today, leisure is often seen as a universal right – accessible to all, regardless of background. Yet historically, access to leisure and sport was hig...
Katharine Worth on nationalism in British motor racing since 1894
Join Max Portman as he interviews Katharine Worth, PhD Student at the University of Western Australia & Collections And Research officer (which clever...
Dan Covell on Jack Langer and Yale University versus the National Collegiate Athletic Association
Join Max Portman as he interviews Dr Dan Covell of Western New England University, Massachusetts in the United States to talk about his recently publi...
Arran Hicks on Arsenal, Wolves, and the Eastern Bloc, 1954-55
The 1945 Dynamo Moscow tour of Britain stands as a significant event in postwar sporting history. It has been studied extensively as a diplomatic even...
Raf Nicholson in Conversation with Beth Barrett-Wild and Claire Taylor on the future of Women's Cricket
Thanks to our friends over at the Cricket Research Network, we are delighted to bring you this panel discussion chaired by historian and journalist Ra...
Emily Calcraft on Pacifism, Non-Violence and Sport in Inter-War Britain
Whilst scholars have tended to focus on hegemonic internationalist sporting practices and their promotion of peace, this paper explores peace activist...
Colin Yates on Sport and "Art as a Message"
Join Max Portman as he interviews artist Colin Yates on sport and "art as a message", discussing how Colin's career and major projects have highlight...
Peter Mason on Sir Clyde Walcott
Join Podcast host & editor Max Portman as he interviews Peter Mason, Journalist with the Guardian Newspaper & author of several books on music, food,...
The treatment of sports injuries in the Republic of Ireland, 1950-2010: A History
This paper examines the provision of sports injury treatment in the Republic of Ireland during the period from 1950 until 2010. By the late 1960s, tal...
Matt McDowell on Surfing & Modernity in the North of Scotland
New podcast host and Editor Max Portman talks to Dr Matthew L McDowell about Dr McDowell's new book 'Surfing and modernity in the North of Scotland',...
Abhinava Srivastava on Enacting ‘speed’ as Samman (honour): Fast bowling and sporting masculinity in Contemporary India
In this seminar paper, the enabling potential of ‘speed’ is theorized to study how bowling fast on cricket field has increasingly allowed a section of...
Michael Crawley on Myth, Reality and the Articulation of Sport and Society in Ethiopian Running
Taking inspiration from Derek Birley's 'The Willow Wand,' this talk begins by exploring some of the myths surrounding Ethiopian running. Michael Crawl...
Alex Jackson on “Goals and their meaning”: The meaning of one wartime game. Or: Stoke 16 Blackburn Rovers 0
How can we understand the meaning of wartime football? This talk tries to tackle a small part of this question by exploring the history and contempora...
David Horspool at Chalke History Festival
Our Friends over at the History of Jackson have been kind enough to share this short podcast interview with David Horspool with the Sport in History P...
Seth Tannenbaum on The Historical Marginalization of Black Fans at Major League Baseball Games
While the decline in Black American baseball players has received lots of scholarly attention in the last three decades, scholars have not spent as mu...
‘Don’t worry!’: Sam Oldfield on The rise of netball and international governance 1926-1963
Throughout the twentieth century women’s rights to compete in sport at international level started to be realised, with major tournaments and competit...
How cricketers navigate class connotations of traditional cricket kit relating to identity & place
This emerging, ongoing research project delves into the historical influence of class distinctions on cricket in Greater Manchester, focusing on grass...
Michael Connolly on Brother Walfrid and the foundation of Celtic Football Club
Dr Michael Connolly is currently lecturing in Sport Management at the University of Stirling, placed within the Faculty of Health Science and Sport.Hi...
Cricket Research Network 2024 Round Table
This episode is a recording of a Roundtable discussion during the first Cricket Research Network conference, held at the Museum of Welsh Cricket in Ca...
Dave Day and Female Teachers of PE in Interwar Britain
'For those who like the life nothing could be better’: The Games Mistress in Interwar BritainDuring the Edwardian period the ‘sporting girl’ was incre...
Max Ferrer on Global Barça and Consumable Catalan Culture
In the decades surrounding the turn of the twenty-first century, few brands across the globe gained more recognition than that of FC Barcelona. During...
Clem Seecharan in conversation with David Woodhouse
Clem Seecharan, the distinguished historian of Guyana and Caribbean cricket, talks to David Woodhouse at a special event to celebrate his being given...
Matt Taylor on Barbara Buttrick
Barbara Buttrick and the History of Women’s Boxing in BritainThis paper explores the life and career of Barbara Buttrick but also the way in which her...
Roy Thompson on Football and Emotion
‘I've been with them longer than my wife.’ Searching for emotional clues in published fan culture. The highs and lows of following Lincoln City 1945-2...
Souvik Naha and Postcolonial Cricket
This episode Souvik Naha gives a paper on the relationship between cricket, nationalism and postcolonial identities in 20th century India.What cricket...
Jeremy Lonsdale and MCC in India 1926-27
This episode Geoff talks to cricket historian Jeremy Lonsdale about the MCC tour to India in 1926-27. The tour, led by Arthur Gilligan, was a pivotal...
Heather Dichter and Sport and Soft Power
This episode features the keynote presentation at the 2023 BSSH Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University. Dr Heather Dichter gives a wide rang...
Thomas Campbell - The Miners' Strike and 80s Football Violence
'The enemy within' football hooliganism and the miners' strike' During the 1980s Margaret Thatcher’s government attempted to reduce the economic power...
Turlough O'Riordan, Terry Clavin and Carol Osborne on Irish Sporting Lives
Join Conor Heffernan as he interviews Turlough O'Riordan and Terry Clavin, co-editors of the wonderful 2022 collection Irish Sporting Lives. We are al...
Roger Domeneghetti and sport in the 80s
Roger Domeneghetti is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Northumbria University while maintaining a career as a freelance journalist where he has worked...
Conor Heffernan on US Women's Weightlifting in the 80s
Conor Heffernan on US Women's Weightlifting in the 80s by British Society of Sports History
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Ben Duncan-Jones on Boxing
The geographies and finances of bare-knuckle prize-fighting in Britain, 1860-1880From the mid-nineteenth century bare-knuckle prize-fighting in Britai...
Andy Carter - Victorians and sport in the classical world
Andy Carter - Victorians and sport in the classical world by British Society of Sports History
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Katie Holmes on Women's Running
This episode features a paper given by Katie Holmes at the IHR on women's running.Until October 1975, women in the UK did not compete in marathons, no...
Dr. Michael Connolly on Brother Walfrid
Brother Walfrid (Andrew Kerins) is best known for founding Celtic F.C. in 1888. While his name is known well within the club's history, biographical d...