Category: Videos
Manchester’s Miller Street public baths and wash-house, 1846-1850
Presented by: Syliva Koelling at the SpLeish Colloquium, March 2017 Much of the historical...
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The Death of the Fisherman and the Birth of the Bather: the emergence of recreational swimming in a Cornish coastal town
Presented by: Geoff Swallow ABSTRACT The first annual summer migrant to arrive on the coast of...
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Historical Perspectives on Female Contributions to Sports Leadership
This video is from a public lecture given at MMU Cheshire Campus for Internation Women’s Day...
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Yugoslav Football Teams in the UK and Ireland in Interwar Period (1918-1939): Impressions and Perceptions of the Cradle of Football
After the end of the First World War and unification of the South Slavic lands into one country,...
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‘On the Field with the Coyness of Debutantes’: Uncovering the Hidden History of Female Footballers’
Presented by Associate Professor Rob Hess, College of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria...
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Tanking, Shirking and Running Dead: The Role of Economics and Large Data Bases in Identifying Competition Corruption and Its Causes
Presented by Wray Vamplew at the SpLeisH International Sport & Leisure History Colloquium...
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The Burnden Park Stadium Disaster: British Football’s Forgotten Tragedy
Association Football, Stadium Disaster, Burnden Park, Hughes Report As presented at the SpLeisH...
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The Origins and Formation of England Netball
Presented by Dr Samantha-Jayne Oldfield, Manchester Metropolitan University at @SpLeisH...
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‘All that is pleasant and noteworthy’. Claiming legitimacy and popularity in the early Flemish sports press: Sportwereld, 1912-1914
Presented by Dr Stijn Knuts, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium – at the SpLeisH...
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From Bloom to Battle: Tracing Ireland’s Early Physical Culture Movement
Presented at the SpLeisH International Colloquium – 3-4 March 2017 By Conor Heffernan In 1898 one...
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From Basket-Ball to Net-Ball: A Cross-Cultural Shift?
SpLeisH International Colloquium Paper – 3-4 March 2017 The ‘invention’ of basket-ball in 1891...
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The adventures of a comic motorsports hero as an approach to understand recent French history
This article has been contributed by the following authors: Sébastien Laffage-Cosnier Christian...
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