Author: Dave Day

An Englishman Abroad:
Professor Christopher Butterworth
Part Two

Posted by Dave Day | Oct 17, 2024 | Archival Research, British Society of Sports History [BSSH], Swimming & Diving | 0

To read Part 1, click HERE While a detailed chronology of his activities and movements between...

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An Englishman Abroad:
Professor Christopher Butterworth
Part One.

Posted by Dave Day | Oct 3, 2024 | Archival Research, British Society of Sports History [BSSH], Swimming & Diving | 0

Willie Beckwith observed in 1883 that no American swimmer of the time would be able to compete...

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‘Our Present Methods and Spirit are Fatal to Success’:
Coaching and Training in Britain 1912-1914

Posted by Dave Day | May 2, 2022 | Archival Research, Athletics, Playing Pasts Publications, Sport & Leisure History, Sport & Leisure on the Eve of WWI: edited Volume 2016 | 0

Playing Past is delighted to be publishing on Open Access – Sport and Leisure on the Eve of World...

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Entrepreneurial Pugilists of the Eighteenth Century

Posted by Dave Day | Dec 2, 2021 | Boxing, Playing Pasts Publications, Sporting Lives: edited Volume 2010 | 0

Playing Past is delighted to be publishing on Open Access – Sporting Lives, [ISBN...

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A ‘Remarkable Career of Public Usefulness’:
Birmingham Swimming Professor John Bates.

Posted by Dave Day | Nov 9, 2020 | Archival Research, Swimming & Diving, Women in Sport | 2

Swimming professors, entrepreneurs who built on their personal reputations to create careers for...

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