Category: Athletics
Cloelia, Atalanta and Nausicaa
The Search for a Classical Sportswoman Role Model in 1930s’ Italy
This Playing Pasts article is the English version of a longer Italian article (2018), that can...
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The Relay Runners who joined the Resistance:
1930-1940s Italian Athletes
Lydia Bongiovanni & Elda Franco
Part 6
The author would like to express thanks to Maura Quiriconi for having shared the personal archive...
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The Relay Runners who joined the Resistance:
1930-1940s Italian Athletes
Lydia Bongiovanni & Elda Franco
Part 5
The author would like to express thanks to Maura Quiriconi for having shared the personal archive...
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The Relay Runners who joined the Resistance:
1930-1940s Italian Athletes
Lydia Bongiovanni & Elda Franco
Part 4
The author would like to express thanks to Maura Quiriconi for having shared the personal archive...
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The Discus:
The Story of the Strange British Disdain for an Olympic Icon
Part 5 ~ Preposterous and No Man in His Right Mind Would Throw It
To read Part 1: Classical Origins – Click HERE Part 2:Â Early British Interest (and...
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The Discus:
The Story of the Strange British Disdain for an Olympic Icon
Part 4 ~ Norman Gardiner and the Dual Discus Event Olympics of 1906 and 1908
To read Part 1: Classical Origins – Click HERE Part 2:Â Early British Interest (and...
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All About That Skirt:
Women’s sportswear in 1920-1940s’ Fascist Italy
Part 2
To read Part 1 Click HERE To continue where we left Part 1 with the discussion regarding female...
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All About That Skirt:
Women’s sportswear in 1920-1940s’ Fascist Italy
Part 1
As Rachael Jefferson-Buchanan has pointed out just some days ago in her The Conversation article...
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The Discus:
The Story of the Strange British Disdain for an Olympic Icon
Part 3 ~ Greek Revival and British Academic Objections
To read Part 1: Classical Origins – Click HERE and for Part 2:Â Early British Interest (and...
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The Discus:
The Story of the Strange British Disdain for an Olympic Icon
Part 2 ~ Early British Interest (and Disinterest!) in the Discus
Read Part 1: Classical Origins HERE In the early 1800s, fitness regimes and personal trainers were...
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The Discus:
The Story of the Strange British Disdain for an Olympic Icon
Part 1 ~ Classical Origins
Of all the events in the modern Olympic track and field programme nothing invokes the ancient...
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Alf Tupper
‘The Tough of the Track’ and the Class Struggle in British Athletics
Playing Past is delighted to be publishing on Open Access – Sporting Lives, [ISBN...
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