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Posted by Marco Giani | Jul 23, 2020 | Archival Research, Athletics, Cycling, Fencing, Football, General, Leisure, Rowing, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Sport & Leisure History, Sport & Politics, Swimming & Diving, Team Sports, The Great Outdoors, Winter Sports | 0

Eighteenth-Century Tavern Tribulations

Posted by Mike Huggins | May 25, 2020 | Archival Research, British Society of Sports History [BSSH], General, Sport & Leisure History | 0

Darts – Sport or Pastime?

Posted by Roy Case | May 4, 2020 | General, Indoor Sport, Leisure | 0

Michael Collins: from Via Tevere to the Moon

by Marco Impiglia | Apr 29, 2021 | General, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS] | 0

The newsreel “Radar” number 311 of October 1969, shown in cinemas across Italy rolls:-...

BARTITSU:
The Art of Self-defence
Part 2

by Roy Case | Mar 8, 2021 | General, Indoor Sport, Leisure, Wrestling/Self-defence | 0

Part 1 can be read HERE In 1913, the Liberal government led by Herbert Asquith, 1st Earl...

BARTITSU:
The Art of Self-defence
Part 1

by Roy Case | Mar 1, 2021 | General, Indoor Sport, Leisure, Wrestling/Self-defence | 0

The sixty-three year reign of Queen Victoria [1819-1901] was fast approaching its end, and with it...

Making Sports Visible: Italian Sports Logos from Milan Archivio di Stato

by Marco Giani | Jul 23, 2020 | Archival Research, Athletics, Cycling, Fencing, Football, General, Leisure, Rowing, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Sport & Leisure History, Sport & Politics, Swimming & Diving, Team Sports, The Great Outdoors, Winter Sports | 0

PLEASE NOTE ~ All images are taken from: Milano, Archivio di Stato di Milano, Prefettura di...

Eighteenth-Century Tavern Tribulations

by Mike Huggins | May 25, 2020 | Archival Research, British Society of Sports History [BSSH], General, Sport & Leisure History | 0

During lockdown I’ve started work on my next book on sport and English culture in the eighteenth...

Proto-modernity and Sport in Britain

by Mike Huggins | May 22, 2020 | British Society of Sports History [BSSH], Consumerism, General, Leisure, Playing Pasts edited Volume 2020, Playing Pasts Publications, Sport & Leisure History, Sport & Politics | 0

Please cite this article as: Huggins, M. Proto-modernity and Sport in Britain, In Day, D. (ed),...

Darts – Sport or Pastime?

by Roy Case | May 4, 2020 | General, Indoor Sport, Leisure | 0

You may never have considered yourself a sports aficionado, however since you are spending a...

American Exceptionalism at the Heart of Gaelic Ireland: Dublin’s 1924 Rodeo

by Conor Heffernan | Nov 18, 2019 | British Society of Sports History [BSSH], General | 0

To hear some people talk about Rodeo you would fancy it was something compounded from roots,...

Asserting the Rural and ‘The Truth about Wilson’

by John Bale | Oct 10, 2019 | Athletics, Cricket, Football, General, Podcasts | 0

This podcast from Prof John Bale, from a collection of short papers on aspects of sport and...

The Grand National Treasure

by Roy Case | Apr 6, 2019 | General | 0

Historic accounts suggest it was the Romans who first brought the thrill of horse racing to our...

“Creatine is Cheating No Matter How You Look at It”
Moral Panics and Irish Supplements in the New Millennium

by Conor Heffernan | Apr 4, 2019 | British Society of Sports History [BSSH], General | 0

For Irish sport lovers in the early 2000s it appeared that a new, and potentially dangerous, drug...

Not Like it’s 1999
When Does History Start? Mark Rowe Asks.

by Mark Rowe | Feb 28, 2019 | General | 0

Secrets of the Press: Journalists on Journalism, edited by Stephen Glover, only dates from 1999,...

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Michael Collins: from Via Tevere to the Moon

BARTITSU:The Art of Self-defencePart 2

BARTITSU:The Art of Self-defencePart 1

Making Sports Visible: Italian Sports Logos from M...

Eighteenth-Century Tavern Tribulations

Darts – Sport or Pastime?

Michael Collins: from Via Tevere to the Moon

BARTITSU:
The Art of Self-defence
Part 2

BARTITSU:
The Art of Self-defence
Part 1

Making Sports Visible: Italian Sports Logos from Milan Archivio di Stato

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Proto-modernity and Sport in Britain

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American Exceptionalism at the Heart of Gaelic Ireland: Dublin’s 1924 Rodeo

Asserting the Rural and ‘The Truth about Wilson’

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