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Making Sports Visible: Italian Sports Logos from M...
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, General, Sport & Leisure History | 0
Darts – Sport or Pastime?
Posted by Roy Case | May 4, 2020 | General, Indoor Sport, Leisure | 0
American Exceptionalism at the Heart of Gaelic Ire...
Posted by Conor Heffernan | Nov 18, 2019 | General | 0
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...
Read MoreMaking 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...
Read MoreEighteenth-Century Tavern Tribulations
by Mike Huggins | May 25, 2020 | Archival Research, General, Sport & Leisure History | 0
During lockdown I’ve started work on my next book on sport and English culture in the eighteenth...
Read MoreProto-modernity and Sport in Britain
by Mike Huggins | May 22, 2020 | 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),...
Read MoreDarts – 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...
Read MoreAmerican Exceptionalism at the Heart of Gaelic Ireland: Dublin’s 1924 Rodeo
by Conor Heffernan | Nov 18, 2019 | General | 0
To hear some people talk about Rodeo you would fancy it was something compounded from roots,...
Read MoreMike Collins: from Via Tevere to the Moon
by Marco Impiglia | Jul 20, 2019 | General, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS] | 0
The newsreel “Radar” number 311 of October 1969, shown in cinemas across Italy rolls:-...
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Moral Panics and Irish Supplements in the New Millennium
by Conor Heffernan | Apr 4, 2019 | General | 0
For Irish sport lovers in the early 2000s it appeared that a new, and potentially dangerous, drug...
Read MoreNot Like it’s 1999
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Read MoreParents are Important Too!
These days a great many children regularly engage in some form of sporting activity. And although...
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