Category: General
Frank Crozier (1882 – ?) A Jamaican Wrestling Champion in Spain
The first decades of the twentieth century were not the best moment in history to devote your life...
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American Exceptionalism at the Heart of Gaelic Ireland: Dublin’s 1924 Rodeo
To hear some people talk about Rodeo you would fancy it was something compounded from roots,...
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The North-West and Sport and Leisure History
This podcast from Prof Mike Huggins, from a collection of short papers on aspects of sport and...
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The Turbulent Stories of Heroic Mitropa Cups (1927-1942)
Part 2
For Part 1 of this series click HERE The successful football Mitropa tournaments strengthened the...
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Asserting the Rural and ‘The Truth about Wilson’
This podcast from Prof John Bale, from a collection of short papers on aspects of sport and...
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Mike Collins: from Via Tevere to the Moon
The newsreel “Radar” number 311 of October 1969, shown in cinemas across Italy rolls:-...
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The Grand National Treasure
Historic accounts suggest it was the Romans who first brought the thrill of horse racing to our...
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“Creatine is Cheating No Matter How You Look at It”
Moral Panics and Irish Supplements in the New Millennium
For Irish sport lovers in the early 2000s it appeared that a new, and potentially dangerous, drug...
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Not Like it’s 1999
When Does History Start? Mark Rowe Asks.
Secrets of the Press: Journalists on Journalism, edited by Stephen Glover, only dates from 1999,...
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Parents are Important Too!
These days a great many children regularly engage in some form of sporting activity. And although...
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Champion Wrestler Slain – The Life and Death of Uzile Prickett, America’s First Professional Wrestler
On June 15, 1868 a group of disgruntled fans shot and murdered the United States wrestling...
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Sport in Tudor Times (Part 2)
This article follows on from Part one – see https://goo.gl/bMHwKQ to read it. Bowls...
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