Category: General
BARTITSU:
The Art of Self-defence
Part 1
The sixty-three year reign of Queen Victoria [1819-1901] was fast approaching its end, and with it...
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Making Sports Visible: Italian Sports Logos from Milan Archivio di Stato
PLEASE NOTE ~ All images are taken from: Milano, Archivio di Stato di Milano, Prefettura di...
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Eighteenth-Century Tavern Tribulations
During lockdown I’ve started work on my next book on sport and English culture in the eighteenth...
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Proto-modernity and Sport in Britain
Please cite this article as: Huggins, M. Proto-modernity and Sport in Britain, In Day, D. (ed),...
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Darts – Sport or Pastime?
You may never have considered yourself a sports aficionado, however since you are spending a...
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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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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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