Category: Olympics
THE FORGOTTEN FIRST LADY:Rediscovering Violet Pier...
Posted by Peter Lovesey | Jan 4, 2021 | Articles, Athletics, Gender and Sport, Olympics | 0
THE FORGOTTEN FIRST LADY:Rediscovering Violet Pier...
Posted by Peter Lovesey | Dec 28, 2020 | Athletics, Gender and Sport, Olympics | 0
Ivor Montagu:Table Tennis and Apartheid South Afri...
Posted by Stuart Sweeney | Dec 7, 2020 | Indoor Sport, Olympics, Sport & Leisure History | 1
Another Dibiasi, another phenomenon!The story of K...
Posted by Gherardo Bonini | Oct 26, 2020 | Olympics, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Swimming & Diving | 0
THE FORGOTTEN FIRST LADY:
Rediscovering Violet Piercy, Marathon Pioneer
Part 3
by Peter Lovesey | Jan 11, 2021 | Athletics, Gender and Sport, Olympics | 0
To read Part 1 of this series click HERE and Part 2 HERE The Running Career Revived Violet...
Read MoreTHE FORGOTTEN FIRST LADY:
Rediscovering Violet Piercy, Marathon Pioneer
Part 2
by Peter Lovesey | Jan 4, 2021 | Articles, Athletics, Gender and Sport, Olympics | 0
To read the first part of this series click HERE Who was Violet Piercy? Helpfully Piercy’s...
Read MoreTHE FORGOTTEN FIRST LADY:
Rediscovering Violet Piercy, Marathon Pioneer
Part 1
by Peter Lovesey | Dec 28, 2020 | Athletics, Gender and Sport, Olympics | 0
Introduction The story of a British woman called Violet Piercy running a marathon in 1926 has been...
Read MoreIvor Montagu:
Table Tennis and Apartheid South Africa
by Stuart Sweeney | Dec 7, 2020 | Indoor Sport, Olympics, Sport & Leisure History | 1
Introduction Sport is closely linked to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, with the...
Read MoreThe Unfinished ‘Amusement and Sports Park’ Project in Warsaw from 1921
the First Vision for an Olympic District in the Capital City of the Second Polish Republic?
by Kamil Potrzuski | Oct 29, 2020 | Olympics, Playing Pasts Publications, Sport & Politics, Sporting Cultures: Global Perspectives edited Volume 2019 | 0
Please cite this article as: Potrzuski, K. The Unfinished ‘Amusement and Sports Park’ Project in...
Read MoreAnother Dibiasi, another phenomenon!
The story of Karl Dibiasi
by Gherardo Bonini | Oct 26, 2020 | Olympics, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Swimming & Diving | 0
Between 1964 and 1976, Klaus Dibiasi was one of the greatest divers in the World. Klaus always...
Read More‘Ghosts are Much of What Makes a Space a Place’:
Interpreting the Relics of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Village through Art
by Iain Adams | Oct 22, 2020 | Archival Research, Olympics, Playing Pasts Publications, Sporting Cultures: Global Perspectives edited Volume 2019 | 1
Please cite this article as: Adams, I. ‘Ghosts are Much of What Makes a Space a Place’:...
Read MoreGretel Bergmann
~An International Olympic Contender~
The ‘Bitter Awakening from the Wonderful Dream’ of Attending the Olympic Games
by Lisa Jenkel | Sep 28, 2020 | Archival Research, Athletics, Gender and Sport, Olympics, Sport & Politics, Student Zone | 0
To read the earlier articles in this series by Lisa please click on the links below Part 1 –...
Read More“And then we were Boycotted”
New Discoveries about the Birth of Women’s Football in Italy [1933]
Part 7
by Marco Giani | Sep 3, 2020 | Archival Research, Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Gender and Sport, Leisure, Olympics, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Sport & Politics, Team Sports, The Great Outdoors, Winter Sports | 0
The author would like to express thanks to Luigi and Francesco Ferrari for the images (taken from...
Read MoreSports Migration during National Socialism:
Reasons and Research on the Emigration of Jewish Athletes from Germany after 1933
by Lisa Jenkel | Aug 31, 2020 | Archival Research, Athletics, Gender and Sport, Olympics, Student Zone, Tennis | 0
“Thousands have emigrated from our ranks in recent years, some have already become champions in a...
Read MoreA Neglected Austrian Lifter and Resistant: Franz Huhsar
by Gherardo Bonini | Aug 3, 2020 | Olympics, Physical Culture, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Sport & Politics | 0
The period following World War I, ending with the horror of World War II, was one of the most...
Read MoreThe Eternal Seconds of Italian Women’s Athletics:
The History of Gruppo Sportivo La Filotecnica [Milan, 1935-1943]
by Marco Giani | Jul 16, 2020 | Athletics, Gender and Sport, Olympics, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Sport & Politics | 0
The author would like to express thanks to Lyana Calvesi for the images from Archivio personale...
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