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Rugby at the Olympics:
How Committed Rugby Fan Pierre de Coubertin Ensured its Inclusion
by Bill Williams | Jul 24, 2024 | Olympics, Rugby, Team Sports | 0
When the Rugby sevens tournament kicks off in Paris on the 24th July as the first sport to be...
Read MoreThe Prehistory of Six Day Bicycle Races
Part 5:1876
by Filip Walenta | Jul 22, 2024 | Archival Research, Athletics, Cycling, Sport & Leisure History | 0
To read the previous parts of this series click on the relevant links below Part 1 Part 2 Part...
Read MoreBANNED! How Gold Medalist Cecil Griffiths missed ‘The Chariots of Fire’ Olympics of 1924
by Bill Williams | Jul 16, 2024 | Athletics, Olympics | 0
As many athletes across the world wait to hear if they have been selected for the the 2024 Paris...
Read MoreUnbeatable! Were the ‘Invincible’ Lions of ’74 the true ‘World Champions?’
by Bill Williams | Jun 20, 2024 | Rugby, Team Sports | 0
This summer marks 50 years since arguably the greatest ever British and Irish Lions Rugby tour to...
Read MoreThe World Record Football Match
Floodlit in 1923: 7 Years BEFORE Men
Hey’s Brewery Bradford Ladies FC + Dick Kerr Ladies
Part 1
by Steve Bolton | May 30, 2024 | British Society of Sports History [BSSH], Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Team Sports, Women in Sport | 0
1923 Women’s Game: “You Could Read a Newspaper in the Centre Circle” An interesting and highly...
Read MoreMaurice Turnbull:
Was He Britain’s Most Complete All –Round Sportsman?
by Bill Williams | May 20, 2024 | Archival Research, Athletics, Cricket, Football, Olympics, Rugby, Sport & Leisure History, Team Sports, Tennis, Women in Sport | 0
August this year (2024) will mark the 8oth anniversary of the sad death of a long-forgotten Welsh...
Read MoreThe Same Difference:
A Review of Conservative and Labour Government Physical Education and School Sport Policy 1988-2010
by Margaret Roberts : Playing Pasts Editor in Chief | May 12, 2024 | Playing Pasts Publications, Sport and Coaching, Sports & Coaching: Pasts & Futures: edited Volume 2012 | 0
Playing Past is delighted to be publishing on Open Access –Sports and Coaching: Pasts and Futures...
Read MoreCommunity Sport Development: Is the Future Evidence?
by Margaret Roberts : Playing Pasts Editor in Chief | May 12, 2024 | Playing Pasts Publications, Sport and Coaching, Sports & Coaching: Pasts & Futures: edited Volume 2012 | 0
Playing Past is delighted to be publishing on Open Access –Sports and Coaching: Pasts and Futures...
Read MoreSoviet Physical Culture in Uzbekistan:
Implementation and Social Impact
by Margaret Roberts : Playing Pasts Editor in Chief | May 12, 2024 | Playing Pasts Publications, Sport and Coaching, Sports & Coaching: Pasts & Futures: edited Volume 2012 | 0
Playing Past is delighted to be publishing on Open Access –Sports and Coaching: Pasts and Futures...
Read MoreDevelopment of Soviet Sport and the Components Which Ensured Its Success
by Margaret Roberts : Playing Pasts Editor in Chief | May 12, 2024 | Playing Pasts Publications, Sport and Coaching, Sports & Coaching: Pasts & Futures: edited Volume 2012 | 0
Playing Past is delighted to be publishing on Open Access –Sports and Coaching: Pasts and Futures...
Read More‘Old Harry Andrews’:
Surviving the Professional Pedestrianism to Amateur Athletics Transition.
by Margaret Roberts : Playing Pasts Editor in Chief | May 12, 2024 | Athletics, Playing Pasts Publications, Sport and Coaching, Sports & Coaching: Pasts & Futures: edited Volume 2012 | 0
Playing Past is delighted to be publishing on Open Access –Sports and Coaching: Pasts and Futures...
Read MoreNarrative, Biography, Prosopography and the Sport Historian:
Historical Method and its Implications
by Margaret Roberts : Playing Pasts Editor in Chief | May 12, 2024 | Playing Pasts Publications, Sport and Coaching, Sports & Coaching: Pasts & Futures: edited Volume 2012 | 0
Playing Past is delighted to be publishing on Open Access –Sports and Coaching: Pasts and Futures...
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