The Sport in History Podcast brings you the latest research with interviews and talks with leading sports historians and up-and-coming researchers into Sports History. The podcast is a British Society of Sports History (BSSH) production from the UK's leading society for the history of sport.. You can find us on all social media platforms and major podcast platforms here.
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The Sport in History Podcast brings you the latest research with interviews and talks with leading sports historians and up-and-coming researchers into Sports History. The podcast is a British Society of Sports History (BSSH) production from the UK's leading society for the history of sport.. You can find us on all social media platforms and major podcast platforms here.
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Join Max Portman as he speaks to a true legend of academic sports history in Professor Tony Collins, Emeritus Professor of History at De Montfort University and a Fellow of the Institute of Sports Humanities at Loughborough University. The two are discussing Tony's new book Roy Francis: Rugby’s Forgotten Black Leader, published by Bloomsbury Sport in June 2025.
Tony's book covers the life of Roy from his humble beginnings in Brynmawr in the Welsh valleys where the circumstances surrounding his birth were contentious, through his journey to the North of England, where he made his name, first as a player in the 1930s and 1940s, before a managerial career that carried through until the 1970s. Across the interview, Max and Tony discuss Roy's father Lionel, an interesting character in his own right, Roy's wartime service, which involved a brief sojourn into rugby union, and how Roy broke down not just racial barriers in the pre-windrush era, but also revolutionised rugby league into the modern age as the first black manager in rugby league history.
If you love Rugby League, sports or are interested in hearing a new chapter of Black British history, then this is the perfect epsiode for you!!
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So many of the world’s sports have their origins in Britain. Why is this? How did sports innovate and evolve in step with social upheaval, and political and cultural change? Why did British forms of play become so influential around the world?
Richard Holt explores all these questions and more in a new edition of Sport and the British: A Modern History. For over thirty years Sport and the British has been the standard work on the history of sport in Britain, and the new edition provides a complete rewrite of the original text, incorporating the most up-to-date research.
The original text, published in 1989, has been described as the "Bible of British sports history". In this new edition, Professor Holt provides a complete rewrite of the original text, incorporating the most up-to-date research in the field and we were lucky to have such an esteemed panel in Raf Nicholson, Rob Colls, Dil Porter and Tony Collins join Richard Holt in discussing the book at length at the Institute of Historical Research in London in what was a record crowd of 70+ for the Sport and Leisure History Seminar series and chaired by BSSH Vice-chair Amanda Callan-Spenn.
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The podcast is excited to share with you this roundtable from the 2025 British Society of Sports History Conference at Ulster University which celebrated 30 years of Sports History being studied at De Montfort University (DMU) in Leicester, UK.
The panel was chaired by current DMU associate professor Heather Dichter, alongside DMU emeritus professor Richard Holt and former students of Sports History at the university including Dr Melinda Reid and Dr Tom Fabian (who joined virtually) to discuss the history of the Sports History and culture MA which began in 1995 and the launch of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC) a year later, in addition to all of the great research that has emerged over the past three decades.
We hope you enjoy this roundtable and if you would like to find out more about Sports History at DMU, you can do so here: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/research-faculties-and-institutes/art-design-humanities/icshc/international-centre-for-sports-history-and-culture.aspx
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This episode features Matthew Brown, winner of the 2024 Lord Aberdare Book Prize, giving his Lord Aberdare Prize Keynote lecture, at the 2025 BSSH Conference at Ulster University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Professor Matthew Brown is professor of Latin American history at the University of Bristol.
Professor Brown delivered a wonderful and engaging keynote that covered a wide-ranging overview of Sports within South America in the early 20th Century and interwar period, covering a variety of sports including soccer, swimming and Athletics and the pride or representation it gave to certain countries within South America in what was a wonderful start to the conference.
There is also a brief introduction given by BSSH past chair and BSSH 2025 Conference Organiser, Dr Conor Heffernan, on the importance of sports within Northern Ireland and the importance of curiosity when addressing historical work.
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Women falling off bicycles or crashing into men, society women assembled neatly next to a bicycle (but rarely sat upon), women cycling along telegraph wires, socialising in gentile city-centre parks or cycling through space and time as celestial figures; visuals of cycling women are ambiguous and complex. In many ways, these visuals reflect enduring confusion with how to depict and respond to feminine speed, physical power and relationship to technology. During the 1890’s ‘cycling craze’ women’s cycling was viewed by many as damaging women’s health and femininity but by 1939 cycling was one way in which women could attain the ideal, modern female body – so what changed? The history and visual culture of women’s cycling during these critical decades (1880-1939) offers a useful lens through which we can assess and understand changing forms of feminine modernity.
Tamsin Johnson has a blended academic and professional experience working and researching within fashion and visual cultures. Tamsin holds a master’s degree in Culture, Style and Fashion from Nottingham Trent University where she returned in 2023 for doctoral study. Her AHRC-funded PhD Cycling Women and Visions of Modernity and Femininity in British Visual Culture (1880-1939) aims to recover lost visions of women’s cycling and utilises a range of national archives – both cycling and non-cycling specific. Recent research outputs include an article with The Conversation and features on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and ABC Australia’s Late Night Live.
You can contact Tamsin or find her on Social Media via the links below:
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Join Max Portman as he speaks to Ben Robinson, an investigate journalist and series producer for the BBC about Ben's book "The Trillion Dollar Conman: The Astonishing True Story of the Most Audacious Fraud in Sport", released in October 2024 by Icon Books.
Ben's book covers the high and lows of the 2009/10 football season, where Notts County, the world's oldest professional football club (founded in 1862), and struggling to survive in English Football's League Two (the 4th highest tier of English football), were subject to a mysterious takeover. This takeover, supposedly backed by the Bahrain royal family, promised millions of pounds worth of investment and marquee players, including Sol Campbell and Kasper Schmeichel, were signed by former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, who had been appointed as a director of football to take the club all the way to the Premier League.
However, within months, the dream turned into a nightmare as it transpired that the club, the players and the fans had been mis-sold a dream by a convicted fraudster called Russell King, who's elaborate scheme involved F1 teams, the North Korean regime and a false bank guarantee; All of which Ben and Max discuss throughout this episode, amongst many other weird and wonderful happenings in Nottingham that season!
If you want to learn more about this subject, Ben's book has already turned into a podcast series with the same title as his book, hosted by Comedian and podcaster Alice Levine, which can be found on BBC Sounds.
If you love football or just love a good story full of twists, turns and drama that would make a soap opera jealous, this is the perfect podcast episode for you!
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Today, leisure is often seen as a universal right – accessible to all, regardless of background. Yet historically, access to leisure and sport was highly regulated and deeply unequal. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, who had leisure time, what kind of sport they could pursue, and where and how they could do so, was determined by intersecting factors of gender, race, and especially class. This talk examines the cultural and social functions of leisure through the lens of equestrian sport. Focusing on the Victorian era, it argues that horseback riding was far more than a recreational pastime; it was a highly coded system of social communication. Practices such as dress, posture, and riding instructions served to reinforce existing social hierarchies and embodied norms. Drawing on examples from equestrian culture, the talk explores how race, class, and gender shaped not only access to leisure but also its meaning. By shedding light on these historical dynamics, the lecture invites reflection on contemporary debates around accessibility and inclusion in sport and leisure today – reminding us that leisure has never been neutral, and still carries the weight of social structures.
Noemi Steuerwald is a historian based at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Her doctoral research explores the cultural and gender history of equestrian sport, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. She is particularly interested in how practices of horseback riding reflect and shape historical dynamics of body, race, class, and gender.
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Join Max Portman as he interviews Katharine Worth, PhD Student at the University of Western Australia & Collections And Research officer (which cleverly spells CAR officer) at Silverstone Museum about her thesis on nationalism within British Motor racing since 1894.
Recorded on a sunny spring day in Silverstone at the museum and during many tea breaks for Katie, Max & Katie discuss how nationalism has appeared within British motor racing amongst multiple eras within the 20th and 21st century, the growth of hyper-commercialism within the sport and how Netflix's Drive to survive is a positive addition to the motorsport and motor racing discourse.
Additionally, there's plenty more to digest during this episode including a shared love of Williams Racing, a first-ever mention of a "shoey" in this podcast's history, and finally, a discussion about the upcoming events and conferences at the museum that Katie is participating in and/or organising in 2025.
If you love motorsport, F1 or are interested in the relationship between Nationalism and sports, this episode of the podcast is perfect for you!
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Join Max Portman as he interviews Dr Dan Covell of Western New England University, Massachusetts in the United States to talk about his recently published article in our journal 'Sport in History' titled ‘Strictly a power play’: Jack Langer and Yale University versus the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
In what is an aptly-timed interview with the NCAA's premier competition, March Madness, in full swing, Max and Dan discuss how Jack Langer's appearance at the Maccabiah games, often called the "Jewish Olympics," and a major international multi-sport event organized by the Maccabi World Union every four years in Israel, featuring Jewish and Israeli athletes of any religion in 1969, created a political storm in what was already a tense and difficult political relationship with the multiple organisations that were prevalent in American Collegiate sports at the time. These organisations including the mentioned Yale University and the Ivy League Colleges, the mentioned NCAA and the AAU (Amateur Athletic Union).
During this interview they discuss how this political storm had been growing for many years prior and how the effects of it are still felt today, with the potential end of the NCAA, the weakening in power of the AAU and Yale looking at a future free of NCAA control. If you're a fan of collegiate sports, America or just enjoy your sports history and politics, then this is the episode for you.
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The 1945 Dynamo Moscow tour of Britain stands as a significant event in postwar sporting history. It has been studied extensively as a diplomatic event that ultimately failed to improve relations between the Soviets and the British, but was successful in promoting Soviet prestige within the state.
With the onset of the Cold War, sides from the two states would not meet again until 1954, following Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin. Arsenal became the first team to visit the Soviet Union that year, and Spartak Moscow would visit Britain shortly afterwards to play Arsenal and Wolves. Further still, Wolves toured the Soviet Union in 1955 for a return match against Spartak, as well as a game against Dynamo Moscow. Taking place in a much-changed Cold War climate, these matches remain under-explored events in the study of cultural relations, diplomacy, and national identity.
This paper focuses on the relationship between British and Eastern Bloc football teams during the early Cold War. It focuses on matches played by Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers against teams from the Soviet Union and Hungary. It aims to demonstrate that not only were these matches a prominent part of British foreign policy, but also an important part of attempting to maintain a British identity of prestige and superiority. It further aims to argue that these matches played a crucial part in the creation of the European Cup and the wider Europeanisation of football.
Arran Hicks is a second-year PhD Student in History at the University of East Anglia, studying football matches between British and Eastern European sides in the early Cold War and their effect on British national identity. His main research interests are football history, national identity and propaganda in the twentieth century. Other areas of interest include film and media history, the history of international sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup and Olympic Games, and the history of the Cold War.
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Thanks to our friends over at the Cricket Research Network, we are delighted to bring you this panel discussion chaired by historian and journalist Raf Nicholson in conversation with Beth Barrett-Wild (Director of the Women's Professional Game at the England & Wales Cricket Board) and Claire Taylor (MCC, London Spirit and Berkshire Cricket Foundation) as they reflect on the future of women's cricket.
The panel was part of the second annual conference of the Cricket Research Network, held at Loughborough University on the 13th of February 2025. For more information about the work of the Network, you can follow them on BlueSky @cricketacademic.bsky.social or check out their YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@CricketResearchNetwork.
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Whilst scholars have tended to focus on hegemonic internationalist sporting practices and their promotion of peace, this paper explores peace activists’ use of sport as a means to create a community of anti-war individuals, on both the domestic and international levels. This study looks at two organisations to ascertain the role of physical activity in pacifism organisations: the League of Nations’ Union and the Peace Pledge Union. In doing so the paper outlines that, in the 1920s sport was used to foster international kinship as peace activists believed it to be an effective antidote to war and militarism. This largely rested upon large-scale internationalist and nationalist sporting events, most notably the Olympics. When international conflict and fascism was gaining ground across Europe, this belief was questioned. As pacifism became more absolute, physical activities were increasingly used to test an individual’s commitment to non-violence.
Emily Calcraft is an AHRC White Rose College of Arts and Humanities funded PhD student at the University of Sheffield. Her research specialises in the use of education by the pacifist movement in Inter-war Britain.
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Join Max Portman as he interviews artist Colin Yates on sport and "art as a message", discussing how Colin's career and major projects have highlighted art as a message through the lens of football.
Talking primarily about football for an aptly-timed 90 minutes (plus 3 minutes of injury time), Max and Colin cover a lot of ground, discussing how Colin's major projects on Black Footballers and women's football have driven home the three main themes that shape his work: Art, Sport and Education. They also discuss Colin's love for the underdog, how their creative processes work and at one point, the tables are turned when Colin begins to interview Max.
This is for those not only with an interest in football or art, but also those with an interest in how creativity can shape the world and shape attitudes to educate and inform people.
Note: The Artwork featured is 'Jack Leslie 'Silenced' ' by Colin Yates. For more of Colin's work, visit his website at : https://www.colinyatesart.com/
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Join Podcast host & editor Max Portman as he interviews Peter Mason, Journalist with the Guardian Newspaper & author of several books on music, food, carnival culture and sport, as they discuss Peter's latest book on the West Indian Cricketing Legend, Sir Clyde Walcott.
In an engaging 50-minute conversation, Max and Peter cover a lot of ground, discussing Clyde's legacy not only as one of the greatest batsmen of all time; but also as the manager of the hugely successful West Indies team of the 1970s, 80s, and 1990s and his trailblazing achievements as an administrator, becoming the first non-white, non-British president of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1993.
This is a must-listen for cricket lovers, but also those with a love of the Caribbean as Clyde Walcott was not only a legend of the Cricket field, where he modernised the game and made it truly international, but a legend of the Caribbean, where a boy from Barbados changed not only the West Indies forever as one of it's recognisable black icons of the modern age.
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This paper examines the provision of sports injury treatment in the Republic of Ireland during the period from 1950 until 2010. By the late 1960s, talks on the prevention and treatment of sports injuries were being held sporadically. How initial centres for the specialised treatment of sports injuries were developed in the 1970s is assessed. Sports related physiotherapy and professional treatment became more common by the early 1980s. In 1981, a government-backed investigation into sports injuries began, while the Irish Sports Medicine Association was also founded that year. With an increase in participation in sport, injuries had become more common. The main findings of the Sports Injuries Committee, completed in 1984, are identified and it will be shown that despite their recommendations, issues remained at grassroots level. It was not until 2005 that plans for a major specialised centre for the treatment of sports injuries in Dublin were announced.
Dr Conor Curran is an independent historian who has published extensively on the history of sport and society in Ireland. His new book, Blue Chippers from the Emerald Isle: A history of Irish footballers and scholarships in the USA in the twentieth century, will be published later this year by Peter Lang.
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New podcast host and Editor Max Portman talks to Dr Matthew L McDowell about Dr McDowell's new book 'Surfing and modernity in the North of Scotland', published in September 2024 with Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The book discusses the existence and evolution of surfing in the region, from the 1960s to the present day. It does not, however, focus just on surfing: it also acts as a history of the region itself, and examines the possibilities and limits of surfing, sport, and activities like them being used as a means of reinventing communities.
These are all themes that Max and Matt cover in their interview as they discuss the global and local cultures of surfing, the history of the Caithness and Sutherland Regions and how Ceefax (remember Ceefax?!) & the BBC weather report were useful tools in a surfer's arsenal. We also talk about the Sport, “islands”, people, and politics conference that Matt is organising on Scottish island of Orkney in June 2025. All in all, it's an hour's worth of insightful research on an under-developed part of Sports History.
About Our guest: Dr Matthew L. McDowell is a Lecturer in Sport Policy, Management, and International Development at the University of Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education and Sport. He is the author of A Cultural History of Association Football in Scotland, 1865-1902 (2013), and an editor of The International Journal of the History of Sport. Previously, Matt was Chair of the British Society of Sports History (2017-19) and an editor of Northern Scotland (2020-23) and has a PhD in Scottish history from the University of Glasgow. His other publications examine a variety of phenomena in the history of Scottish, British Empire/Commonwealth, and Atlantic Rim sport, including: football, sporting events, lifestyle sport, curling, and sport’s relationship with politics. Matt is originally from New Jersey he has resided in Scotland for almost twenty years.
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In this seminar paper, the enabling potential of ‘speed’ is theorized to study how bowling fast on cricket field has increasingly allowed a section of working-class and lower-middle class young Indian males to assert their claim over the metropolitan and cosmopolitan world of the game in contemporary India. The argument developed in this paper is how a bodily ideal and aspiration espoused by a group of working-class fast bowlers can be taken as a form of negotiation and upward mobility as against to an elite, upper-caste bodily ideology celebrated and enthusiastically embraced by batters. It begins by examining how the problem of not having enough fast bowlers shaped the colonial and postcolonial imagination on a discursive level. The chapter then attends the possibilities inaugurated by the raftaar (speed) for a group of interlocutors to theorize their bodily-world and the various alternative meanings they deploy to challenge dominant, upper caste masculinity and claim national and international stage of the game.
Abhinava Srivastava is a fifth-year PhD scholar in the department of sociology at Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, India. His research project is centred on locating postcolonial subjectivities through an ethnographic encounter with India’s rapidly changing ‘Cricket Culture’. His thesis explores meanings, values, and claims that are produced through the appropriation of the game at various demographic level that range from the international to local. Such an exploration offers a promising account of the distinct cosmopolitan sensibility, idiom and expectation around Cricket Culture that goes into the making of new postcolonial culture and social identity in India.
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Taking inspiration from Derek Birley's 'The Willow Wand,' this talk begins by exploring some of the myths surrounding Ethiopian running. Michael Crawley explores some of the insights gained through 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork with marathon runners in Ethiopia. In particular, he argues that Ethiopian runners understand 'energy' to be a limited resource, which makes training together, and the social relationships necessary to do this well, particularly important. Towards the end of the talk, he explores the articulation of change in sport and broader society in relation to Ethiopian running and endurance sport more broadly.
Dr Michael Crawley is a social anthropologist and Assistant Professor at Durham University. His first book, 'Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia' won the American Anthropological Association's Margaret Mead Award in 2022. His current work is on endurance sport, self-tracking technologies and performance enhancement in cross-cultural comparison. His sophomore book 'To the Limit: The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas' is due to be published with Bloomsbury Sport on the 12th of September 2024.
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How can we understand the meaning of wartime football? This talk tries to tackle a small part of this question by exploring the history and contemporary reception of one wartime result. In doing so, it aims to illustrate some of the influences on Football’s Great War by writers like Tony Mason, Mike Huggins, and Adrian Gregory, and how they helped shape an approach to tackling this question.
This talk reflects on how the result came about, how people reacted at the time, and how this was shaped by their understanding and experience of sacrifice during the First World War. In doing so, it will also explore how Edwardian ideas and concepts of amateurism and sportsmanship shaped, and in turn, were reshaped by wartime conditions.
Dr Alexander Jackson has been a curator at the National Football Museum in Manchester since 2011. In 2014 he was the lead curator for the Greater Game: Football and the First World War. This inspired research that led to Football’s Great War: Association Football on the English Home Front, 1914-1918 (Pen & Sword). In 2023, he was one of 10 individual winners in the National Archive’s These Streets local history competition. He welcomes any interest in the NFM’s collections and helps support researchers wishing to use them.
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