Podcasts about sport history

In this episode, we explore the recent history of women's sports, particularly basketball, in college and professionally -including in the 90's, when the first women's professional league was established - the American Basketball League or ABL, followed closely by the WNBA. With increased attention and interest on women's college basketball, and an acknowledgement of the high level of play and skill, the hope is that women's basketball, soccer, and other sports, will get the attention and fan base they have deserved for years. But women's sports have been in the spotlight before. How is this moment similar, and different, to what we have seen in the past. My guest is Sarah Fields, Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado, Denver; and President of the North American Society for Sport History. (photo courtesy Tulane Public Relations)

Racism is an integral issue in the arena of sport, but how can its history and mediated culture assist in breaking down barriers for athletes moving forward?In this episode of the Experts in Sport podcast, hosted by Martin Foster, Dr Nik Dickerson, from Loughborough University's School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, features as a guest to discuss the wider issues surrounding racism and its entwinement with masculinity in sport media.Highly contested issues within sport are decoded, including Colin Kaepernick's explicit protest (taking the knee during the national anthem at an NFL game) to highlight racial injustices facing African American men, as well as incidences of police brutality.

You will find our episode this week all about What ifs in Cincinnati sport history.  We will dive into some of the most famous what ifs and give our opinions on what could the results would be IF the said event did not happen.  But first we talk the week that was in Cincy Sports.  Charlie had a good trivia question this week:  check it out and see if you can answer it.we will be back in two week on April 21 for our NFL mock draft podcast.  IG: CincySportSceneEmail: Csspodcasts@yahoo.comTwitter: CincySportsScen

Sometimes the foundation of a dynasty can lead to unexpected outcomes. Minos II of Crete- great-grandson of Zeus and Europa- is about to find out that a tryst between his wife Pasiphae and a bull is going to create a monster... Sources for this episode: The Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica (2024), Minoan civilisation (online) (Accessed 29/02/2024). Frazer, J. G. (1921), Apollodorus: The Library (Volume I). London: William Heinemann. Graham, J. W. (1957), The Central Court as the Minoan Bull Ring. American Journal of Archaeology 61(3): 255-262. Jones, W. H. S. (1918), Pausanias Description of Greece. In Six Volumes. Volume I: Books I and II. London and New York: William Heinemann and G. P. Putnam's Sons. Mylonas, G. E. (1940), Athens and Minoan Crete. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 51(Supplementary Volume I): 11-36. Oldfather, C. H. (1993), Diodorus of Sicily: the Library of History. Books IV.59- VIII. London and Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Robertson, J. (1788), The Parian Chronicle, or the Chronicle of the Arundelian Marbles; with a Dissertation Concerning its Authenticity. London: J. Walter, Charing Cross. Thompson, J. G. (1986): The Location of Minoan Bull-Sports: A Consideration of the Problem. Journal of Sport History 13(1): 5-13. Wójcik, E. and Szostek, M. (2019), Assessment of genome stability in various breeds of cattle. PLOS ONE 14(6): e0217799. Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Europa (consort of Zeus) (online) (Accessed 29/02/2024).

Wednesday's edition on SEN WA Breakfast with Scott Cummings & Tim Gossage. On today's show: Leading WA Horse Trainer - Simon Miller; AFL 2023 Draft Prospect - Koltyn Tholstrup; Fremantle Dockers Legend - Paul Hasleby; and Head of Content for Ladbrokes - Tom Hackett. Plus Goss and Scotty reveal their 'Top 5 Underachievers in Sport History'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The convergence of sport, decoloniality, and the environment presents a labyrinth of intricate ideas, and as we delve into their interconnectedness, the complexity deepens.Joining us on this informative journey is Samuel Clevenger, an Assistant Professor at Towson University in the USA, who has been trying to unpack some of this intersection. We start with the radical concept of decoloniality—an evolution beyond mere decolonisation. Through philosophical references and anecdotes, we raise instances where sport has been wielded to perpetuate a Western-centric worldview, shaping notions of identity, imagery, and competition. Then, in contrast, we examine examples where Western sports were recast more in the image of the indigenous people who were pressured to play them.As we pivot to the environmental repercussions, a canvas of broader societal critiques unfurls. The discourse expands to encompass profound themes like climate justice, athlete and fan burnout, and the nuances of degrowth or post-growth.Whether you're a sports enthusiast, an environmental advocate, or simply curious about the multifaceted connections between these realms, there are undoubtedly ideas in this episode of interest to you.Support the showPlease feel free to reach out to the show onWeb: sustainingsport.comInstagram: @sustainingsportLinkedin: /sustaining-sportFacebook: @sustainingsportTwitter: @SustainSportPodDonate to our patreon.com/sustainingsportor contact us at: benmole@sustainingsport.com

Per la prima volta nella storia, l'Inghilterra prendeva parte, nel 1950, ai Mondiali di calcio, con tutta l'intenzione di vincerli. Invece, sulla sua strada finì per trovare una squadra di lavoratori e immigrati decisi a impedirglielo: era tutto ciò che restava del florido movimento del calcio statunitense, dissolto dalla Grande Depressione. LE FONTI USATE PER QUESTO EPISODIO: Copies of old newspapers reveal a World Cup myth, The British Newspaper Archive DOUGLAS Geoffrey, The Game of Their Lives: The Untold Story of the World Cup's Biggest Upset, It Books, 2005 MORMINO Gary Ross, The Playing Fields of St. Louis: Italian Immigrants and Sports, 1925-1941, Journal of Sport History, 1982 When England-USA served up one of the World Cup's biggest upsets, FIFA.com La musica è "Inspired" di Kevin MacLeod [incompetech.com] Licenza C.C. by 4.0 Potete seguire Pallonate in Faccia ai seguenti link: https://pallonateinfaccia.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pallonateinfacciablog https://twitter.com/pallonatefaccia https://www.instagram.com/pallonateinfaccia/ Per contattarmi: pallonateinfaccia@gmail.com SOSTENETE PALLONATE IN FACCIA!

Vander Clyde Broadway went by a few different names in his life, but Barbette is the one he got famous with. He was a female impersonator from Texas who became the toast of Paris in the 1920s. Research:         Ninesling, Rosie. “Meet Barbette, Round Rock's Cross-Dressing Performer From the 1920s.” Austin Monthly. December 2021. https://www.austinmonthly.com/meet-barbette-round-rocks-cross-dressing-performer-from-the-1920s/         Kendall Curlee, “Broadway, Vander Clyde [Barbette],” Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/broadway-vander-clyde-barbette         Steegmuller, Francis. “An Angel, a Flower, a Bird.”  The New Yorker. Sept. 27, 1969. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1969/09/27/an-angel-a-flower-a-bird         Pryor, Thomas M. “Hollywood Arena: ‘Big Circus' Troupe Works to Equal Big Top's Authenticity and Color.” New York Times. January 11, 1959. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/01/11/83434437.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0         Gils, Bieke. “Flying, Flirting, and Flexing: Charmion's Trapeze Act, Sexuality, and Physical Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Journal of Sport History, vol. 41, no. 2, 2014, pp. 251–68. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jsporthistory.41.2.251         Dimock, Chase. “ “THE SURREAL SEX OF BEAUTY: JEAN COCTEAU AND MAN RAY'S ‘LE NUMÉRO BARBETTE.'” As It Ought to Be. June 2, 2011. https://asitoughttobemagazine.com/2011/06/02/the-surreal-sex-of-beauty-jean-cocteau-and-man-rays-le-numero-barbette/         “Barbette in Amazing Feats at the Palace.” New York Times. Feb. 8, 1927. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/02/08/110039993.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0         Gallico, Paul. “Thinking Aloud: give a Cheer for an Artist.” The San Francisco Examiner. April 28, 1948. https://www.newspapers.com/image/458500827/?terms=vander%20barbette&match=1         Cole Brothers Circus Is Rehearsing in Louisville This Year for the Last Time.” The Courier-Journal. April 10, 1949. https://www.newspapers.com/image/110868149/?terms=vander%20barbette&match=1         “150 From Circus Recover After Food Poisoning.” Evening Star. June 19, 1943. https://www.newspapers.com/image/868025427/?terms=vander%20barbette&match=1         “New  Cole Brothers Circus Puts Emphasis on Beauty.” Globe-Gazette. July 8, 1949. https://www.newspapers.com/image/724153/?terms=vander%20barbette&match=1         Atkinson, J. Brooks. “Songs, Dances and Costumes.” New York Times. Feb, 13, 1927. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/02/13/98532388.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0         “From Round Rock to the Moulin Rouge: The Story of Barbette.” Round Rock ISD. https://history.roundrockisd.org/from-round-rock-to-the-moulin-rouge-the-story-of-barbette/         “Vander Barbette Is Dead at 68; Trapeze Artist in the Twenties.” New York Times. Aug. 10, 1973. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/08/10/148684612.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0         Estrada, John-Carlos. “#TBT: From Round Rock to the Moulin Rouge, meet aerialist and drag performer Barbette.” CBS Austin. Aug. 19, 2022. https://cbsaustin.com/newsletter-daily/tbt-from-round-rock-to-the-moulin-rouge-meet-aerialist-and-drag-performer-barbette-vander-clyde-broadway-female-impersonator-french-poet-jean-cocteau-paris-alfaretta-sisters-world-famous-aerial-queens-1969-new-yorker-article-strange-beauty-wire-walker See omny.fm/listener for privacy information.

Staf goes Across the Ditch to catch up with our SEN mate Jimmy Smith, talking Super Rugby, Ashes, and State of Origin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features a paper given by Alec Hurley at the British Society of Sport History's Sport & Leisure History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research in London. Though sport clubs are universal, there exists – as nineteenth century French diplomat Alexis DeTocqueville claimed – a uniquely American disposition toward the formation of associations. This presentation will examine the role of nineteenth-century urban sports clubs through the nexus of place, space, and cultural identity. In doing so, I will bring together digital history, urban history, and local community histories to understand cultural relationships in a post-industrial city. Literature on smaller industrial areas, as opposed to large metropoles, remains underexamined. Roy Rosenzweig addressed that concern in his work on the labor history of immigrants in Worchester, Massachusetts, when he claimed, “the evidence from one medium-sized city can only resolve these questions in tentative ways.” He did, however, provide a caveat that if reliable data could be elicited from comparative cities, scholars could draw grander conclusions. My choice of location: Rochester, New York, fits the requirements for Rosenzweig's comparative city. As such this presentation will explore how I used and continue to use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to demonstrate the interaction, evolution, and shifting impact that various ethnic communities had on the physical infrastructure and cultural development of Rochester. With a goal of expanding the research on a global scale, this presentation offers insight into the expansive and groundbreaking intersection of sport studies, the digital humanities, and multicultural narratives. Alec S. Hurley is an adjunct professor at St. John Fisher University in Rochester, NY, where he teaches courses across the sport humanities. This presentation is derived from his dissertation, which he completed in the summer of 2022 from the University of Texas at Austin under the guidance of Dr. Thomas Hunt. He has published and presented internationally on sport, cultural identity, and urban community.

For the first time World Cup history, the tournament is hosted in the Middle East. Football has always been more than just a game in the Middle East.  Seen sometimes as a symbol of decolonisation and regime legitimisation, it also plays a role in fostering national identities. In the region, the beautiful game is intertwined with culture, politics and history. As the World Cup in Qatar is now underway, we explore the culture in history of football in the region. In this episode:  Abdullah Al-Arian (@anhistorian), author and associate professor at Georgetown University in Qatar. Episode credits: This episode was produced by Khaled Soltan and our intern Nada Shakir.  Our sound designer is George Alwer. The lead engagement producer is Aya Elmileik and the assistant engagement producer is Munera Al Dosari. Our executive producer is Omar Al Saleh. Ney Alvarez is the head of audio. The show is hosted by Sami Zeidan.  Connect with us: @AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook

The Peekskill Riots surrounded a concert by singer and activist Paul Robeson. His stances on political and civil rights issues and his communist affiliations catalyzed protests that were fueled with an undercurrent of racism and antisemitism. Research: American Civil Liberties Union. “Violence in Peekskill: A Report on the Violations of Civil Liberties at Two Paul Robeson Concerts near Peekskill, NY.” 1949. By LANSING WARREN Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. "Paris 'Peace Congress' Assails U. S. and Atlantic Pact, Upholds Soviet: MEETING AT 'PEACE CONGRESS' IN PARIS CONGRESS IN PARIS ASSAILS U. S. POLICY." New York Times (1923-), Apr 21 1949, p. 1. ProQuest. Web. 31 Aug. 2022 . Congress, House, Committee on Un-American Activities, Investigation of the Unauthorized Use of U.S. Passports, 84th Congress, Part 3, June 12, 1956; in Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938–1968, Eric Bentley, ed. (New York: Viking Press, 1971), 770. Courtney, Steve. “Peekskill's days of infamy: The Robeson riots of 1949.” The Reporter Dispatch, September 5, 1982. http://www.bencourtney.com/peekskillriots/ Democracy “VIDEO: Pete Seeger Recalls the 1949 Peekskill Riot Where He And Paul Robeson Were Attacked.” 1/31/2014. https://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/31/video_pete_seeger_recalls_the_1949 Dorinson, Joseph. “Paul Robeson and Jackie Robinson: Athletes and Activists at Armageddon.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies , Winter 1999, Vol. 66, No. 1, Paul Robeson. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27774174 Horne, Field. "Peekskill riots." Encyclopedia of New York State, edited by Peter R. Eisenstadt and Laura-Eve Moss, Syracuse UP, 2005, p. 1190. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A194197875/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=25d15b16. Accessed 30 Aug. 2022. Horne, Gerald. “Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary.” Pluto Press. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt19b9jxj.9 Hudson River Maritime Museum. “Paul Robeson and the Peekskill Riots.” 1/18/2021. https://www.hrmm.org/history-blog/paul-robeson-and-the-peekskill-riots Huggins, Nathan Irvin. "Paul Robeson." The Nation, vol. 248, no. 11, 20 Mar. 1989, pp. 383+. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A7424117/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=6617e02c. Accessed 30 Aug. 2022. Karp, Jonathan D. “Performing Black-Jewish Symbiosis: The ‘Hassidic Chant' of Paul Robeson.” American Jewish History, Volume 91, Number 1, March 2003. https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2004.0032 "Remembering Peekskill." Jacobin Magazine, 22 June 2017, p. NA. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A675159334/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=459a974b. Accessed 30 Aug. 2022. Robeson, Paul. “The Negro people and the Soviet Union.” 1950. https://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A4785 Salkin, Jeffrey K. “Inside The 1949 Westchester KKK Attack Where Rioters Chanted ‘We're Hitler's Boys'” Forward. 8/26/2019. https://forward.com/culture/113279/peekskill-riots-1949-westchester-kkk-fascist-attack-jewish-black-attendees/ Shea, Rich. “Paul Robeson Football Star.” Rutgers Today. 3/13/2019. https://www.rutgers.edu/news/paul-robeson-football-star Smith, Ronald A. “The Paul Robeson—Jackie Robinson Saga and a Political Collision.” Journal of Sport History , Summer 1979, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Summer 1979). Via JSTOR. : https://www.jstor.org/stable/43608951 Walwik, Joseph. “Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies Vol. 66, No. 1, Paul Robeson (1898-1976)—A Centennial Symposium (Winter 1999).” Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27774178 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Professor Richard Holt, whose critical sport on British sport history, opens the BSSH's 40th anniversary with a retrospective keynote on the development of British sport history and the areas still in need of historical attention. We are thankful to Professor Holt for a fascinating paper, which can also be found in print form online at https://www.sportinhistory.org/articles/taking-stock-british-sports-history-forty-years

Join Conor and Professor Mike Cronin for a retrospective discussion on Professor Cronin's own career in Irish sport history, the rise of sport history as a discipline in Ireland and the areas still in need of attention. Professor Mike Cronin has been the Academic Director of Boston College Ireland since 2005. He was educated at the University of Kent and Oxford University where he was awarded his D.Phil. He has published widely on various aspects of Irish history, and is a renowned scholar in the area of sport. He is a regular media commentator on aspects of Irish and sporting history. While at BC, Professor Cronin has developed a series of major public history projects based around Irish topics including the 2008-12 GAA Oral History Project, and since 2013, the major online repository and real time history project for the Irish Decade of Centenaries, Century Ireland.

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According to The Age (22/03/22)  AFL Top Banana, Gil McLachlan is confident Season 2022 will be the first normal football season since COVID hit. Normal? Has there ever really been such a thing as far as football fixtures and seasons go? Join John and new co-host Andrew 'Gigs' Gigacz as they take a look the idea of fixtures, football and notions of normality.

Welcome to the 427th episode of COVID-Calls, a daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. My name is Jacob Steere-Williams, I am a historian of public health at the College of Charleston, in South Carolina, and I'm thrilled to be hosting the program this week. Dr. Kathleen Bachynski is an assistant professor of public health at Muhlenberg College. Dr. Bachynski's work on public health is wide-ranging, but she is a leading expert on brain injuries, sports, injury prevention, youth health, and risk. Her book, No Game for Boys to Play: The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis has been called by one scholar called “smart, salient, timely, eminently readable, and socially important.” It's a terrific book and I highly suggest everyone order a copy. Dr. Johanna Mellis is an assistant professor of World History at Ursinus (Er-sigh-nus) College outside of Philadelphia and was a former D-I swimmer at the College of Charleston and a former swim coach. She is a historian of Cold War sport who analyzes sporting interactions between Hungary, the International Olympic Committee, and the US. She is a co-host of the End of Sport podcast that explores capitalist sport, labor, and justice for the end of times and has written pieces for the Guardian, Time, Washington Post, and LA Times, and also for the Journal of Sport History and Contemporary European History. I am so excited to read the book she is working on, Changing the Global Game: Hungarian Athletes and International Sport during the Cold War.

In this episode, three of our Master Bikini Contest Prep Coaches and our team's designated Posing and Stage Look Coach sit down for a fun conversation about the lessons they've learned over their combined 32 years of contest prep experience, share their embarrassing first stage looks, the history of one of our team's beloved sport, non-negotiables for athletes and our predictions for the 2022 Arnold Sports Festival.    Please let us know what you'd like us to discuss next! To learn more about our Contest Prep services: https://fitblissfitness.com/competition-prep Follow our prep team on Instagram @fitbliss_elite  Coaches featured:  @fitbliss_lynnds @chantelhall_ifbbpro @sami.g.fit @instannie.com Lifestyle coaching:  @teamfitbliss   

Ongoing debates about how digital technologies impact children's health and well-being often frame sports as the opposite  or even antidote to sedentary screen time. For centuries, children's sports have served as a symbol of a “good” childhood -- one that privileges some children while historically excluding many others, especially girls, Black children, and children of colour. In this episode, Dr. Sara Grimes (Director of the KMDI) chats with Dr. Samantha White, Assistant Professor of Sport Studies at Manhattanville College (New York), about her work on children's sporting cultures at the intersection of race and gender, and how mapping the history and politics of children and sports is crucial for understanding contemporary ideas about childhood. The discussion focuses on two of Dr. White's recent articles, “Ebony Jr! and the Black Athlete: Meritocracy, Sport, and African-American Children's Media” (Journal of Sport History, 2020), and “Black Girls Swim: Race, Gender, and Embodied Aquatic Histories” (Girlhood Studies, 2021). Type of research discussed in today's episode: sports studies; historical research; archival research; textual/media analysis; communication studies; Black studies; gender studies; children's studies.Keywords for today's episode: Black girl athletes; child athletes; children's sporting culture; media representation; meritocracy; spectacular sports; embodied respectability.For more information and a full transcript of each episode, check out our website: http://kmdi.utoronto.ca/the-critical-technology-podcast/Send questions or comments to: criticaltechpod.kmdi@utoronto.ca

Dr. Katelyn Aguilar, the newest member of the Gustavus Department of History, on growing up in an inclusive household as the daughter of a high-school basketball coach in Indiana, her path to African American and Sport History, her research on what the University of Miami's football team of the mid-1980s had to do with the rise of the New Right embodied by Ronald Reagan, protest by Black athletes and the new Netflix series on Colin Kaepernick, early impressions of Gustavus, and why history matters. Click here for a transcript.

It's the turbulent history of cricket and society in South Africa in this episode of the Sport in History Podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research. This week Geoff talks to the cricket historian and previous podcast guest Dr Richard Parry. Rich - as he's known to friends - talks at a live event about his latest book, 'Too Black to Wear Whites', which is a pioneering biography of the black fast bowler Krom Hendricks. In his day Hendricks was the best bowler in the world but never got the chance to play cricket for his country due to the racist colonial government then operating in South Africa. The event was kindly hosted by the London bookshop All Good Bookshop with Jawaid Luqwani acting as host. https://allgoodbookshop.co.uk https://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/too-black-wear-whites Dr Richard Parry left South Africa during his student years in the 1970s as a conscientious objector against the racist apartheid state and completed a Masters at Queen's University, Canada which examined the role of Cecil Rhodes in the development of a segregated society on the Cape. His subsequent PhD at Queen's examined black worker resistance to colonial power in Rhodesia. While working as a civil servant in the UK and for the OECD in Paris he has continued to write history which combines his love of cricket with his established interest in the resistance to colonialism in Africa.

C'est le sport le plus cool et le plus suivi à la fin du 19e siècle ! Adhérez à cette chaîne pour obtenir des avantages : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN4TCCaX-gqBNkrUqXdgGRA/join Pour soutenir financièrement la chaîne, trois choix: 1. Cliquez sur le bouton « Adhérer » sous la vidéo. 2. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hndl 3. UTip: https://utip.io/lhistoirenousledira Avec: Laurent Turcot, professeur en histoire à l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada Abonnez-vous à ma chaine: https://www.youtube.com/c/LHistoirenousledira Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/histoirenousledira Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurentturcot Les vidéos sont utilisées à des fins éducatives selon l'article 107 du Copyright Act de 1976 sur le Fair-Use. Pour aller plus loin: Matthew Algeo, Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport, Chicago, Chicago Review Press, 2014. John A. Lucas, « Pedestrianism and the struggle for the Sir John Astley Belt, 1878-1879 », Research Quarterly. American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Vol. 39, 1968, p. 587-594. Dahn Shaulis, « Pedestriennes: Newsworthy but Controversial Women in Sporting Entertainment », Journal of Sport History, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Spring 1999), pp. 29-50 Jim Reisler, Walk of Ages: Edward Payson Weston's Extraordinary 1909 Trek Across America, University of Nebraska Press, 2015. Ari de Wilde, « Six‐day racing entrepreneurs and the emergence of the twentieth century arena sportscape, 1891‐1912 », Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, Vol. 4, no 4, 2012, p. 532-553. Greg Salvesen, « Six-day footraces in the post-pedestrianism era », Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2019. In The 1870s And '80s, Being A Pedestrian Was Anything But https://www.npr.org/2014/04/03/297327865/in-the-1870s-and-80s-being-a-pedestrian-was-anything-but #histoire #documentaire #sport

In this episode of “The Journey of My Mother's Son” podcast, I sit down to talk with the secretary and official historian of the AAGPBL Players Association, Merrie Fidler. Merrie is also a published author.  She published the book, The Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 2006.  The book was originally her master's thesis, and as she became more involved with the players association, several of the former players were so impressed with her work, that they convinced her to get it published.  Merrie donates a large portion of the proceeds from her book to the players association. Her biography, as taken from her author website, merriefidler.com is as follows: Born at the end of October 1943, a month and a half after the All-American Girls Baseball League's first season of play, Merrie Fidler grew up near Redding, California. She was raised in a sports-minded family and participated in interscholastic and intercollegiate volleyball, basketball and softball from junior high through her college under-graduate years. At age 15 she joined the Redding Comets, the city women's softball team. For four summers she played left field, catcher, or third base for the Comets. After completing an undergraduate major in physical education and obtaining a teaching credential from Sacramento State University in Sacramento, California, Merrie was hired, in the fall of 1971, as an Assistant Intramural Sports Director at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. It was in UMass's Sports Studies master's degree program where Merrie discovered, researched, and completed her master's thesis entitled The Development and Decline of the All-American Girls Baseball League, 1943-1954. The thesis was largely based on documents obtained from league owner Arthur E. Meyerhoff and South Bend team president Harold T. Dailey. Before completing her thesis in 1976, Merrie worked as an Assistant Intramural Sports Director at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, and attended Penn State University as a doctoral candidate in Sport History. After a year at Penn State, Merrie returned to the Redding, California area where she embarked on a 27-year teaching and coaching career for the Anderson Union High School District. Following her retirement at the end of the 2003 school year, Merrie attended her first AAGPBL reunion since the opening of the “Women in Baseball” exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY in November 1988. It was there that she was encouraged by former players to publish her master's thesis. During 2003-2005, Merrie obtained additional information about the league from numerous player interviews and Players' Association Newsletters and Board Meeting Minutes.

When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, baseball had been America's national past time for about 60 years. The start of the war also coincided with the start of the 1917 MLB season. Many professional ballplayers would serve in the military, forcing MLB's response to the war to evolve over the 1917-1919 seasons. At the same time, American troops in Europe created hundreds of baseball diamonds and played thousands of baseball games during the war and the occupation that followed. To discuss baseball and World War I, we recently sat down with Al Barnes, co-author of the book Play Ball!: Doughboys and Baseball during the Great War.

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Sport and the Cold War is the focus for this week's episode with Geoff talking to Dr Heather Dichter of the International Centre for Sport History and Culture at De Montfort University. There were some technical issues on Geoff's side but do persevere, the sound quality gets better! It was a wide-ranging discussion in which Heather talked about her latest publications, the first being an article for the International Journal of the History of Sport on the roots of corruption in the dubious practices of bid committees for the 1968 Summer and Winter Olympics. She also talked about her editorship of a new collection on Soccer Diplomacy, in which she has a chapter on the way in which East Germany used its participation in FIFA and UEFA-organised tournaments in the 1960s to gain international recognition. There's also news of a virtual symposium being held on 19th June 2020 at the British Library in which Heather and other scholars will be exploring the archival resources available for researching Paralympic and Olympic History. And there's still time to talk to Heather about her work as review editor for the Journal of Sport History, and as an admin for H-Sport, the incredibly useful resource for sports historians, which among other things publishes a database of the latest research into sport history from around the globe. Dr Heather Dichter teaches sport management and sport history at De Montfort University where she is part of the team at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture. Her research interests are the Olympic Games, international sport, diplomacy and international relations, Germany, Europe and NATO. She has written a number of articles and chapters on the diplomacy and history of the Olympics, among other things. Dr Dichter is a valued member of many organisations working in the field of sport history and in recognition of this in 2019 she received the ISHPES Award for her work in the field.

The history of sport and Hungary in this podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Dr. Johanna Mellis of Ursinus College in the United States. Conor talks to Johanna about her work on the relationship between sport and politics in Hungary during the Cold War and how defectors were viewed by those who remained loyal to the Communist régime. Johanna also talks about the challenges of conduction oral history in a second language and her teaching of sport history at a college where approaching 40% of the students are athletes. Dr. Johanna Mellis is an Assistant Professor of History at Ursinus College near Philadelphia, PA where she teaches courses in world/global history, European history, and sport and oral history. She received her PhD in History at the University of Florida in 2018, where she worked with the prestigious Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (https://oral.history.ufl.edu). Her research connects the history of Hungarian sport to the global arena of international sport during the Cold War by using oral histories to show how Hungarian athletes shaped not only their lives under the socialist system, but also the worldwide governance of the International Olympic Committee. Her first article, “Cold War Politics and the California Running Scene,” is based on her collaborative oral history project with Dr. Toby Rider, titled “The Cold War Athlete-Refugee in CA Oral History Project.” It is the subject of her second project about the experiences and politics of sporting defectors from the Eastern Bloc to the West in the Cold War (http://bit.ly/2QVUleQ). In her most recent article, “From Defectors to Cooperators,” she analyzes how the momentous events of 1956 in Hungary influenced athletes and socialist sport leaders alike to cooperate with—and not work against—one another, in order to achieve their own goals from the 1960s-1980s (http://bit.ly/2QpNb3W). She is also starting to work on a collaborative oral history project with Dr. Emese Ivan of St. John's University. The first of its kind in studies about Eastern Bloc sport, the project will consist of interviews with a women's basketball team who trained at Hungary's Central Sport School in the 1970s. Dr. Mellis can be found on Twitter @JohannaMellis

Weightlifting and sport diplomacy in this podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Conor talk to Sam Schelfhout of the Institute of Kinesiology at the University of Texas in Austin. You can read Sam's co-authored article with John Fair, ‘Lifting ‘Round the World': The Goodwill Weightlifting Tours of 1955′ online via the International Journal of the History of Sport. Sam Schelfhout is a Ph.D. candidate in physical culture & sport studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary research interests focus on sport and its role in United States diplomacy and international relations and the history of sport diplomacy during the Cold War. In addition, he is interested in the evolution of esports and video games and their increasing inclusivity with traditional sports in interdisciplinary sport studies. Schelfhout earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in political science and economics from the University of Portland in 2014 and a Master of Science degree in sport management from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017.

The history of international cricket in this podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Geoff talking to Allister Webb about Yorkshire and Glamorgan County Cricket Clubs. This episode was recorded in lieu of Allister giving his paper at the Sport & Leisure History Seminar at the IHR, which of course was cancelled due to the coronavirus. It was the first time wrestling with video conferencing for the podcast for those of us this side of the Atlantic so please bear with the occasional techncial blips. And Allister proved prescient on the prospects for the Olympics and cricket this summer! Allister is a part-time PhD student at Manchester Metropolitan University, researching public attitudes towards the staging of contemporary sports events in relation to cricket, and he previously completed an MA in Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University. The title of Allister's paper was ‘Why history matters in contemporary sporting events: A case study of the bidding process for international cricket matches in England and Wales.' If you'd like to hear Allister give his paper we'll be rescheduling the seminar for the next academic year when all being well the pandemic will have passed.

Sport and apartheid in this podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Conor talk to Tanya Jones of the Institute of Kinesiology at the University of Texas in Austin. Tanya's doctoral thesis examines the history of the anti-apartheid movement in the United States where she looks at the career of human rights activist and sports management academic Richard Lapchick. Tanya talks about the complexity of researching a living subject and situating him in the historical context of the human rights struggle from the 1968 Olympics onwards and the campaign against racial discrimination in the US and South Africa. There's some strong testimony in here about the violence of the struggle so listen on to find out more. Tanya Jones is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at The University of Texas at Austin.Hher field, broadly, is sport studies, and her focus is on the intersection of race, politics, and sport. Specifically, Tanya's research concentrates on the history of modern sport and race and its role in the formation of society. Her graduate research in the past five years has involved the history of sporting boycotts in the United States surrounding apartheid South Africa.

Sport and art again in this podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Geoff talking to Veronica Smith of the University of York. Geoff talks to Veronica about the stained glass in the beautiful Victoria Baths in Manchester. Those of us of a certain age will remember the baths featuring in the BBC's television show Restoration in the 1990s. Veronica's research looks at the gender and class hierarchies embodied in the glasswork and puts them into the context of wider Edwardian society. There's also time to talk about the hard slog of researching stained glass in pubs and a quick plug for how friendly the BSSH's conference is! Raf also fills us in on the upcoming seminars from the BSSH featuring sport in Ireland with Dr Liam Callaghan and the Cricket World Cup with Allister Webb. Veronica Smith is currently studying for a PhD in History of Art, exploring the pivotal role of stained glass in municipal and domestic architecture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in British cities. She has previously published work on stained glass firms of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Sport and modernism in art in this podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Geoff talking to Dr Bernard Vere of the Sotheby's Institute of Art. Geoff talks to Bernard about the relationship between sport and modernist art and architecture in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century in a wide-ranging discussion that takes in Robert Delanunay's landmark work, The Cardiff Team, the battle of styles between tennis champions Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills, fascist architecture and Darlington's (much-lamented) Feethams ground. They also cover British Modernism with a discussion of David Bomberg's work Jui Jitsu, currently (Jan 2020) on display at the National Gallery in London. Dr Bernard Vere is the author of Sport and Modernism in the Visual Arts in Europe, 1909–1949 (Manchester University Press, 2018). He is Programme Director of the MA in Fine and Decorative Art and Design at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London. He has also written the essays ‘Pedal-Powered Avant-Gardes: Cycling Paintings in 1912–1913' (International Journal of the History of Sport, 2011), ‘BLAST SPORT: Vorticism, Sport and William Roberts's Boxers' (Modernism/ Modernity, 2017) and ‘A “Modern Rendezvous” in London: Painters, Pilots, and Edward Wadsworth's A Short Flight (1914)' (British Art Studies, 2017). He is currently working on an essay looking at ‘The Young Man's Home', a 1935 collaboration between Fernand Léger, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier and René Herbst, to be included in the collection Sport and the European Avant-Garde, 1900–1945 (eds. Przemyslaw Strozek and Andreas Kramer, forthcoming from Brill).

Women's rugby in this podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Raf talking to Lydia Furse, who gave a paper at the seminar series in 2019, which featured as our first ever podcast episode. Lydia's PhD is a pioneering work on the development of women's rugby from its origins in late Victorian Britain through its transformation into the modern game in the 1970s and 1980s. Raf and Lydia talk about the difficulties and opportunities of using personal testimonies and interviews in investigating the intersection between the personal and the political in the context of overturning a century of accumulated prejudice against the participation of women in what has been perceived as the most masculine of sports in the British World. They also talk more generally about developments in women's history and the changing nature of feminism and its relationship to women's participation in sport. And Lydia's work has had a major public impact already with her research feeding into the way in which the World Rugby Museum at Twickenham has updated its displays to integrate women's rugby into the history of the game. Finally there's a discussion of the perils of peer review and Raf plugs the Society's grants available to postgrads and postdocs. Lydia Furse is a PhD candidate at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University working in collaboration with the World Rugby Museum in Twickenham.

German sport history in this week's podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Professor Kay Schiller of the University of Durham. It was a wide-ranging discussion in the rather noisy lobby of the British Library that acts as a preview to Kay's rescheduled paper to be given at the IHR some time in 2020. Kay is one of the leading researchers on the history of sport in Germany in the twentieth century and we talk about his new research project into the remarkable life of Alex Natan, the ‘fastest Jew in Germany'. Natan was an élite runner whose ethnicity led him to seek refuge in Britain in the 1930s before being interned in Canada as an enemy alien on the outbreak of war. We also talk about Kay's award-winning book, The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany, co-authored with Christopher Young, which won both the North American Society for Sport History Book Award and the Aberdare Prize from the British Society of Sports History for best sports history book published in 2010. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Sport in History, the BSSH's journal and we talk about the recent special issues of Sport in History edited by Jean Williams on women's football to the accompaniment of the BL's in-house John Coltrane. There was also time to mention Jon Hughes's excellent paper on the German boxer Walter Neusel, and also to hear about Kay's experience of attending the 1972 Games as a child.

The history of sport and the military in this week's podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Ryan Murtha of the University of Texas at Austin. Conor talks to Ryan about his work on the Tlatelolco Massacre in the run up to the 1968 Mexico Olympics. They also talk a new trend in sports history – lifestyle sports; that is non-competitive sports that took off after World War Two like body-building and, wind-surfing and surfing. In particular they discuss the 60s frisbee boom, which took off through a combination of the rise of plastics intersecting with the developing counter-culture before moving on to the history of weight-lifting in the US and the role of Dave Willoughby in its sportification. Ryan is a PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin. A Philadelphia native, Ryan studied at Villanova University before coming to Austin for graduate school. His research focuses on twentieth-century social movements and lifestyle sports. Ryan's writing has appeared in publications like Slate and Deadspin, and more of his writing can be found online at TalkinBoutPraxis.com or @ryanhoodie

The history of sport and the military in this week's podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Professor Gary Sheffield of the University of Wolverhampton talking about sport and the military during World War 1. Gary is one of the UK's leading historians of the First World War and it was a real pleasure to talk to him about the relationship between sport and pastoral care on the Western Front and Gallipoli during WW1. We also discuss how he was inspired to take an interest in history by reading a Ladybird book as a child, which was a small step on the way to academia and his first teaching post at Sandhurst Military Academy. We also talk about two hotly contested historical issues – the necessity of Britain going to war in 1914 to defend liberal democracy in Western Europe and the hoary chestnut of whether a football match took place between British and German troops on Christmas Day 1914. Gary is active in the Football and War Network, a network made up of historians of war with an interest in football, and football club historians. It aims to brings together historians from the academic and football worlds so that for the first time all the academic, practitioner and fan research centred around football, war and history can link up. Professor Gary Sheffield is the co-director, with Professor Stephen Badsey, of the First World War Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton, and he specialises in the history of Britain at war in the first half of the twentieth century. He is one of the nation's foremost historians of the First World War and was one of the historians consulted about how to commemorate the War's centenary years from 2014. Major works include ‘Forgotten Victory: The First World War – Myths and Realities' (Headline, 2001), ‘The Somme: A New History' (Cassell Military Paperbacks, 2004) and ‘Douglas Haig: From Somme to Victory' (Aurum Press, 2016). He is currently engaged on writing a book on the British and Dominion armies in the two world wars.

Sport in China in this week's podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Y. Andrew Hao, who is a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. And again it's a podcast takeover this week as Andrew is interviewed by the BSSH's Postgrad and Early Career Rep, Conor Heffernan. Andrew talks about his path into academia in the States and the role of sport in the development of Chinese foreign policy during the 1960 and 70s, as well as discussing his passion for tennis history. There's also some great detail on the pleasures of working in the archives in China but French historians should plug their ears when talk turns to who exactly was the President of France in 1966! Andrew is a regular attendee at the BSSH's conferences and there's room to discuss the various grants that are available for PG and ECR researchers to help them get the most out of their Society. Y. Andrew Hao is a Ph.D. Candidate in Physical Culture and Sport Studies at the H. J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports of the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin. You can find him on Twitter @andrewrhao. Andrew's research interests include the (international) political history of the Olympic Movement, history of sport and international relations, history of (East) Asian sports, and history of tennis. He has conducted archival research in the United States, China, and Europe and presented at the annual conferences of NASSH and BSSH. He received the 2019 PhD Students and Early Career Academics Research Grant from the International Olympic Committee's Olympic Studies Centre. Andrew was born and raised in Fushun and Shenyang, China. He completed his undergraduate degree in International Relations at Fudan University in Shanghai. He moved to Austin, TX in 2013 to pursue a master's degree in Kinesiology (Sport Management) before committing to the current Ph.D. study. Besides academia, he is a dedicated cinephile (his favourtie film of all time is The Tree of Life by Terrence Malick), an avid tennis player, a passionate trivia contestant, and a frequent world traveler (his favourite places besides Austin in the world are Berlin, Istanbul, Lausanne, and Tallinn).

Women's soccer in Ireland in this week's podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Helena Byrne, who is Curator of the Digital Archive at the British Library. Helena's paper discussed the development of Women's soccer in Ireland from the late nineteenth century, and in particular highlighted the boom in indoor soccer in the 1960s. Her work is part of an ongoing project that seeks to recover the history of the sport, a matter of some urgency now that the 60s generation is succumbing to old age. She also discusses the conference on 'Sidelines, touchlines and hemlines: Women in Irish Sport' that will take place in Dundlak on 28th February 2020. With her web archivist's hat on Helena also talked about the incredible range of digital resources that she and her colleagues have been working on that will be invaluable to historians of the 21st century both now and into the future. Helena Byrne is the Curator of Web Archives at the British Library. She was the Lead Curator on the IIPC CDG 2018 and 2016 Olympic and Paralympic collections. Helena completed her Master in Library and Information Studies at UCD in 2015. Previously she worked as an English language teacher in Turkey, South Korea and Ireland.

The history of rowing in this week's podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Alec Hurley, who is a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. And it's a podcast takeover this week as Alec is interviewed by the BSSH's Postgrad and Early Career Rep, Conor Heffernan. Alec first talks briefly about the development of sport in Britain's colonies in the nineteenth century before discussing his doctoral work on the history of rowing in Germany in the nineteenth century and its relationship to developments in Britain. Alec Hurley is a third year PhD Student at the University of Texas at Austin in the Physical Culture and Sport Studies Program. His research focus is on the intersection of Sport and Empire, with a proposed dissertation focus on the transcultural role of sport clubs in the development of the German Empire. Alec holds previous degrees in World History, Sport Management, and Broadcast Communication. Before turning his full attention to academia he was a rowing coach for nine years at clubs and universities across the United States.

Sport and the military in this week's podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Beth Gaskell, who is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Greenwich where she is completing a PhD on the British Army in the nineteenth century. She has also been active in HistoryLab, the postgraduate network for historians run by the Institute of Historical Research, as well as working as a curator of newspapers at the British Library. Beth talks about her work on the depiction of masculinity in regimental publications in the long nineteenth century and the way in which sport played an increasingly important role in the institutional memory of military institutions. She also talks more personally about juggling the demands of doing a PhD while working and being a mum, as well as the role that HistoryLab played in helping her to find her voice in academia. Beth Gaskell's research, funded through a Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship, investigates military writing, military-media relations and the professionalisation of the British Army in the long nineteenth century, with a particular focus on the rise of the professional periodical press. She is a qualified Librarian who has undertaken project work at the Royal Astronomical Society, and has previously held posts at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, the National Army Museum and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She has won two grants from RSVP (2015 and 2016) and a Cardiff University vlogging bursary to attend BAVS 2016. Her chapter on "Bibliographic Issues: Titles, Numbers, Frequencies" appeared in Researching the Nineteenth-Century Press: Case Studies (Routledge) in July 2017. She is currently curator of newspapers at the British Library.

Sport in the Royal Dockyard in this week's podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Dr Melanie Bassett, who is a Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth, where she manages the PTUC (port Towns & Urban Cultures) website. Mel talked to Geoff about a paper she gave at the IHR that was based on her PhD research into the sport and leisure activities of civilian employees in the Royal Dockyard in Portsmouth in the Edwardian period, including the incorporation of female workers during World War 1. Mel's work means that she is very active in public history, acting as a consultant on projects at Portsmouth City Museum, as well as helping to set up other public history projects in Portsmouth, and she talks about the judgements one has to make being an academic historian working in a public history environment. As part of this work she talks about the Portsmouth contribution to Supernatural Cities and DarkFest, whose app was going live on the day that the podcast was recorded. Dr Melanie Bassett is a Faculty Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth. She manages the PTUC website and social media outputs alongside undertaking her own research on port towns. Her PhD research, 'The Royal Dockyard Worker in Edwardian England: Culture, Leisure and Empire' re-examined the concept of a monolithic imperial identity and tracked the nuances of working-class imperialism.

UK women's sport governance in this week's podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with last week's host, Raf Nicholson, in the hot seat for the first of the BSSH's Sport in History seminars at the IHR. Raf talked about how women's sport in a number of organisations effectively became subject to male control as a result in changes to the funding of sport more generally in the late 1980s and 1990s. She gave a fascinating account of how certain sports were able to resist giving up female control while others faced a choice between bankruptcy or the acceptance of being consumed by their male counterparts.

The history of polo in this week's podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research. Geoff talks to postgraduate researcher Luise Elsaesser of the European Institute University about her prize-winning paper on the development of polo in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Luise's paper challenged Saidian views of the Orientalising process and British imperialism, and highlighted the way in which polo allowed a space for masculine display on an equal plane between colonist and coloniser. And we had a little time to talk about the BSSH's recent conference in Liverpool and Luise's new role as Membership Secretary of the Society before we were defeated by a group of waiters singing Happy Birthday to somebody. Luise also talked about her PhD research into the horse economy in Britain during the twentieth century and how a particular statue we both saw in Liverpool recently encapsulates the way in which the horse was central to British society before becoming eclipsed by the arrival of the tractor and the automobile. Luise Elsaesser is a post-graduate researcher at the European University Institute in Florence where she is completing a PhD on the rise and fall of the horse's role in British life. The paper that she presented at the Sport and Leisure History seminar was based on her prize-winning paper which she gave at the BSSH's 2018 conference at the University of Westminster.

The history of replica football kits in this week's podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research. Geoff talks to Dr Chris Stride of the University of Sheffield about the history of the replica kit from its inception in the 70s as a child's plaything to the 90s replica boom when all of a sudden even your Dad thought it was ok to wear a football shirt to the ground. Geoff manages to nail the tricky 'statistician' in the intro before stumbling over the relatively easy 'analysis' but fortunately Chris talks lucidly about how the rehabilitation of football's reputation began before the two epochal moments of Italia '90 and the formation of the English Premier League. Replica kits and their embrace by a new kind of left-leaning football fans was part of the process whereby football became the coolest sport of the Cool Britannia age. Chris also talks about another history project of his on sporting statues, where the public can help to build up his database of statues around the world. Tune in to hear about the curious Cold War backstory of Chris's favourite statue in Leipzig - go to the project's website to see this extraordinary piece of art. Dr Chris Stride is a Senior Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Sheffield but in addition to his work as a statistician he has a number of on-going projects on the history of sport, including an analysis of cheating in sport and a major study of sporting statues.

Football history in this week's podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research. Geoff talks to Professor Matt Taylor of De Montfort University about the paper he presented at the 2019 BSSH conference in Liverpool regarding sport in Britain during the Second World War. In particular we discuss the issue of Sunday sport - an issue that was far more controversial in the mid-twentieth century than it is nowadays. Matt also tells me about his role at the Internationational Centre for Sports History and Culture at DMU, as well as discussing his role as a PhD supervisor, and his unusual progress from undergrad to PhD student. Professor Matt Taylor is one of the UK's leading sports historians with several significant publications on the history of football in particular. His landmark work, 'The Association Game: A History of British Football' came out in 2008. This was followed up by a variety of articles and books, including 'The People's Game', a history of football during WW2. His forthcoming book on sport during the Second World War will be published by Routledge in 2021.

Geoff is talking to the post-graduate researcher Tom Weir about the development of the Special Olympics in the eleventh Sport in History Podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research. In a pinoeering research project Tom takes us through the difficult origins of bringing people with intellectual disabilities into the mainstream of participation of sport, with a little help from Superman (Christopher Reeve) along the way. There's also a discussion of the pioneering black rugby players, James Peters, the first known man of colour to win a cap for England in the early 1900s and his French counterpart, Georges Jérôme. Listen in also to find out about De Montfort University's International Centre for Sport History and Culture and its role in supporting Tom's research. You can also look up the World Rugby Museum to find out more about Tom's work there and I really do recommend a visit if you can make it in the run up to the Rugby Union World Cup in Japan later this year.

Welsh rugby history with Dr Huw Richards in the twelfth Sport in History Podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research. Huw tells us about 'The Bounce of the Century' which led to Wales' most recent victory over New Zealand in 1953 in a very tight encounter. We also chat about the hotly disputed try that saw the only defeat of the original touring All Blacks in 1905, as well as looking forward to Welsh prospects in this summer's men's Rugby World Cup. Huw Richards is an Associate Lecturer at the London College of Communication. As well as being a respected historian of sport he is a freelance writer and journalist who has worked for - among others - the BBC, the Financial Times, and the International Herald Tribune. He's written a number of authoritative works on the history of rugby including A Game for Hooligans: The History of Rugby, Dragons and All Blacks and The Red and the White, an account of the rivalry between Wales and England through over a century of rugby.

In this episode, Johanna and Nathan speak with Dr. Samantha White about her research on the discourses about African-American girls sport and physical education. Samantha White highlights the contradictions between the trivialization of youth sport and child athletes by the contemporary media and even academia one the one hand, with the history of the immense racialized attention and harmful discipline exerted on the bodies of African-American girl athletes in the 1920s-1930s on the other. Despite these practices, Black girl athletes found community through their physical activity and sporting practices. She then discusses her forthcoming article in the Journal of Sport History, “Ebony Jr.! Meritocracy and Sports in African-American Children's Media” about how the magazine in the 1970s reinforced sport as a site of meritocracy and racial uplift rather explain to child readers the racist structures and barriers that Black children readers would face in their lives. She moreover explains some groundbreaking feminist sports writing from her piece, “Negotiating Female Athletic Identity in Educational Spaces Through the Works of R.R. Knudson,” in Aethlon journal. We conclude the episode with a discussion with her about how academics can best support Black athletic laborers in this moment of societal upheaval and protests amidst white supremacist pressures to return to the field. Dr. White will begin the prestigious PRODiG postdoc at SUNY-Plattsburgh in fall 2020. Samantha can be found on Twitter @dearsamwhite, and also through her Women Also Know History page here. __________________________________________________________________________   As always, please like, share, and rate us on your favorite podcast app, and give follow us on Twitter or Instagram. @Derekcrim @JohannaMellis @Nkalamb @EndofSportPod www.TheEndofSport.com   **For a transcription of this episode please click here. Huge thanks to @Punkadmic for making this happen!**  

The Professor and Barney's debut episode is spent talking about other pure gold debuts (in sport!).The podcast team have grouped this collection in with one of these categories: Favourite debut stories, bad debuts that led to amazing careers, great debuts WITH great careers, and just plain bad and ugly debuts.Kiwi cricketer Glenn Phillips' effort in the New Year's Test at the SCG was the catalyst for this week's category.Other names on this list include Peter Taylor (8:00), Reginald Erskine 'Tip' Foster (11"), Eddy Merckx (15"), Edwin Flack (19"), Shane Warne (21"), Sir Donald Bradman (23"), Kingston Town (25"), Jonathan Brown (29"), John Coleman (32"), Wilt Chamberlain (33"), Andrew Johns (38"), Jarryd Hayne (40"), Eric the Eel (41"), Chris Martin (44"), Ali Dia (46") and Greg Smith (48").Please subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, so you know exactly when this weekly show drops a brand new episode!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.