2020 Shortlist
- Collins, T. How Football Began A Global History of How the World’s Footballing Codes Were Born (Routledge)
- Day, D. and Roberts, M. Swimming Communities in Victorian England (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Hay, R. Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century: They Did Not Come from Nowhere (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
- James, G. The Emergence of Footballing Cultures: Manchester, 1840–1919 (Manchester University Press)
- Kidambi, P. Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire (Oxford University Press)
- Nicholson, R. Lords and Ladies: A History of Women’s Cricket in Britain (Peter Lang)
- Tozer, M. Edward Thring’s Theory, Practice and Legacy: Physical Education in Britain since 1800 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)