Wednesday 25 August
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Wednesday 25 August |
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15.00-17.00 |
Registration – Main Foyer |
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17.00-18.30 |
Venue – G5 Screening of Iron Women documentary of the history of women’s golf in Scotland, followed by Q&A with director Margot McCuiag. |
Thursday 26 August
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Thursday 26 August |
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Registration – Main Foyer |
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9.15-9.30 |
Opening Remarks Venue – Drawing Room |
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9.30-10.30 |
Parallel sessions |
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Session 1 WOMEN AND SPORT IN LATIN AMERICA Venue – Drawing Room Chair: Jo Halpin |
Session 2 SPORT AND ACTIVISM Venue – Billiards Room Chair: Dil Porter |
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Stuart Gibbs The Corinthians in South America |
Leslie Crang Doddie Weir and healthism : The activism of Sport foundations |
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Mark Orton Hockey’s Game Changers: How Las Leonas shifted the paradigm of female sport in early twenty-first century Argentina |
Malcolm Maclean “Haka and Hui: coloniality, analytical blindness and Rugby Union in Aotearoa/New Zealand” |
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10.30-11.00 |
Tea and coffee |
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11.00-12.00 |
Parallel sessions |
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Session 3 READING ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL Venue – Drawing Room Chair: Martyn Cooke |
Session 4 SPORTS EQUIPMENT AND EMANCIPATION Venue – Common Room Chair: Carol Osbourne |
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Dilwyn Porter The unfortunate novelist and match reporter: B.S. Johnson writing on football for the Observer in the 1960s |
Samuel Brady ‘A small leap for disabled man’: The athlete led evolution of the sports wheelchair and adaptive sports |
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Robin Ireland Football and its commercial entanglements: a historical reading with a public health lens |
Erica Munkwitz The Sidesaddle in Sport: Horsey Hindrance or Equestrian Empowerment? |
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12.00-13.00 |
Parallel sessions |
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Session 5 ORAL HISTORIES Venue – Drawing Room Chair: Lisa Taylor |
Session 6 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON NINETEENTH CENTURY FOOTBALL Venue – Common Room Chair: Robin Ireland |
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Lauren Beatty The importance of oral history in exploring women’s experiences of playing golf at club level in Scotland c.1945-1995 |
Martyn Dean Cooke Association Football Players in North Staffordshire, 1873-1878: A Prosopographical Approach. |
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Raf Nicholson “No merger, no money”: Oral Histories of Sporting Amalgamations, 1985-2000 |
Richard McBrearty Glasgow before the explosion: the role of migration and immigration in the development of football cultures in the city prior to 1873. |
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13.00-14.00 |
LUNCH |
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14.00-15.00 |
LORD ABERDARE PRIZE WINNER Venue - Drawing Room Dr Richard Mills (University of East Anglia) ‘Kicking Off in the "New World": Football, Crises, and Interwar Yugoslav-Latin American Relations’ |
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15.00-15.20 |
Tea and coffee |
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15.20-16.20 |
Parallel sessions |
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Session 7 REVISITING RUGBY MYTHS Venue – Drawing Room Chair: Malcolm MacLean |
Session 8 STRENGTH AND PHYSICAL CULTURE Venue – Common Room Chair: Conor Heffernan |
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Lydia Furse Founding Figure(s): Constructing and Deconstructing Sporting Myths around the 'First' Female Rugby Player(s) |
Iain Adams Pick up the rope - the origins of modern tug-of-war |
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Huw Richards Roy Francis, the 1946 Indomitables and ‘White Australia’ |
Alec Hurley Worth 1000 Words: Jack Nicolle’s Brief, but Influential Run as the Head Cartoonist for Health & Strength in the 1920s. |
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16.30-18.00 |
BSSH Annual General Meeting Venue – G5 |
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18.30 |
Wine reception: Waldegrave Ante Room |
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19.30 |
Conference dinner: Waldegrave Drawing Room |
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Friday 27 August
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Friday 27 August |
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9.30-11.00 |
Parallel sessions |
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Session 1 WOMEN’S FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL Venue – Drawing Room Chair: Lydia Furse |
Session 2 TECHNOLOGY AND REPRESENTATION Venue – Common Room Chair: Barbera Horley |
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Steve Bolton The WW1 Dagenham Invincibles: Sterling Ladies FC |
Mark Brewin “Thou Wilt not Find a Zealous Brother There:” Robert Dover’s Games as Communication Technology |
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Alexander Jackson ‘The Lady Footballer’: Women’s Football on the English Home Front during the First World War. |
Chris Henderson From Elite Enclave to Queer Counterpublic: Tracing the Lineages of Portland's Providence Park |
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Keith Myerscough More than a Game: Women’s Basketball, 1892 to 1896 |
Carol Osborne And Emily Ankers The shock of the archive: researching media representations of women ‘climbing’, c.1960s – 2020. |
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11.00-11.30 |
Tea and Coffee |
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11.30-12.30 |
Sir Derek Birley Memorial Lecture Venue – Drawing Room Dr Claire Warden (Loughborough University) Bumps, breakages, bandages, blood: performing risk on the stage and the pitch
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12.30-13.30 |
Parallel sessions |
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Session 3 BSSH AND THE FUTURE OF SPORTS HISTORY Venue – Drawing Room Chair: Katie Taylor |
Session 4 REPRESENTATIONS OF FOOTBALL’S HERITAGE Venue – Common Room Chair: Alexander Jackson |
Session 5 SPORT, ACTIVISM AND COLONIALISM Venue – Billiards Room Chair: Geoffrey Levett |
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Derek Peaple ‘Back to the Future’: the new Sporting Heritage Day Programme and its Relationship to BSSH |
Thomas Campbell Appropriating heritage: Rethinking neoliberal football stadia |
Manos S. Karousos Political and Radical Action in Sports: The case of the African American Athlete
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BSSH SCHOOLS AWARD WINNER - Rhianna Levy Is genetics the primary factor influencing the rise of black dominance in sport?
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Conor Heffernan Video Games, Legends and the Politics of Sport History |
Anas Ali Modern Sports and Imperial Solidarity: Sports, Mutiny and British Army in Colonial Malabar (1900-1930) |
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13.30-14.30 |
Lunch |
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14.30-16.00 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS |
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Session 6 GAME CHANGERS IN WOMEN’S SPORT Venue - Drawing Room Chair: Raf Nicholson |
Session 7 SPORT AND POLITICS BETWEEN THE WARS Venue – Common Room Chair: Mark Orton |
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Isaac Avery A Grass Ceiling: An examination of the history of women’s football in England and its relationship with the men’s game between 1881 and 2019 |
Jon Hughes ‘Subverting Fascism in 1930s Mountaineering Films: The Case of the German-British Co-Productions Der Berg Ruft (The Mountain Calls) and The Challenge (1938) |
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Jo Halpin A class apart: Kitty and Marjorie, hockey’s unheralded hotshots |
Geoffrey Levett ‘Should we resume relations with France?’: Rugby Diplomacy and the International Split of the 1930s |
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Barbara Horley ‘Speedway and the Fair Sex: Women as Riders, Managers and Spectators 1928 - 1965’ |
Richard Parry ‘English Cricket Tours, the MCC and the Politics of South Africa between the Wars’ |
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