Every year we invite a distinguished scholar of Sport History to deliver the Derek Birley Keynote at our conference.
Aug 23, 2024
Michael Crawley, University of Durham. 'Myth, Reality and the Articulation of Sport and Society in Ethiopian Running'.
Aug 25, 2023
Carly Adams, University of Lethbridge. 'Unwrapping the Spaces, Practices, of Sport(ing) and Histor(y/ies)'
Aug 31, 2022
Ramachandra Guha: The Accidental Sports Historian
Aug 27, 2021
Dr Claire Warden of Loughborough University. 'Bumps, breakages, bandages, blood: performing risk on the pitch and stage'.