Find out who won the Richard Cox and Sporting Inequities prizes this year!

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2022 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize is Dr Heather Dichter for Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport’s Cold War Battle with NATO (University of Massachusetts Press).

Ramachandra Guha: The Accidental Sports Historian

The 2024 Conference will be held at the University of Chichester!

Information about the 2022 Conference.

The full text of the keynote speech given by Emeritus Professor Richard Holt at the 2022 BSSH Conference in Leicester.

Press release announcing the winner of the 2022 Howard Milton Award for Cricket Scholarship.

Would you like to join the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation Heritage Advisory Group?

The Call for Papers for Researching and Writing Irish Sporting Lives: A Workshop & Symposium hosted by the University of Ulster (11-12 November 2022) is now live - find out more here.

Dr Verity Postlethwaite reflects on the research visit to the University of Stirling that we helped to fund.

CESH has released a call for papers at its 2022 conference, to be held in Bucharest.

We are delighted to announce Su-Sam Tham of the University of York as this year's winner.

Check out the programme here.

Dr Katie Taylor reflects on the research visit to Washington DC that we helped to fund.

Our research grants support scholars with original research. Here, Alec Hurley (University of Texas at Austin) reflects on the work and research experience we helped to facilitate.

We are delighted to announce the new Sport and Leisure History Seminar programme for the 2021 autumn term. Four seminars will take place between October and December.

The British Society of Sports History is committed to supporting the work of postgraduate, early career and independent researchers. This prize aims to provide an outlet for the exciting work that BSSH members are carrying out. The prize was first awarded in 2022 and in 2023/24, it was extended to include independent researchers.