The Sport in History Best Article Award for 2020-21 was presented to Rafaelle Nicholson (Bournemouth University) and Matthew Taylor (DMU) for their article 'Women, sport and the people’s war in Britain, 1939–45'.

Registration is open for this year’s Women’s History Network, West Midlands Region Conference (in collaboration with the British Society of Sports History) at the University of Worcester is scheduled to take place on St. John’s Campus, Henwick Grove on Saturday, 6^th November 2021, 9am-5pm. 

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2021 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize: Robert Colls, for This Sporting Life Sport and Liberty in England 1760-1960.

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Richard Cox Postgraduate Prize and our Sporting Inequalities Prize.

Professor Ramachandra Guha is announced as the second winner of the Howard Milton Award for Cricket Scholarship. Professor Guha is one of the world’s leading historians of cricket, with his 2002 publication A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian history of a British Sport being a landmark work in cricket history. 

Details of the final conference programme, from Wednesday 25 - Friday 27 August 2021.

Members can now review Trustee Reports for 2020-21 ahead of the AGM on Thursday 26 August 2021.

The Sporting Inequalities Award rewards outstanding work considering sport and individuals/communities from underrepresented ethnicities; LGBTQ+ individuals/communities; women; and/or disability.

The shortlist for the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2021 is out!

This conference, convened by Dr. Solène Froidevaux and Dr. Claire Nicolas, aims at thinking about the political dimensions of the feminist theories and the ways we use them - or not - in Sport Studies. The call for papers is open.

The Sport & Physical Activity Research Centre (SPARC) at Bournemouth University are hosting this online event on Wednesday 7 July from midday - 1.30pm.