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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. 

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. 

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

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.

This two-day online event (Tuesday 6 - Wednesday 7 July) will feature discussion of a broad mix of physical, digitised and born digital resources relating to the Olympics and Paralympics.

We are delighted to announce Lili Donlon-Mansbridge of Cambridge University as this year's winner.