Institute of Historical Research

Khaki Fever at the Finsbury Park Rink Cinema: Gender, Sexuality and Modernity, 1913-19

Alex Rock

(De Montfort University)

Sport and Leisure History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research

Khaki Fever at the Finsbury Park Rink Cinema: Gender, Sexuality and Modernity, 1913-19

Alex Rock

(De Montfort University)

Sport and Leisure History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research

Women's Cricket Magazine, 1930-1967: Making Cricket Possible, Enjoyable and Fruitful for All Women and Girls

Rafaelle Nicholson

(Queen Mary, University of London)

Sport and Leisure History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research

'A Man Cannot See His Own Faults': British Professional Trainers and the 1912 Olympics

Dr David Day

(Manchester Metropolitan University)

Sport and Leisure History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research

The 'La Salada' Fair (Buenos Aires) as a Place of Recreation and Construction of Identities

Adrianna Massidda

(University of Cambridge)

'La Salada' is a large informal fair in the Southern suburbs of Buenos Ai...

Institute of Historical Research

Taking the Field: Telling the Stories of Grassroots Cricket

Dr Emma Peplow

(University of Glamorgan/Marylebone Cricket Club)

Most histories of cricket ignore the grassroots game in favour of the bigger teams. ...

Institute of Historical Research

Speed: Towards a Collective Biography of Brooklands Women, 1907-1939

Dr Jean Williams

(De Montfort University)

Very little has been written on the history of motor racing, which is quite an unexpected omission...

Institute of Historical Research

Recreational Music - Making and the Fashioning of Political or Diplomatic Relationships at the court of Elizabeth I

Dr Katherine Butler

(University of Oxford)

Sport and Leisure History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research

The Race for Supremacy: The Politics of 'White' Sport in South Africa 1880-1910

Dr Dean Allen

(Uni of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

When in 2010 South Africa became the first African nation to host the Fifa worl...

Institute of Historical Research

Je suis Quinziste et Socialiste: Rugby, Wine and Socialism in the Aude since 1976

Andrew Smith

(Queen Mary, University of London)

Sport can be a passionate thing! This is as true of Rugby as any other but per...