This episode Katie talks to Dr Sarah Hardstaff about children's books and football fiction. Sarah was awarded her PhD in 2020 by the University of Cambridge. Her thesis, 'Hidden Economies in the Novels of Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt' compared the authors’ representation of character agency in the context of economic activity. Sarah is currently working in publishing and in her spare time is working on identity, representation, and coming-of-age in football fiction for children.

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Article Reference:Riseman, Noah. "A history of transgender women in Australian Sports, 1976–2017." Sport in History (2021): 1-28.Caroline LaytCaroline’s a Trans Woman who advocates for Transgender people in sports and wider society, as she was bullied and had her own rights questioned when she played women’s [club and representative] rugby union and rugby league in the early 2000s. Despite prejudices she experienced when she was outed in 2005, she had positive people support her and she still managed to eke out a good career and represent NSW in Women’s State of Origin in 2007-08 and win four Rugby Australia National Championships as a member of Sydney First XV 2004-05 and 2007-08.In 2004 she was nominated as one of six finalists for the prestigious Sydney Morning Herald Women’s Rugby Player of the Year Awards prior to her being outed as Transgender to all and sundry by her representative coach the following year. Caroline’s a former Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor and she’s now a Freelance Journalist who recently produced an award winning documentary. Her other sport is track and field and she's won 4 silver and 2 bronze medals [sprint relays and throws] at World Masters Athletics Championships and World Masters Games she’s competed in overseas and in Australia. https://universalcinema.ca/review-is-this-queensland-in-the-20s/https://universalcinema.ca/is-this-queensland-in-the-20s-caroline-layt/https://thewomensgame.com/author/caroline-layt-1203054https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/national-news/aged-care-equality/168555https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/playing-experience-a-missing-piece-in-transgender-players-debate-20200819-p55nac.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMxlUqWW6SE&t=10shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rSIP2haDjk&t=1sNoah RisemanNoah Riseman is a professor of history at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, where he specialises in Australian histories of gender, sexuality and race. He has recently completed a project on the history of LGBTIQ+ people in the Australian Defence Force and has also done research on the history of Indigenous Australians in the armed forces. This podcast and the Sport in History article derive from his current project researching the history of transgender people in Australia. Listeners interested in that broader topic may wish to read this report Noah recently authored on Victoria's transgender history: Victoria's Transgender History Report | TGV.Some of the publications Noah mentioned in the podcast which may be of interest are:Noah Riseman. "Representing Transgender in the 1970s Australian Media." Gender and History 33, no. 1 (2021): 227-248.Noah Riseman. "Transgender Inclusion and Australia's Failed Sexuality Discrimination Bill." Australian Journal of Politics and History 62, no. 2 (June 2019): 259-277. Benjamin Law. Moral Panic 101: Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal. Quarterly Essay 67. Carlton, VIC: Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd, 2017.

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This episode Geoff talks to the distinguished historian Ramachandra Guha, the recipient of the 2021 British Society of Sports History and Cricket Society Howard Milton Award for Cricket Scholarship.Ram talks enthusiastically about his lifetime love of cricket and his career as a historian of the game, as well as being the biographer of Gandhi and working on the history of the environment.

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The Day 2 Keynote of Documenting the Olympics and Paralympics with Prof Martin Polley of De Montfort University talking us through a career of archival research in a varied and entertaining account. Professor Martin Polley (De Montfort University) From Wandsworth to Woodhorn via Wenlock, and points in between: an Olympic and Paralympic research journey, 1987-2021 Chair: Dr Raf Nicholson (Bournemouth University)

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Documenting the Olympics and Paralympics Day 2The first session of day 2 has three archivists from the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector talking about their collections and the broad range of objects and papers that are available for researchers of sport history.GLAM Sector Panel – chaired by Ian Cooke (British Library)Katharine Short (De Montfort University Special Collections)Dr Elaine Penn (University of Westminster Archives)Vicky Hope-Walker (Paralympic Heritage)

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The second session from the 2021 online conference Documenting the Olympics and Paralympics, which took place on 6th and 7th July 2021 and was organised by the British Library in conjunction with the British Society of Sports History (BSSH), International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC) at De Montfort University, and the School of Advanced Study/CLEOPATRA project.In this panel the speakers talk about their research on the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics and how archival material is collected, stored and utilised by the public and researchers.GLAM Sector Panel 1Chair: Dr Raf Nicholson (Bournemouth University) Dr Andrew Rackley (British Library)Caio Mello (British Library & School of Advanced Study/CLEOPATRA)

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The first session from the 2021 online conference Documenting the Olympics and Paralympics, which took place on 6th and 7th July 2021 and was organised by the British Library in conjunction with the British Society of Sports History (BSSH), International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC) at De Montfort University, and the School of Advanced Study/CLEOPATRA project.In this panel the event is introduced by Ian Cooke of the British Library before we have three speakers talking about their experience of archival research in Paralympic and Olympic events.The panel discuss a broad mix of physical, digitised and born-digital resources relating to the Olympics and Paralympics, as well as how these collections have been used by researchers. Research Panel - chaired by Dr Heather Dichter (De Montfort University) Luke Harris (University of Birmingham)Ian Brittain (Coventry University) Niki Koutrou (Bournemouth University) & Geoff Kohe (University of Kent)

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Alan McDougall is Professor of History at the University of Guelph. He has previously published on global football history as well as football in East Germany. He is currently working on a history of Liverpool Football Club. His conversation with Conor in this episode focused on his latest Sport in History article on Bill Shankly's Retirement.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17460263.2021.1931420

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This episode Sam Brady of Glasgow University gives a paper for the BSSH Sport & Leisure History seminar on sporting wheelchairs and adaptive technology in the Paralympics. Building on his own bank of oral history interviews with practitioners he explains the way in which wheelchair users increasingly became involved in the design of their equipment and how technological change affects the way in which Paralympic sports adapt over time.You can find out more about Sam's research via his blog posts at www.paralympicheritage.org.uk or by following him on Twitter @SamB24

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Dr Alexander Jackson is a curator at the National Football Museum, Manchester, England. He has written for The Blizzard, Soccer History and Playing Pasts and has a particular interest in early to mid-twentieth century football history. He has written, Football’s Great War: Association Football on the English Home Front, 1914-1918, due for publication in Spring 2022.

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