BSSH Conference provisional programme

0930-1030

Aberdare (Jennifer Hargreaves)

1030-1200

Re-Reading Sources in Sports History

Fandom and Heroes

Daniel Nathan

Reconsidering Chariots of Fire (1981)

Chris Stride, John Wilson, and Ffion Thomas

From Pitch to Plinth: The UK's Football Statues

Andy Harvey

More of the ‘Christian’ and less of the ‘muscular’: a re-evaluation of sport in Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857)

Stacey Pope

Invisible But Not Lost: Female Experiences of Football in Sixties Britain

Mike McGuinness

Sport and Lady Florence Bell’s 1907 study of Middlesbrough At the Works

Liam O’Callaghan and Joel Rookwood

The Construction of Sporting Heroes in Cork and Liverpool: a comparative perspective

1200-1300

Lunch

1300-1400

Reconceptualising Amateurism

Sport and the Military

Dilwyn Porter

Corinth Revisited: the Corinthians, football history and football historiography

Arnaud Waquet

Football in war, a remedy against male vulnerability of French soldiers

Catherine Budd

“A potent power for evil”: The failure of professional football in Middlesbrough, 1888-1894

John Bromhead

Sailors at Play

1400-1500

Race and Empires

‘OTHERS’

Geoff Levett

Nègres contre Blancs: Race in rugby 1905-7

Chris Bolsmann

The Corinthians in South Africa: amateur gentlemen, ‘missionary work’, and football safaris

1500-1530

Break

1530-1700

Representations of Sport in the Press

British Olympic Histories

Keiko Ikeda

Sports Writing in Britain, the Early Radicals and the New Left

Martin Polley

‘Olimpick, Olympian and Olympic: alternative British histories’

Christoph Wagner

The Anglo-German football rivalry in the Sporting Press

Luke J Harris

The Formation of the Amateur Field Events Association, 1910: a change in British sporting identity

Alexander Jackson

‘Miner’s Play Regardless of the expense to the community’: Presentations and representations of miners at leisure in London and Sheffield newspapers during the 1912 National Coal Strike

Matthew P. Llewellyn

A Britannic Alliance: Nationalism, Imperialism and the Quest for a British Empire Olympic Team

1700-1800

Book Launch (Martin Polley)

0930-1030

Birley (Tony Collins)

1030-1200

Climbing Histories and Geographies

Governance and Organisation

Ben Anderson

Mountaineering in an age of nervousness: willpower and modernity in England and Germany, c. 1900-1914

Matthew L. McDowell

Islands unto themselves?  An examination of 'football' on Bute, Arran and Great Cumbrae, c. 1840-1900 

Jonathan Westaway

‘Being elsewhere’: British Alpine mountaineering, elite tourism and the cultural meaning of mountains, c.1800-1914

Conor Curran

‘Do away with your camáns and replace them with hurleys. Stick to your places on the field, and pass the ball more instead of driving her by random, and when this is done, you may defy the North, as far as hurling goes’: The Gaelic Athletic Association in Donegal in the nineteenth century

Paul Gilchrist

‘Beyond the brink’: Beachy Head as a climbing landscape

Graeme Moir

The Codification and Modernisation of Bowls: The Role of the English Bowling Association, 1903-60

1200-1300

Lunch

1300-1400

Sport in Concentration Camps and POW Camps

Mega-Events and Nation Building

Wojciech Lipoński

On The Necessity to Initiate Research on Sport In WWII Concentration Camps And POW Camps  

Stefan Hübner

The Early Asian Games and Predecessors (1913-1978): Sport, Nationalism and pan-Asianism

Joanna Witkowska

British Sport in POW Camps During World War II

Danny Wittels

Football: The Great Social Activist: How South Africa Stands to Benefit from Hosting the 2010 World Cup

1400-1500

Sport and Politics in the Soviet Union

OTHER

Susan Grant

Fun and Games: Creating the Ideal Soviet Citizen in the New Reality of the 1930s

Christopher Deal

Playing Politics with Sport: Soviet Reaction to the 1980 Olympic Boycott Campaign

1500-1530

Break

1530-1700

AGM