BSSH Annual Conference 2011 Programme
BSSH CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 2011 (as at 13.06.11)
FRIDAY
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0930-1030 |
Aberdare (Jennifer Hargreaves) |
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1030-1200 |
Re-Reading Sources in Sports History |
Fandom and Heroes |
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Daniel Nathan
Reconsidering Chariots of Fire (1981) |
Chris Stride, John Wilson, and Ffion Thomas
From Pitch to Plinth: The UK's Football Statues |
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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 |
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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 |
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1200-1300 |
Lunch |
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1300-1400 |
Reconceptualising Amateurism |
Sport and the Military |
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Duncan Stone
Deconstructing the Gentleman Amateur
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Arnaud Waquet
Football in war, a remedy against male vulnerability of French soldiers |
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Catherine Budd
“A potent power for evil”: The failure of professional football in Middlesbrough, 1888-1894 |
John Bromhead Sailors at Play |
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1400-1500 |
The Business of Football |
Homes of Cricket |
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Steven Apostolov
Everywhere and Nowhere: the forgotten past and clouded future of American professional soccer from the perspective of Massachusetts |
Lynn Pearson
The Architecture of Cricket: Pavilions Home and Away |
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John Curran
Jimmy Hill, Three Points for a Win, and More Goals |
Derek Barnard
The Repton School Cricket Team Of 1908 |
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1500-1530 |
Break |
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1530-1700 |
Representations of Sport in the Press |
British Olympic Histories |
The Corinthians revisited |
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Keiko Ikeda
Sports Writing in Britain, the Early Radicals and the New Left |
Martin Polley
‘Olimpick, Olympian and Olympic: alternative British histories’ |
Dilwyn Porter
Corinth Revisited: the Corinthians, football history and football historiography |
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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 |
Chris Bolsmann
The Corinthians in South Africa: amateur gentlemen, ‘missionary work’, and football safaris
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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 |
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1700-1800 |
Book Launch (Martin Polley) |
SATURDAY
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0930-1030 |
Birley (Tony Collins) |
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1030-1200 |
Climbing Histories and Geographies |
Governance and Organisation |
Race, Nation and Empires |
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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 |
Maria Darlington and John Nauright
Beyond Cricket: Towards Postcolonial Histories of Sport in Barbados
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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 |
David Wiggins
Race and Sport History in the USA: Future Directions
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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 |
Geoff Levett
Nègres contre Blancs: Race in rugby 1905-7 |
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1200-1300 |
Lunch |
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1300-1400 |
Sport in Concentration Camps and POW Camps |
Mega-Events and Nation Building |
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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 |
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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 |
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1400-1500 |
Sport and Politics in the Soviet Union |
The Olympic Image |
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Susan Grant
Fun and Games: Creating the Ideal Soviet Citizen in the New Reality of the 1930s |
Mike O’Mahony
In the Shadow of Myron |
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Christopher Deal
Playing Politics with Sport: Soviet Reaction to the 1980 Olympic Boycott Campaign |
Stephen Baines
The Olympic Torch Relay: From Berlin 1936 to London 2012 |
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1500-1530 |
Break |
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1530-1700 |
AGM |
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