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BSSH Annual Conference 2011 Programme

BSSH CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 2011 (as at 13.06.11)

FRIDAY

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

 

Duncan Stone

 

Deconstructing the Gentleman Amateur

 

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

The Business of Football

Homes of Cricket

 

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

 

John Curran

 

Jimmy Hill, Three Points for a Win, and More Goals

Derek Barnard

 

The Repton School Cricket Team Of 1908

 

1500-1530

Break

 


 

1530-1700

Representations of Sport in the Press

British Olympic Histories

The Corinthians revisited

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

+ 1

 

1700-1800

Book Launch (Martin Polley)

 


SATURDAY

0930-1030

Birley (Tony Collins)

 

1030-1200

Climbing Histories and Geographies

Governance and Organisation

Race, Nation and Empires

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

The Olympic Image

 

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 

 

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

 

1500-1530

Break

 

1530-1700

AGM

 

 

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