Prizes
British Society Of Sports History ‘A’ Level Essay Competition
Open to all AS/A2 students
The British Society of Sports History wishes to announce the inaugural Sports History Essay Competition. Open to all 6th Form Students studying AS/A2 level subjects.
Students are invited to submit (via their teachers) an essay of no less than 1500 and no more than 2000 words based on any sports history-related topic from any of the current AS/A2 Physical Education and Sports Studies specifications.
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Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History
Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History
Winner announced
The winner of the Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History for 2010 is The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany by Kay Schiller and Christopher Young. The committee was unanimous in concluding that it was the stand-out book this year. It is comprehensive, scholarly, meticulously researched and makes a serious contribution to the history of the Olympic movement. The coverage of Olympic politics and of sport and its part in Cold War cultural relations is very thorough. At the same time it makes a powerful contribution to our understanding of post-war Germany. It will stand as the definitive academic work on the 1972 Games for many years.
Aberdare Prize Committee: Jason Wood (Chair), Dil Porter and Joyce Kay
The short list for the Aberdare Prize for books published in 2010 was as follows (in alphabetical order):
Duncan Hamilton, A Last English Summer (Quercus)
Tony Mason and Eliza Riedi, Sport and the Military: The British Armed Forces 1880-1960 (Cambridge University Press)
Kevin McCarthy, Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey, 1896-1924 (Cork University Press)
Kay Schiller and Christopher Young, The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany (University of California Press)
Caroline Symons, The Gay Games: A History (Routledge)
Jonathan Wilson, The Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches (Orion)
Aberdare Literary Prize 2011
Colleagues,
the announcement below contains details of the shortlist for the Aberdare Literary Prize, which will be presented at the Society's Annual Conference in London in September.
Thanks to Jason Wood for the details and thanks also to Jason, who steps down this summer after serving four years on the selection panel - the last two as its Chair.
Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History
The short list for the Aberdare Prize for books published in 2010 is as follows (in alphabetical order):
Duncan Hamilton, A Last English Summer (Quercus)
Tony Mason and Eliza Riedi, Sport and the Military: The British Armed Forces 1880-1960 (Cambridge University Press)
Kevin McCarthy, Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey, 1896-1924 (Cork University Press)
Kay Schiller and Christopher Young, The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany (University of California Press)
Caroline Symons, The Gay Games: A History (Routledge)
Jonathan Wilson, The Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches (Orion)
The winner will be announced at the BSSH conference on 2-3 September 2011.
Aberdare Prize Committee: Jason Wood (Chair), Dil Porter and Joyce Kay
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British Society Of Sports History ‘A’ Level Essay Competition
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