Wednesday 25 August

 

Time

Wednesday 25 August

15.00-17.00

Registration – Main Foyer

17.00-18.30

Venue – G5

 Screening of Iron Women documentary of the history of women’s golf in Scotland, followed by Q&A with director Margot McCuiag.

 

Thursday 26 August

 

Time

Thursday 26 August

 

Registration – Main Foyer

9.15-9.30

Opening Remarks

Venue – Drawing Room

9.30-10.30

Parallel sessions

 

Session 1

WOMEN AND SPORT IN LATIN AMERICA

Venue – Drawing Room

Chair: Jo Halpin

Session 2

SPORT AND ACTIVISM

Venue – Billiards Room

Chair: Dil Porter

 

 

Stuart Gibbs

The Corinthians in South America

Leslie Crang

Doddie Weir and healthism : The activism of Sport foundations

 

 

Mark Orton

Hockey’s Game Changers: How Las Leonas shifted the paradigm of female sport in early twenty-first century Argentina

Malcolm Maclean

“Haka and Hui: coloniality, analytical blindness and Rugby Union in Aotearoa/New Zealand”

 

10.30-11.00

Tea and coffee

 

11.00-12.00

Parallel sessions

 

Session 3

READING ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL

Venue – Drawing Room

Chair: Martyn Cooke

Session 4

SPORTS EQUIPMENT AND EMANCIPATION

Venue – Common Room

Chair: Carol Osbourne

 

 

Dilwyn Porter

The unfortunate novelist and match reporter: B.S. Johnson writing on football for the Observer in the 1960s

Samuel Brady

‘A small leap for disabled man’: The athlete led evolution of the sports wheelchair and adaptive sports

 

 

Robin Ireland

Football and its commercial entanglements: a historical reading with a public health lens

Erica Munkwitz 

The Sidesaddle in Sport: Horsey Hindrance or Equestrian Empowerment? 

 

12.00-13.00

Parallel sessions

 

Session 5

ORAL HISTORIES

Venue – Drawing Room

Chair: Lisa Taylor

Session 6

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON NINETEENTH CENTURY FOOTBALL

Venue – Common Room

Chair: Robin Ireland

 

 

Lauren Beatty

The importance of oral history in exploring women’s experiences of playing golf at club level in Scotland c.1945-1995

Martyn Dean Cooke

Association Football Players in North Staffordshire, 1873-1878: A Prosopographical Approach.

 

 

Raf Nicholson

“No merger, no money”: Oral Histories of Sporting Amalgamations, 1985-2000

Richard McBrearty

Glasgow before the explosion: the role of migration and immigration in the development of football cultures in the city prior to 1873.

 

13.00-14.00

LUNCH

14.00-15.00

LORD ABERDARE PRIZE WINNER

Venue - Drawing Room

Dr Richard Mills (University of East Anglia)

‘Kicking Off in the "New World": Football, Crises, and Interwar Yugoslav-Latin American Relations’

 

15.00-15.20

Tea and coffee

15.20-16.20

Parallel sessions

 

Session 7

REVISITING RUGBY MYTHS

Venue – Drawing Room

Chair: Malcolm MacLean

Session 8

STRENGTH AND PHYSICAL CULTURE

Venue – Common Room

Chair: Conor Heffernan

 

 

Lydia Furse

Founding Figure(s): Constructing and Deconstructing Sporting Myths around the 'First' Female Rugby Player(s)

Iain Adams

Pick up the rope - the origins of modern tug-of-war

 

 

Huw Richards

Roy Francis, the 1946 Indomitables and ‘White Australia’

Alec Hurley

Worth 1000 Words: Jack Nicolle’s Brief, but Influential Run as the Head Cartoonist for Health & Strength in the 1920s.

 

16.30-18.00

BSSH Annual General Meeting

Venue – G5

18.30

Wine reception: Waldegrave Ante Room

19.30

Conference dinner: Waldegrave Drawing Room

 

Friday 27 August

 

Time

Friday 27 August

9.30-11.00

Parallel sessions

 

Session 1

WOMEN’S FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL

Venue – Drawing Room

Chair: Lydia Furse

Session 2

TECHNOLOGY AND REPRESENTATION

Venue – Common Room

Chair: Barbera Horley

 

 

Steve Bolton

The WW1 Dagenham Invincibles: Sterling Ladies FC

Mark Brewin

“Thou Wilt not Find a Zealous Brother There:” Robert Dover’s Games as Communication Technology

 

 

Alexander Jackson

‘The Lady Footballer’: Women’s Football on the English Home Front during the First World War.

Chris Henderson

  From Elite Enclave to Queer Counterpublic: Tracing the Lineages of Portland's Providence Park

 

 

Keith Myerscough

More than a Game: Women’s Basketball, 1892 to 1896

Carol Osborne And Emily Ankers

The shock of the archive: researching media representations of women ‘climbing’, c.1960s – 2020.

 

11.00-11.30

Tea and Coffee

11.30-12.30

Sir Derek Birley Memorial Lecture

Venue – Drawing Room

Dr Claire Warden (Loughborough University)

Bumps, breakages, bandages, blood: performing risk on the stage and the pitch

 

12.30-13.30

Parallel sessions

 

Session 3

BSSH AND THE FUTURE OF SPORTS HISTORY

Venue – Drawing Room

Chair: Katie Taylor

Session 4

REPRESENTATIONS OF FOOTBALL’S HERITAGE

Venue – Common Room

Chair: Alexander Jackson

Session 5

SPORT, ACTIVISM AND COLONIALISM

Venue – Billiards Room

Chair: Geoffrey Levett

 

Derek Peaple

‘Back to the Future’: the new Sporting Heritage Day Programme and its Relationship to BSSH

Thomas Campbell

Appropriating heritage: Rethinking neoliberal football stadia

Manos S. Karousos

Political and Radical Action in Sports: The case of the African American Athlete

 

 

BSSH SCHOOLS AWARD WINNER - Rhianna Levy

Is genetics the primary factor influencing the rise of black dominance in sport?

 

 

Conor Heffernan

Video Games, Legends and the Politics of Sport History

Anas Ali

Modern Sports and Imperial Solidarity: Sports, Mutiny and British Army in Colonial Malabar (1900-1930)

 

13.30-14.30

Lunch

14.30-16.00

PARALLEL SESSIONS

 

Session 6

GAME CHANGERS IN WOMEN’S SPORT

Venue - Drawing Room

Chair: Raf Nicholson

Session 7

SPORT AND POLITICS BETWEEN THE WARS

Venue – Common Room

Chair: Mark Orton

 

 

Isaac Avery

A Grass Ceiling: An examination of the history of women’s football in England and its relationship with the men’s game between 1881 and 2019

Jon Hughes

‘Subverting Fascism in 1930s Mountaineering Films: The Case of the German-British Co-Productions Der Berg Ruft (The Mountain Calls) and The Challenge (1938)

 

 

 

Jo Halpin

A class apart: Kitty and Marjorie, hockey’s unheralded hotshots

Geoffrey Levett

‘Should we resume relations with France?’: Rugby Diplomacy and the International Split of the 1930s

 

 

Barbara Horley

‘Speedway and the Fair Sex: Women as Riders, Managers and Spectators 1928 - 1965’

Richard Parry

‘English Cricket Tours, the MCC and the Politics of South Africa between the Wars’