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At the end of last month, a BSSH-funded conference 'Sport, "islands", people and politics' was held in Kirkwall, Orkney, to tie in with the Island Games, which will open on 12 July 2025. Conference organiser Matt McDowell reports back on the one day event.

Arran Hicks, a doctoral student at the University of East Anglia researching football during the Cold War, received a BSSH postgraduate research grant to help with costs of an archives visit to Switzerland and has sent us the following report.

The nomination process for this year's Lord Aberdare Literary Prize has been extended until the end of next month.

A new exhibition featuring the Great War Munitionettes side Sterling Ladies has just opened at the Valence House Museum in Dagenham, London.

This December sees not one but two publications from BSSH members, Matthew Taylor and Andy Carter.

The School of Sport and Exercise Science at Ulster University is now offering a new PhD study opportunity. 

The first women's association football side was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame at the prestigious SWF annual awards ceremony. 

The University of Ulster's Belfast Campus has been announced as the venue for the 2025 BSSH Annual Conference and will take place between 20th and 22nd August 2025.   

There was a sell-out crowd at the Scottish Football Hall of Fame on 30 October 2024 for the launch event of 'A Most Unsuitable Game' a collection of prose and poetry celebrating the history of Scottish women's football.

Call for papers "Cricket in 2035: What Could it Look Like?" Cricket Research Network Annual Conference.

Congratulations to Lisa Jenkel and Margaret Roberts joint winners of the 2024 Sport in History Sporting Inequalities Prize.

This was a wonderful year for sport history and the Lord Aberdare Prize committee would like to congratulate each author for the quality and depth of their prose. But there can only be one winner...

An exhibition celebrating 120 years of Carlisle Utd FC has just opened at the city's Tullie House Museum.

The Cricket Research Network has released a call for papers at its 2024 conference, to be held in Cardiff.

The British Society of Sport History and British Sociological Association are excited to announce a one-day workshop for PhD/ECR and Independent Members spanning sport history and sociology. Recognising the challenges facing scholars of the field, this interdisciplinary workshop offers an opportunity for members share their work with others, listen to key experts on the nuances of working in both fields and an interdisciplinary panel concerning jobs in sport.

Congratulations to Rafaelle Nicholson for being selected as the Sport in History Sporting Inequalities Prize winner for 2023.

We are delighted to announce distinguished historian of cricket, Clem Seecharan, as the winner of the 2023 Howard Milton Award for Cricket Scholarship.

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2023 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize is Dr Alexander Jackson for Football's Great War: Associated Football on the English Home Front, 1914 - 1918 (Pen & Sword Books).

We are delighted to announce Selene Salavessa of Northumbria University as this year's winner.

Our research grants support scholars with original research by sponsoring academic trips. Dr. Basudhita Basu recounts her experiences and findings of a month-long academic tour funded by the BSSH.