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Associate Professor of Sport History & Sport Management 📚 Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games; Soccer Diplomacy; Diplomatic Games; Berlin Sports 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧, or traveling somewhere www.dmu.ac.uk/heatherdichter
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Such exciting work being shared during #SportAndFashion month! #skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory
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GDR team competing during the two man Bobsleigh competition at the Winter Olympics in Calgary, 1988. (via GDRvisuals on Twitter)

To this day the GDR and Soviet flags still fly at one of the Calgary Olympic venues
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Dr. Heather Dichter
Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9
Excited to see Kyle Romero’s piece for made by history in @inquirer.com opinion today. Editors did a great job putting archival photos in! 🎁 link share.inquirer.com/vZ81pi
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'World Shin-Kicking Championships: Broken legs and broken toes – ‘It’s not for the faint-hearted’. @icshc.bsky.social Emeritus Prof. Martin Polley @historymartin.bsky.social interviewed by @theathletic.com on the Cotswold Olimpicks - www.nytimes.com/athletic/732... #sportshistory
One week left to register at our conference #PHRC26 Photography's Tacit Knowledge! We have an amazing programme with speakers from all over the world and THREE (3!) keynotes! Check out the programme and register here: photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
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In 1930, the United States men’s soccer team, composed mostly of immigrants and working-class amateurs from Northeastern migrant communities, reached the semifinals of the World Cup in Uruguay.
Philly hosting the World Cup is just the latest chapter in soccer’s American immigrant story | Opinion
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Does anyone’s library subscribe to the British Newspaper Archive anymore & can pull a story from the Reading Evening Post from 1966 for me? #skystorians 🗃️
For over 400 years it is believed that people have gathered in a picturesque English town to watch an annual shin kicking competition
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Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…
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