Associate Professor of Sport History & Sport Management
📚 Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games; Soccer Diplomacy; Diplomatic Games; Berlin Sports
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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!
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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.
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…