Special issue | Tracing Football’s Past: Studies in the Early Development of the Modern Game
Introduction: towards a deeper understanding of the development of early football
Graham Curry
Pages: 1-4 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2016.1276239
Myths, truths and pioneers: the early development of association football in The Potteries
Martyn Dean Cooke & Gary James
Pages: 5-23 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2016.1276247
Stunted growth: the early development of football in Derby and South Derbyshire
Graham Curry
Pages: 24-34 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2016.1276241
Football’s Secret History – chapters 2 and 3
John Goulstone
Pages: 35-49 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2016.1276243
The myth of the public schools as the inventors of modern soccer: the ultimate revisionism
Adrian Harvey
Pages: 50-58 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2016.1276237
The codes diverge: the establishment of Victorian football, rugby and soccer in Australia, 1860–1900
Roy Hay
Pages: 59-74 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2016.1276250
John Hope, the Foot-Ball Club of 1824 and its sporting legacy
John Hutchinson & Andy Mitchell
Pages: 75-88 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2016.1276244
The origins debate – how soccer triumphed over other forms of team sports in Manchester
Gary James
Pages: 89-106 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2016.1276238
The early development of a football hotbed: the onset of the game in Tyne and Wear, 1877–1882
Paul Joannou & Alan Candlish
Pages: 107-122 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2016.1276248
Three men and two villages: the influence of footballers from rural South Yorkshire on the early development of the game in Sheffield
Kevin Neill, Graham Curry & Eric Dunning
Pages: 123-135 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2016.1276245
Reclassifying history: a steady regression to nowhere – fast
Peter Swain
Pages: 136-153 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2016.1276249
Waiting for Association football: incipient soccer in Australia, 1850–1880
Ian Syson
Pages: 154-167 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2016.1276242
