Articles
Open Access
‘Still and dark assemblies’: the narrativised chess-player in urban & literary culture, 1834–1864
John Sharples
Pages: 1-29 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2024.2405135
An attentive ambivalence: France’s view of China’s table tennis supremacy (1950s–1980s)
Cyril Thomas & Kilian Mousset
Pages: 30-52 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2024.2405586
Open Access
From Popularity to Suppression: Cockfighting and English Society c.1730 to the 1835 Cruelty to Animals Act
Mike Huggins
Pages: 53-80 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2024.2414252
The expansion of British steeplechasing in the Grand Duchy of Posen
Mateusz Rozmiarek & Arkadiusz Włodarczyk
Pages: 81-112 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2024.2415968
Becoming the number one boss of sports shows. Promoter Jeff Dickson in interwar Europe
Sébastien Moreau & Sylvain Ville
Pages: 113-140 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2024.2433455
Open Access
The struggle to establish basketball in Scotland
Ross Walker
Pages: 141-168 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2024.2446768
Book Reviews
The kings of strength: a history of all strong men from ancient times to our own
by Edmond Desbonnet, translated by David Chapman, Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland Press, 2022, 470 pp., £49.95 (softcover), ISBN 978-1-4766-4505-6
Conor Heffernan
Pages: 169-171 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2023.2187193
Female football spectators in Britain 1863–1939
by Robert Lewis, Abingdon, Routledge, 2023, viii+135 pp., £130.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-0320-4884-0
Tony Collins
Pages: 171-173 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2024.2326772
