Articles
Open Access
‘Playing fields not battlefields’: pacifism, non-violence and sport in inter-war Britain
Emily Calcraft
Pages: 175-191 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2025.2452621
‘Strictly a power play’: Jack Langer and Yale University versus the National Collegiate Athletic Association
Dan Covell
Pages: 192-220 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2024.2449380
Early Oxford University chess history (1810–1872)
Vlastimil Fiala
Pages: 221-249 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2024.2425077
Open Access
James Naismith: the creation of basketball and the Scottish connection
Ross Walker
Pages: 250-280 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2025.2452658
Open Access
Female athletes as pioneers in the development of sport in Poland in the interwar period
Magdalena Zmuda Palka & Matylda Siwek
Pages: 281-303 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2025.2460120

Semantic changes in the meaning of ‘Olympic minimum’
Udi Carmi & Shosh Shaked
Pages: 304-331 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2025.2460761
Book Reviews
Physical education in Irish schools, 1900–2000: a history
by Conor Curran, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2022, 512 pp., £40 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-7899-7842-1
Conor Heffernan
Pages: 332-334 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2023.2233284
Swimming pretty: the untold story of women in water
by Vicki Valosik, New York, Liveright Publishing, 2024, 432pp. 60 black-and-white illustrations, £22 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-324-09304-6
Dave Day
Pages: 334-336 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2025.2518348

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