Tag: Dave Day

Sports Coaching Review is an international peer-reviewed medium for the publication of articles related to sports coaching. It aspires to be a major focal point for the publication of sports coaching research throughout the world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “Joseph Maigrot (1900-1983): a track and field coach who pioneered a French style of coaching” by Serge Vaucelle.

Sport in History encourages the study of sport to illuminate broader historical issues and debates. Includes an extensive reviews section, an annual compendium of sports-related accessions to British archives and a 'Sport in Public History' section. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Women coaches, professionalisation, and national governing body mergers in England, 1989–2000 by Rafaelle Nicholson (open access).

This special issue belongs to the section "Historiography", and papers for the issue can address any aspect of the writing and researching of sports history. If you think you have something novel to present and are interested in submitting a paper please contact Dr Dave Day, the editor for this special issue, at djday75@gmail.com to discuss your proposal. Agreed papers would be expected to be submitted for the first round of reviews by the end of December 2024.

Karen Eva Carr’s Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion Books) is a comprehensive history of swimming, where that history functions as a new lens through which to gain a clearer view of race, gender and power on a centuries-long scale. We’ve been fortunate to engage as reviewer leading aquatic sports historian Dave Day, Manchester Metropolitan University. Relating Carr’s book to several previous histories of swimming, he finds her effort both stimulating, accessible and readable.

Midland History is a refereed journal which prints articles on midlands subjects from professional and independent historians and research students in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘With No Cinder Path for Track Training, Our Position Is Hopeless’: The Development of Athletics Facilities in Birmingham, 1879-1929 by Luke J. Harris.

Described by the publisher as an array of research project abstracts, Exploring Research in Sports Coaching and Pedagogy: Context and Contingency (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, edited by Charles L. T. Corsby & Christian N. Edwards), comprises five parts and 19 chapters over a mere 187 pages. Still, our reviewer Marie Hedberg, well versed in this field, found a good overview of theories and of areas where they can be used, but she questions the generalisability of the results in the various chapters.

Dave Day’s edited collection from 2011, Sporting Lives (MMU Institute for Performance Research) originates from a Sporting Lives symposium hosted by MMU Cheshire, and must be considered a modern sport history classic. John S. Hellström is our reviewer, and he finds the sum of the parts to be most rewarding, even though some individual contributions are highly readable. Shame, though, that only one of eleven chapters is written about a women.

Robert Colls is Professor of History at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University. His 2020 book This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760–1960 (Oxford UP) has recieved a number of very positive reviews. Our own reviewer is Dave Day, Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University, and his review is equally enthusiastic, giving reason to believe that Colls’ book should be read carefully by all and any sport historians.

Two special issues of Sport in History has been converted into a single 14 chapters volume by the editors Dion Georgiou and Benjamin Litherland: Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries: Historical Perspectives (Routledge). Our reviewer is Anne Tjønndal, and she offers a comprehensive overview of the collection, which, though it might be better for some to read a few individual chapters, as a whole represents an accomplishment in sport history scholarship.

Five hundred pages, forty-five chapters, forty-nine authors – the Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics is a veritable treasure trove for academic tennis aficionados. Edited by renowned tennis historian Robert J. Lake, the volume elicited numerous unsolicited enthusiastic exclamations of appreciation and joy from our reviewer, renowned historian of Swedish tennis Johnny Wijk. Actually, his only complaint was the glaring paucity of Swedish tennis.