Tag: Dilwyn Porter

John Williams’s latest contribution to the history of football, Football in Wind and Rain: The Making of the British Game (Pitch Publishing), provides educational and entertaining bite-size accounts of the history of British football and its people. Our reviewer, history professor Dilwyn Porter has read the 80 short chapters by this engaging storyteller, each vignette crafted to illuminate an aspect of the game’s history in Britain from the nineteenth century through to the present day, and Williams maintains an impressive momentum throughout.

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).

Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Female empowerment through sport: an exploratory narrative review by Aspen E. Streetman & Katie M. Heinrich.

Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Nobody needs a label’: responses on Facebook to a Team GB equity, diversity and inclusion initiative by Tracey J. Devonport, Kath Leflay, Kay Biscomb, Helen Richardson-Walsh, Kate Richardson-Walsh & Michael Thelwall.

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: Sports Illustrated tackles drugs in sports: examining the influence of a seminal magazine series by Bryan E. Denham.

2021 saw the centenary of the formation of the League of Ireland, the Republic of Ireland’s primary professional association football league. The League of Ireland: An Historical and Contemporary Assessment, edited by Conor Curran (Routledge), draws on the work of a number of leading historians of Irish soccer. Originally published as a 2021 Special Issue of Soccer & Society, our reviewer Dilwyn Porter sees much to commend in the collection but finds the links to the league in the various contributions less evident than expected.

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: Alternative sites of sports history by Gary James.

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: ‘Frae Land o’ Lakes to land o’ Cakes’: curling, Scotland, Sweden, and historical undercurrents by Matthew L. McDowell.

In Youth Sport, Migration and Culture: Two football teams and the changing face of Ireland (Routledge), Max Mauro looks closely at young people’s leisure practices in multi-ethnic contexts, and at issues of inclusion in relation to public discourses around ‘national identity’ and immigration. We asked Dilwyn Porter to read Mauro’s book, and he has written a knowledgeable and appreciative review that shows Mauro’s efforts to be insightful and recommendable.

Gaelic games, including Gaelic football, hurling, Gaelic handball and rounders, are the most popular sports played in Ireland, and form an important part of Irish cultural identity. In his book Gaelic Games on Film: From silent films to Hollywood hurling, horror and the emergence of Irish cinema (Cork University Press), Seán Crosson traces the Gaelic games through a hundred years of filmic representation, a journey that our reviewer Dilwyn Porter found most enjoyable.