Tag: Jean Williams

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: #hoops #basketballhistory @Hoops_Heritage: examining possibilities for basketball heritage within the context of higher education, critical museology and digital redirections by Geoffery Z. Kohe, Jamie Smith & John Hughson (open access).

The University of Chichester's Institute of Humanities, in partnership with the Institute of Sport, Nursing and Allied Health, are hosting a Business and Community in Sports History conference. Our aim for this conference is to highlight how intrinsic the themes of business and community are to sport throughout its history, in both its professional and amateur forms. We understand the concepts of business and community in relation to sports and its history is vast.

Exploring the key themes of gender and nationalism, and presenting a wealth of new empirical, archival evidence, Jean Williams’ Britain’s Olympic Women: A History (Routledge) explores the sporting culture produced by British women who aspired to become Olympians. Our reviewer is Norwegian sport studies scholar, and former track and field sprinter, Gerd von der Lippe, who warmly recommends the book to anyone interested in sport history, Olympic history, women’s history, British history or gender studies.

One of the world’s greatest sports, football, and one of the leading nations in that sport when it’s played by women, Germany, are in focus in Henk Erik Meier’s new book The Development of Women’s Soccer: Legacies, Participation, and Popularity in Germany (Routledge). Our reviewer is Jean Williams, who knows a bit about women’s football, and she finds Meier’s study a book to dip into, on repeated readings.

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.

For years, sport historian Gary James has gathered oral testimony from peaople involved in the making of a women’s team within the Manchester City FC. The result is Manchester City Women: An Oral History (James Ward Publ.), a lavishly illustrated volume that we asked renowned football historian Jean Williams to read and review. Impressed by the oral histories and the illustrations, Professor Williams still would have preferred more penetrating critical analyses.

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.

Sport in History is a history journal that publishes original, archivally-based research on the history of sport, leisure and recreation. The journal 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 dealing with issues of sports-related heritage and memory in society.

Sport in History is a history journal that publishes original, archivally-based research on the history of sport, leisure and recreation. The journal encourages the study of sport to illuminate broader historical issues and debates. Includes an extensive reviews section.

Originally published in 2014 and edited by Jennifer Hargreaves and Eric Anderson, the Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality comprises 53 chapters penned by 68 internationally renowned sport scholars. According to our reviewer Benjamin Moreland, this perennial handbook is a vital contribution to the academic conversations surrounding gender and sexuality and a foundational read for scholars and students alike.