Tag: Keith Rathbone
Local histories of women’s football offer new perspectives on the game
Histories of Women’s Football in Britain and Ireland, edited by Fiona Skillen, Helena Byrne and Gary James (Peter Lang Publishing) brings together a range of researchers to explore the growth and development of the women’s game in Britain and Ireland. Hans Bolling has read a book that sheds new light on a phenomenon for which interest has increased significantly during the 21st century and also highlights forgotten and/or ignored pioneers. Reading the book from cover to cover it may seem repetitive, but that also means that each chapter can be read on its own.
A highly readable history of sports in the City of Light
Maxence Leconte’s edited volume Sport in Paris: Retracing the Culture of Play and Games in the City of Light (1854–2024) (Peter Lang) revisits the development of recreational and professional sporting activities in the French capital, the first comprehensive piece of scholarship exclusively dedicated to the relationship between sport, history, and culture in the City of Light. Our reviewer Kristian Gerner quite likes the colloquial and rather redundant style of writing which provides readability without excluding distinct conclusions and good summaries.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 42, 2025, Issue 2 | Public Sport History and Community Sport
The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Making Public the History of Non-Racial Sport in South Africa by Noor Nieftagodien (open access).
Sport in History, Volume 43, 2023, Issue 1
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: ‘A small leap for disabled man’: the athlete-led evolution of the sports wheelchair and adaptive sports by Samuel Brady (open access).
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 37, 2020, Issue 5–6
The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘OUR SPORT’: THE FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL ATHLETICS by Jörg Krieger, Michele Krech & Lindsay Parks Pieper.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 36, 2019, Issue 2–3: New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe: Perspectives from the ‘Long Twentieth Century’
The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. As well as regular issues, the IJHS also offers regionally-focused issues on the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, and special issues each year on significant topics and themes.
