Tag: Scotland

The fourth annual International Football History Conference will take place at the Hibernian Football Club, Easter Road Stadium, 12 Albion Place, Edinburgh, EH7 5QG, Scotland, and will be held over two days (Friday 5 and Saturday 6 June 2020). This is a call for papers to be presented at the conference. There will be an opportunity to present on any topic relating to the history of football of any and all codes.

This one-day conference will examine the history/histories of tourism, sport, and leisure during the winter months in Scotland.

This one-day conference will examine the history/histories of tourism and leisure during the summer months in Scotland. Abstracts should be no longer than 200 words, and must be submitted by Friday, 30 January 2017. A £15 fee will be charged by the conference organisers for attendance.

The British Society of Sports History, Scottish Network, is pleased to invite you to ‘Histories of Cross-Border Sport in Scotland and England’, our annual one-day symposium, this year at the Robert Burns Centre in Dumfries. Suggested paper topics might include (but are not limited to): The South of Scotland, the North of England, and civic, ‘regional’, and ‘national’ identities Sport, gender, and...

To mark the ongoing exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Playing for Scotland: The Making of Modern Sport, we are teaming up to present a one-day conference on Scottish sport’s historic and contemporary relationship with the arts, broadly defined.

The Annual Women’s History Scotland Conference will take place on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th September 2014 at the University of Abertay Dundee. Professor Charlotte Macdonald has been confirmed as our speaker for the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture on the Friday evening: Panel sessions will be held throughout the day on Saturday 27th September and paper proposals are now welcomed on...

The British Society of Sports History (BSSH), Scottish Network, is pleased to invite you to ‘Histories of Scottish Sport, Leisure and Tourism’, a one-day symposium in at the Highland Archive Centre, Inverness, in partnership with the University of the Highlands and Islands. The series seeks to highlight new work in the field of the history of sport, leisure and tourism...

International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University The Scotland England Match - Football and National Identity in the UK Saturday 26 October 2013, Leicester This is a football conference primarily about the fans. The first official Scotland England international was held in 1872 at the West of Scotland Cricket Ground in Partick. About 4000 people paid a shilling each to see a...