Tag: sport history

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: Transforming Scottish Basketball: Exploring the Student Impact, 1890s–1930s by Ross Walker (open access).

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: Semantic changes in the meaning of ‘Olympic minimum’ by Udi Carmi & Shosh Shaked.

In July 2025, Orkney hosted the XX Island Games. The sporting competition is held every two years in a variety of polities on the Atlantic Rim; their first iteration was in 1985 on Isle of Man. The 40-year history of the Island Games and the International Island Games Association (IIGA) has featured a variety of non-sovereign polities, territories, dependencies, autonomous regions, council areas, and even formerly independent nations. The Island Games, and indeed sport in the Atlantic Rim’s peripheries, are crucial towards understanding a variety of historical and contemporary phenomena which have relevance far beyond the playing field.

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: From California to Brazil: The History of Skateboarding in Curitiba, Paraná (1975–1999) by Joana Caroline Corrêa da Silva, Maria Thereza Oliveira Souza & André Mendes Capraro.

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).

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: From Back Streets to Olympic Stage: The Development of Breaking and Skateboarding in South Korea by Eunsu Lee & Minhyeok Tak (open access)

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: Louis Faure-Dujarric, a French Sports Architect in the Interwar Period by Natalia Camps Y Wilant & Pierre-Olaf Schut.

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: Daciada and Winter Sports in Romania, 1976–1989 by Simona Petracovschi, Martin Domokos & Eugen Bota (open access).

Sport History Review encourages the submission of scholarly articles, methodological and research notes, and commentaries. SHR encourages graduate students and young professionals to submit their work for publication. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Arctic Winter Games: Aims, Reflections, and Issues of the Research About a Singular Sport Event by Julien Fuch (open access).

Sport History Review encourages the submission of scholarly articles, methodological and research notes, and commentaries. SHR encourages graduate students and young professionals to submit their work for publication. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Twice Invisible, Twice Clandestine. Football and Lesbianism in Spain During the Years of Democratic Transition (1970–1982) by Dolors Ribalta Alcalde, Xavier Pujadas.