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: Football, Entertainment, and Business: Hans Gamper and KS Cracovia’s 1923 Tour of Spain by Pablo de la Fuente de Pablo & Cezary Taracha.

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: Sports Sprawl: Arlington Stadium and the Rise of Suburban Baseball Venues by Brian M. Ingrassia.

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: On the Hand-Strike Techniques of Ancient Hellenic Boxing and Pankration by Athanasios Bonas.

The Sport and Leisure History Seminar is organised by the British Society of Sports History in association with the journal Sport in History. We have a varied programme of speakers from postgraduate researchers to leading specialists in the field of sport and leisure history from the UK and around the world. All welcome – these seminars are online via Zoom, and are free to attend, but advance registration is required.

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: Lilian Harrison: the making of a pioneering swimmer, 1904–1923 by Matthew Brown & Pablo Ariel Scharagrodsky (open access).

Seminariet arrangeras i samarbete mellan Stockholms universitet (SU), Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan (GIH) samt Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH) i Stockholm. Seminarierna äger rum på Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan kl. 13:00-15:00. I höst medverkar Lars Paulsson, Daniel Alsarve, David Ludvigsson, Daniel Svensson och Anna Åberg.

The 2025 International Football History Conference will take place at the National Football Stadium at Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland and will be held over two days (Friday the 13th & Saturday the 14thof June 2025). This is a call for papers for those who wish to present at the conference. There will be an opportunity to present on any topic relating to the history of football of all codes. This includes, but is not limited to: Association Football, Rugby Union & Rugby League, Gaelic Football and Aussie Rules.

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 (in the case of Iceland and Malta) independent nations. These are places which sit at peripheries of national and international governance – and often supranational imagination. The neglect within media of th Games is reflected by academic literature: sport, politics, and the histories of sport in these places are rarely discussed.

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: Jorabin, a Sport or a Battle (from the Past to the Present) by Jalal Zhakati, Mohammad Rasoul Khodadadi, Kazimierz Waluch, Yaghob Badriazarin & Bartosz Prabucki.

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: Placard Carriers and Flag Bearers: Gender Representation in the Summer Olympics’ Parade of Nations (1908–2021) by Daniel Malanski (open access).