Tag: sport history

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).

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: Ad Santel is Coming to Town: The 1921 Yasukuni Shrine ‘MMA Fights’ Between Catch Wrestling and Kōdōkan Judo by Kōtarō Yabu & Andreas Niehaus.

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: Women coaches, professionalisation, and national governing body mergers in England, 1989–2000 by Rafaelle Nicholson (open access).

This special issue belongs to the section "Historiography", and papers for the issue can address any aspect of the writing and researching of sports history. If you think you have something novel to present and are interested in submitting a paper please contact Dr Dave Day, the editor for this special issue, at djday75@gmail.com to discuss your proposal. Agreed papers would be expected to be submitted for the first round of reviews by the end of December 2024.

Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Studia Territorialia is a leading Czech peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on area studies. It covers the history and the social, political, and economic affairs of the nations of North America, Europe, and post-Soviet Eurasia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The journal is published open access by the Institute of International Studies of Charles University, Prague. It is indexed in the SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, EBSCO, DOAJ, CEEOL databases, among others.