Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2022.2131613
M. MacLean
ABSTRACT The Empire’s subaltern peoples and its justification in coloniality are strangely absent from British sport history, despite a key strand of the field being grounded in links between Empire, masculinity and sport: in this the subject reflects gaps and silences in British social history more generally. This paper that is both theoretical and historiographical explores this absence and considers ways that it might be addressed. It first sketches the coloniality of sport history as epistemology and ontology through an exploration of the field’s methodological national whiteness as redacting the agency and voice (past and present) of Indigenous and colonial subaltern peoples and implicating sport history in a continuing Imperial Archive. Although necessarily broad brush the paper concludes by examining aspects of the field that disrupt methodological nationalism and methodological whiteness to suggest ways of rethinking and recasting historians’ practice to suggest decolonial methods for British sport history that rupture in analyses of sport the constraints of the nation as anachronism and Whiteness as a fundamental characteristic of British history.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2022.2126516
Rafaelle Nicholson
As the Chair of the British Society of Sports History during its 40th anniversary year, I was delighted to be asked to write the Introduction to this special issue, celebrating four decades of our existence as the BSSH. I want to emphasise at the outset, though, that the hard work which has gone into conceiving, commissioning, collating and editing the articles which appear in the following pages is that of the special issue editors, Conor Heffernan and Katie Taylor. It was in the first year of my term as Chair, November 2019 back in the era before ‘social distancing’ became a regular part of all our vocabularies that I had the good fortune of being sat next to Professor Richard Holt at a dinner in Leicester. Towards the end of the evening, Dick leaned back in his chair, looked over at me, and remarked that he felt sure the 40th anniversary of the Society would soon be approaching, and what would we be doing to celebrate? Truth be told, I had given it very little thought; had it not been for that fortuitous conversation, this special issue (and the surrounding 40th anniversary activities) might well never have come to bear. Not for the first time, the field of British sports history finds itself in enormous debt to Professor Holt. When I went away to read up on the history of the BSSH, I found that in common with many sports there is some dispute as to the exact founding ‘date’ of the Society. J.A. Mangan has it as March 1983; but Carol Osborne and Dil Porter’s recent hunt in the BSSH archives has uncovered an ‘inaugural meeting’ of BSSH dated 21March 1982, as part of a conference at the University of Liverpool organised by Richard Cox. After discussion, we as a Board of Trustees were nonetheless content to settle on 2022 (40 years since the first BSSH conference took place) as the year in which to focus our anniversary celebrations.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2022.2134919
Carol A. Osborne, Dilwyn Porter
ABSTRACT We reflect here on the history of the British Society of Sports History (BSSH) from its inception in 1982 through to its fortieth anniversary in 2022. The origins of the Society are contextualised with reference to a burgeoning interest in the history of sport and physical education in the 1970s and early 1980s. The BSSH’s development is then considered with reference to its annual conferences, its membership, its publications and its recent initiatives seeking to promote sports history more widely. The contribution of women to the work of the Society is an underlying theme throughout, especially where it relates to gender inequity issues. This account draws extensively on the Society’s archive, as yet uncatalogued, most significantly papers deposited by Dr Richard William Cox, which will eventually be available for consultation at the Kimberlin Library, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2022.2117731
G. James
ABSTRACT This paper provides an overview of potential sites for sports historians to position their work. Opportunities to be employed focusing on sports history within a university setting are limited and it is challenging for sports historians to find opportunities for employment within traditional media organisations too. This paper tries to answer the simple question of ‘Where will sport historians go in the future?’ and considers opportunities to work with sporting organisations and others with the aim of presenting our work to audiences. In an uncertain financial climate, it can be difficult to find a role that supports the ambitions of sports historians. The article concludes that sports historians need to develop a multi-faceted approach to their careers, combining traditional academic opportunities with activities aimed at a general audience. Finding an appropriate niche is important.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-11DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2022.2118822
Udi Carmi, Anat Kidron
ABSTRACT The United States Committee Sports for Israel (hereinafter: USCSFI) was one of the organisations that helped launch Israeli sport through donations recruited from American Jews. The USCSFI sought to instil American sports culture in Israel as part of its desire to take part in shaping Israeli culture. Israeli sports organisations fought among themselves regarding ties with the USCSFI and access to its resources. The USCSFI attempted to manoeuvre between the warring organisations but failed. The assistance the USCSFI offered entailed political involvement due to the political structure of sport in Israel. The USCSFI’s relations with Israeli sport were not the one-sided relations of donor to recipient. Indeed, the USCSFI benefitted from its ties with Israeli sports organisation: In its struggle against competing Jewish organisations, these ties helped the USCSFI strengthen its position as the representative of Zionist sport in the US. In the 1980s, the depoliticisation of Israeli sport harmed the status of the sports organisations and hence the USCSFI’s status as well. During Israel’s fourth decade, the USCSFI joined and became part of the Maccabi World Union.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-06DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2022.2111601
Amanda Callan-Spenn, C. Harrison, Tanya K. Jones
ABSTRACT The British Society of Sports History is actively working towards a more diverse and inclusive membership alongside the aim of encouraging a more representative research output in the field of sports history in Britain. This article provides an introduction to the process of developing and implementing strategies towards this intention. The article sits alongside and is informed by texts from authors such as Skillen and Osborne who have highlighted the continuing gender divide within sports history and the traditional leaning towards a male centred approach, and Evans et al, who have recently focussed on the disappointing legacy of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement within the field. Not limited to these particular underrepresented groups, the article considers the questions which need to be asked to produce useful and considered policies for inclusivity. With collaboration from members of the North American Society for Sport History, the author draws no conclusions, but hopes to contribute to the debate related to the inclusion of marginalised or underrepresented individuals within our sphere of academia.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-31DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2022.2113012
Şevket Akyıldız
{"title":"Egypt’s football revolution: emotion, masculinity, and uneasy politics","authors":"Şevket Akyıldız","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2022.2113012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2022.2113012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"43 1","pages":"130 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45515710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-29DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2022.2113013
Conor Curran
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Pub Date : 2022-08-29DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2022.2111600
Matthew L. Mcdowell
ABSTRACT This article examines the evolving historiography of ‘sport’ vis-à-vis the British Society of Sports History (BSSH), as per fluid and shifting definitions of what the term ‘sport’ means. It begins by discussing broad themes within the previous historiography of UK sport. Afterwards, it roughly quantifies the content of articles the BSSH’s journal The Sports Historian/Sport in History during the period 1993–2021, with an emphasis on sporting forms and emerging trends. Finally, the author provides a similar discussion of the topics of conference papers at annual meetings of the BSSH during the period 2011–21. Throughout this article, the author, Chair of the Society from 2017 to 2019, attempts to provide some causal explanations for why certain sporting forms are popular points of discussion, how others are pushing the envelope of the term ‘sport’, and issues therein.
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