Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2023-11-18DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2023.2273284
Mike Rylance
{"title":"Response to Keith Rathbone, ‘Another look at the death of Rugby League in Vichy France’, Sport in History 43:1 (2023): 55–80","authors":"Mike Rylance","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2023.2273284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2023.2273284","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Sport in History (Vol. 43, No. 4, 2023)","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514829","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}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2023-11-18DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2023.2273257
Robert Fassolette
{"title":"Response to Keith Rathbone, ‘Another look at the death of Rugby League in Vichy France’, Sport in History 43:1 (2023): 55–80","authors":"Robert Fassolette","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2023.2273257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2023.2273257","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Sport in History (Vol. 43, No. 4, 2023)","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514831","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}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2023-11-18DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2023.2275140
Keith Rathbone
{"title":"Response to Robert Fassolette and Mark Rylance","authors":"Keith Rathbone","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2023.2275140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2023.2275140","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Sport in History (Vol. 43, No. 4, 2023)","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514847","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}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2023.2279974
Dave Day
{"title":"‘Untiring’ in her efforts on behalf of the team and discharging her duties ‘in the most capable manner’; female coaches in Edwardian Britain","authors":"Dave Day","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2023.2279974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2023.2279974","url":null,"abstract":"The compliments paid to Clara Jarvis by the Amateur Swimming Association in recognition of her contribution as trainer to the women’s swimming team at the 1912 Olympics marked a unique public recog...","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514865","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}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2023-10-28DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2023.2266675
Chris Bolsmann
{"title":"Soccer and society in Dublin: a history of association football in Ireland’s capital <b>Soccer and society in Dublin: a history of association football in Ireland’s capital</b> , by Conor Curran, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2023, 352 pp., €35.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-8015-1039-4","authors":"Chris Bolsmann","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2023.2266675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2023.2266675","url":null,"abstract":"\"Soccer and society in Dublin: a history of association football in Ireland’s capital.\" Sport in History, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"94 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136158510","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}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2023-10-22DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2023.2270946
Lucy Boucher, Conor Heffernan
{"title":"A great weight lifted the history of the British Amateur Weight-lifting Association","authors":"Lucy Boucher, Conor Heffernan","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2023.2270946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2023.2270946","url":null,"abstract":"Despite its longevity as an Olympic sport, Olympic weight-lifting has yet to receive sustained scholarly attention, an observation made all the more confusing when one considers weight-lifting’s inclusion at the 1896 Olympic Games and its rich nineteenth century history. The dearth of studies on weight-lifting outside of the United States can be found in the paucity of histories on individual national federations. This is certainly the case in Great Britain where BAWLA (the British Amateur Weight-lifting Association) was founded in the early 1900s. This article provides the first comprehensive history of BAWLA’s foundation and, in doing so, establishes the reliance that British weight-lifting had on European weight-lifting in terms of athletes, organisers and inspiration. In doing so it tracks the shift from strength performances in an informal setting (music halls, gyms, circuses etc.) to standardised sporting practices. First founded in 1901, BAWLA ceased operating before re-emerging in the 1910s. The purpose of this article is two-fold. First it discusses BAWLA’s creation (in both instances) and, more importantly, highlights its European relationships. The article thus stresses the transnational influences existing in British weight-lifting and physical culture during this period.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"41 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135461890","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}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2023.2257653
Justin Muchnick
{"title":"Olympic flames, Olympic films: ancient Greece and international peace at London 1948","authors":"Justin Muchnick","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2023.2257653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2023.2257653","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis essay offers a comparative analysis of the reception of ancient Greece at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the 1948 London Olympics. Focusing specifically on the respective Games’ torch relays and official films, it explores the ways that the contrasting messages of the 1936 and 1948 Games as a whole were advanced through symbolic engagement with Greek antiquity. In 1936, the torch relay and the subsequent film (Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia) invoked Greek antiquity in the service of zealous nationalism, positioning Nazi Germany as the living embodiment of the glorious legacy of ancient Greece. In 1948, on the other hand, the relay and film (Castleton Knight’s XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport) portrayed ancient Greece as a benign example from the distant past toward which all modern-day nations could turn for inspiration in dealing with each other in peace. Ultimately, what makes this 1948 attempt to pacify Nazi Germany’s 1936 Olympic Hellenism even more interesting is that it was only partially successful: although London 1948 stripped away the spirit of Nazism from certain classicised elements of Berlin 1936, there also remained an unsettling coherence between the Olympic messaging of pre-war Germany and post-war Britain.KEYWORDS: 1948 London Olympics1936 Berlin Olympicsclassical receptionOlympic torch relayLeni Riefenstahl AcknowledgmentsThe author would like to thank Nigel Spivey for his guidance and kindness, as well as Michael Squire, Carrie Vout, and the two referees for their thoughtful feedback on earlier drafts of this essay.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Michael Mackenzie, ‘From Athens to Berlin: The 1936 Olympics and Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia’, Critical Inquiry 29, no. 2 (Winter 2003): 317.2 Richard D. Mandell, The Nazi Olympics (London: Souvenir Press, 1971), xi.3 Scott Venters, ‘“Would You Die for the Fatherland?” Disciplining the German Commemorative Body’, Theatre History Studies 35 (2016): 58.4 Toon Van Houdt, ‘The Imperfect Body in Nazi Germany: Ancient Concepts, Modern Technologies’, in Disability in Antiquity, ed. Christian Laes, (London: Routledge, 2016), 475–6; Iain Boyd Whyte, ‘National Socialism, Classicism, and Architecture’, in Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, ed. Helen Roche and Kyriakos N. Demetriou (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 420–3.5 Alex Scobie, Hitler’s State Architecture: The Impact of Classical Antiquity (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990); Frederic Spotts, Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics (New York: Overlook Press, 2003).6 Bob Phillips, The 1948 Olympics: How London Rescued the Games (Cheltenham: Sportsbooks, 2007), 1, 7–9.7 Janie Hampton, The Austerity Olympics: When the Games Came to London in 1948 (London: Aurum Press, 2008), 65–70, 138, 146. The year before Hampton, sportswriter Bob Phillips released his general-audience book on the 1948 Olympics (cited above), but his primary interest ","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135784939","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}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2023.2246430
R. Ramamoorthy
{"title":"The politics of piety: Muslim self-fashioning in Pakistani cricketers’ autobiographies","authors":"R. Ramamoorthy","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2023.2246430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2023.2246430","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48765152","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}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2023-08-27DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2023.2247234
Rafaelle Nicholson
{"title":"Everybody wants to rule the world: Britain, sport and the 1980s","authors":"Rafaelle Nicholson","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2023.2247234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2023.2247234","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46473284","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}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2023-08-27DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2023.2209046
J. Fair
{"title":"Eugen Sandow and eugenics","authors":"J. Fair","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2023.2209046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2023.2209046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44233876","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}