Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.2019823
Daphné Bolz, J. Saint-Martin
{"title":"Physical education and bodily strengthening on either side of the Rhine: a transnational history of the French bill on physical education and its German reception (1920-1921)","authors":"Daphné Bolz, J. Saint-Martin","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.2019823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.2019823","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT After the Great War, many European countries embarked upon a voluntarist policy to promote physical education and, more broadly, the bodily strengthening of their population. Nevertheless, this movement was marked as much by singular national variations as by the observation of foreign programmes and practices. The aim of this paper is to study the German perception of French initiatives in the light of the fragile Franco-German relations. It analyses a brochure published in 1921 by the Deutscher Reichsausschuss für Leibesübungen (DRA), the most important sports federation under the Weimar Republic. This exceptional 11-page document has an emblematic title: Frankreich und wir! (France and us!) It presents the 1920 French government’s bill in favour of bodily strengthening and compares each point with claims made by the German leaders. In this way, it highlights the tireless voluntarism of German sports leaders and the international competition in the development of sports and physical education movements. Finally, this brochure is an exemplary testimony to the development of physical activities according to national models and the growing influence of foreign exemplars in the diffusion of physical education models in connection with national reconstructions. The sources used include historical publications and archives from Germany and France.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"43 1","pages":"28 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47552099","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 : 2021-12-12DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.2007454
C. Jones
{"title":"Sport, war and the British: 1850 to present","authors":"C. Jones","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.2007454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.2007454","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48104455","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 : 2021-11-12DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1991993
Lydia J. Furse, D. Mason
{"title":"Women in the World Rugby Museum archive in three case studies","authors":"Lydia J. Furse, D. Mason","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1991993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1991993","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT An object without a story offers limited interpretation options to a conscientious museum team. The World Rugby Museum (WRM) houses objects classified as national treasures, such as the Calcutta Cup, but it is also home to a miscellaneous collection related to the history of female participation in rugby union. The newly refurbished WRM is dedicated to telling the multidimensional history of rugby, including women’s rugby. However, the gender bias of rugby as a male-dominated sport is reflected in the archives, and some of the female-specific archival sources have yet to be entirely understood. The collaboration between museum and academic partner through a research student allows the rich, but admittedly limited, sources at the WRM to be explored to their full potential, providing opportunities for further interpretation within exhibitions, and to expand the WRM archives regarding the history of women in rugby union. This paper presents three case studies to illustrate the ways in which the WRM is benefitting from a collaborative doctoral research project.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"43 1","pages":"274 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46910521","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 : 2021-11-02DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1995646
Conor Curran
{"title":"The History of Physical Culture in Ireland","authors":"Conor Curran","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1995646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1995646","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45976423","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 : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1985600
Keith Rathbone
{"title":"Another look at the death of Rugby League in Vichy France","authors":"Keith Rathbone","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1985600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1985600","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since the 1990s, scholars interested in French Rugby League have argued that the Fédération française de rugby, France’s Rugby Union organisation, and especially its honorary president Paul Voivenel, collaborated with a cabal inside the Vichy government to destroy their League rivals who had ‘rebelled against the authority of French rugby’. Although the Vichy regime absolutely attacked Rugby League, the evidence for a conspiracy between Rugby Union federation and the state remains unsupported by any evidence. A rereading of the sources on Vichy’s engagement with French Rugby League shows that their despoliation fell in line with other reforms undertaken by the French state at the same time. The Vichy French state undermined French Rugby League in line with their efforts to rationalise sports and maximise the number of athletes and contests across the metropole.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"43 1","pages":"55 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46840400","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 : 2021-09-09DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1972330
Grégory Quin
{"title":"The hotelier, the politician and the skier. On the founding moment of alpine skiing in St. Moritz","authors":"Grégory Quin","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1972330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1972330","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Beyond the competition between several alpine states (Austria, Switzerland, France, etc.), the emergence of the alpine version of skiing is a complex process that combines the rise of winter tourism, technical developments enabling access to the mountain regions and the increasing sportification of leisure practices. Thus, it focuses on a period of time from the end of the nineteenth century up to the interwar, with specific attention to the late 1920s. Straddling tourism study, sport history and elite sociability, it is a process that has not been studied that much in the historiography. Through this contribution, our aim is to analyse the local conditions presiding over the emergence of ‘alpine skiing’, considering an episode played out in St. Moritz at a particular moment – the years leading up to and after the organisation of the 1928 Olympic Games – as indicators of more global processes. We based our analysis on the rich archives of the city of St. Moritz (political authorities, tourist office, hotel infrastructures, ski club), never really used in historical work on the birth of alpine skiing, and several other institutions such as international sports federations and national organisations.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"42 1","pages":"213 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41813586","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 : 2021-08-29DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1973547
J. Fisher
{"title":"Cricket and social status in the early nineteenth century: the career of Richard Cheslyn 1797–1858","authors":"J. Fisher","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1973547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1973547","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The maintenance of social status was important in cricket in the early nineteenth century as the upper classes participated increasingly in a game where they competed with their social inferiors. They could only play as amateurs; gentlemen did not get paid. This was not a problem for most but it was for some. Playing cricket had to be supported financially (outside of the village level) and this paper examines the manner in which Richard Cheslyn was able to play the game while maintaining his status as a gentleman between the 1820s and 1850s. Cheslyn was born the heir to a landed estate in Leicestershire and brought up accordingly. However, by the time he came of age the prospect of his inheritance was in doubt and disappeared entirely soon afterwards. Forced to seek alternative forms of support, he found a partial answer in cricket. An enthusiastic (if not first-rate) player, he was able, for a period, to finance his participation in the game and maintain his status and lifestyle through organising matches and gambling. When all else failed, he was rescued through a network of influential friends, gained in large part from his role in Leicestershire cricket.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"42 1","pages":"159 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44293344","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 : 2021-08-24DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1969749
P. Beck
{"title":"Sport and the Home Front: wartime Britain at play 1939–45","authors":"P. Beck","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1969749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1969749","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"42 1","pages":"565 - 567"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42630146","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 : 2021-08-12DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1963057
Chris Bolsmann
{"title":"Sir Stanley Rous and the growth of world football: an Englishman abroad","authors":"Chris Bolsmann","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1963057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1963057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47740126","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 : 2021-08-08DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1963062
Geoffrey Levett
{"title":"Too black to wear whites: Krom Hendricks, the remarkable story of a cricket hero who was rejected by the Empire","authors":"Geoffrey Levett","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1963062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1963062","url":null,"abstract":"This is the biography of possibly the greatest fast bowler you’ve never heard of, the Cape Malay (to use the terminology of the time) player, William Henry (‘Krom’) Hendricks. First published in So...","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":"42 1","pages":"433 - 435"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48645232","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}