Dr John Sharples
@jjsharples.bsky.social
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Occasional historian of chess & chess-players
https://lancaster.academia.edu/JohnSharples
My fifth Sport in History article (2024) examined the history of de la Bourdonnais and McDonnellâs great chess match in the nineteenth century - âStill and dark assembliesâ: the narrativised chess-player in urban & literary culture, 1834â1864
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My fourth Sport in History article âThe machine being set in motionâ: the automaton chess-player in urban & literary culture, 1839â1851' (2021), examined leisure & sporting practices, and themes of curiosity & respectability, in relation to the famous automaton:
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âThe machine being set in motionâ: the automaton chess-player in urban and literary culture, 1839â1851
This article examines nineteenth-century chess-player and writer George Walkerâs essay âAnatomy of the Chess Automatonâ (1839). Walkerâs writing frequently highlighted how spaces of urban modernity...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17460263.2021.1906310
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My third Sport in History article (2018) considered George Walkerâs historical-fiction âA Night in York â A Chess Adventure of 1842â, in which the author imagines a night-time meeting with a ghostly medieval chess-player đ»
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George Walker and the ghost: the chess-player in urban and literary culture, 1840â51
This article aims to contextualise the nineteenth-century chess-player and writer George Walkerâs involvement within urban and literary culture. Continuing research published in two recent Sport in...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17460263.2018.1428680
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My second Sport in History article (2017) considered nineteenth-century blindfold chess-play and its intersection with themes of (again) respectability and monstrosity:
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âThis dark worldâ: the blindfold chess-player in Victorian literary and urban culture
George Walker's March 1840 article for Fraser's Magazine entitled âChess Without the Chess-Boardâ outlined the history and method of blindfold chess (or chess-play without sight of the board and pi...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17460263.2017.1307783
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My first article (Sport in History, 2015) looked at George Walker's essay on the Café de la Régence and the way chess-play could become entangled with themes of respectability:
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âI am a Chess-playerâ: Respectability in Literary and Urban Space, 1840â1851
Between 1840 and 1851, amateur and professional chess became an increasingly prominent part of the Victorian leisure world. A rapid rise in both literary output on the game and the number of places...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17460263.2015.1023825?src=recsys
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My long-term research project is an examination of George Walker's 'Chess and Chess-Players' essays (1850). So far I've written five articles for Sport in History on the Café de la Régence, blindfold chess-playing, the automaton chess-player, a ghostly chess-player, & on how chess-play was recorded.
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In the spirit of new beginnings, Iâll try to summarise my research on chess & chess-players over the next few days & post links to it. To start, hereâs my academia page:
lancaster.academia.edu/JohnSharples
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John Sharples | Lancaster University - Academia.edu
PhD in History from Lancaster University
[email protected]
https://lancaster.academia.edu/JohnSharples
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Staying warm đ§€
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Feel Good Club in Manchester
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Hereâs some more info on my 2017 book âMinds, Machines, & Monsters: A Cultural History of Chess-Playersâ -
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784994204/
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Manchester University Press - A cultural history of chess-players
A cultural history of chess-players - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of A cultural history of chess-players by John Sharples
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784994204/
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reposted by
Dr John Sharples
BSSH
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The BSSH 2025 Annual Conference will be held at the University of Ulster (
www.ulster.ac.uk/campuses/bel...
). It runs from 20th to 22nd August 2025, and the call for papers will be announced in the new year. Please contact Katie Taylor at
[email protected]
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Belfast
Ulster University Belfast is situated in the artistic and cultural centre of the city, the Cathedral Quarter.
https://www.ulster.ac.uk/campuses/belfast
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Anybody can now read my new article on the history of de la Bourdonnais and McDonnellâs great chess match in the nineteenth century - âStill and dark assembliesâ: the narrativised chess-player in urban & literary culture, 1834â1864
#chess
#history
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Lancaster Castle
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