Happy International Tea Day! Picture credit - Alex Morgan's iconic tea drinking celebration at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. #sportshistory #InternationalTeaDay #TeaDay #UWNT #FIFAWWC #ThrowBackThursday

Every FIFA World Cup poster since 1930 via Reuters Pictures - www.reuters.com/pictures/eve... #sportshistory #FIFAWorldCup #FIFAWC #Art

One of the great football stats! Unai Emery has now won the UEFA Europa League five times, but always with a team which has Villa in the name! SeVILLA (2013-14) SeVILLA (2014-15) SeVILLA (2015-16) VILLArreal (2020-21) Aston VILLA (2025-26) #sportshistory #AstonVilla #EuropaLeague

38 wins and still going. #sportshistory via the England @redrosesrugby.bsky.social !

Looking forward to the return of Test Match cricket and the start of the Women's T20 World Cup this summer? Our NEW Cricket Management Postgraduate Certificate could be the course for you! Learn more - www.dmu.ac.uk/current-stud... #sportsmanagement #T20WorldCup #cricket #sportshistory

What is the origin of the 'Fosbury Flop'? Look out for @icshc.bsky.social Emeritus Professor Martin Polley @historymartin.bsky.social in the June issue of @historyextra.bsky.social Magazine with the answer. Available in shops now! #sportshistory #athletics #OlympicGames

World's first international football stadium given protected status by Historic Environment Scotland. Full details - www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/new... #sportshistory #football #footballhistory

Registration NOW OPEN! '(Re)fashioning women's leisure: image, material and place, 1850-present' to be held on Thursday 25 June from 9:15am - 4:30pm at @dmu.ac.uk Leicester and led by @icshc.bsky.social PhD student @emmyailish.bsky.social. Details at - www.eventbrite.com/e/refashioni... #fashion

Born #OnThisDay in 1924 - Newcastle United FC legend, Jackie Milburn. His Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry is by @icshc.bsky.social Emeritus Professor Richard Holt - www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1... #sportshistory #NUFC

New FIFA Master 'Where are they now?' interview with 2007 graduate, Eric Amstein, who is now Co-Lead Marketing and Communication at Swiss Alpine Club SAC. He began his course studies here at the @icshc.bsky.social in the Humanities of Sport - www.cies.ch/education/fi... #sportshistory #DMU

#sportshistory 50 years ago.

Registration NOW OPEN for the British Society of Sports History Annual Conference 2026 at University of Edinburgh from Thursday 27 August 2026 – Friday 28 August 2026 at this link: www.efdelegates.ed.ac.uk/Registration... #sportshistory @bssh.bsky.social

Applications for September 2026 start on our Postgraduate Distance Learning MA in Sports History and Culture are NOW OPEN! Find out more at this link - www.dmu.ac.uk/study/course... #sportshistory #culture #heritage #FIFAWC #Olympics #OlympicGames @dmuhistory.bsky.social

Ten years ago today Leicester City Football Club completed the most iconic title winning season in history and lifted the Premier League Trophy at odds of 5000/1. Picture by @icshc.bsky.social James Panter. #sportshistory #OnThisDay #LCFC #LeicesterCityFC #PremierLeague

Interested in the history of sport? Considering postgraduate study? Want a distance-learning course that is flexible and offers full and part-time study routes? Our MA Sports History and Culture could be for you! @icshc.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk dmu.ac.uk/study/course...

'When football turned to penalties to end 'cruel' system'. #sportshistory via BBC Sport - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Venus Williams attends the Met Gala 2026 wearing a dress design which includes inspiration from the Wimbledon Venus Rosewater Trophy Dish. #sportshistory #wimbledon #fashion #MetGala2026

‘How about that trip to Worcester!’ Building sporting links between Britain and the USA in the 1920s. Article by @icshc.bsky.social Emeritus Prof. Dilwyn Porter for the Society for American Soccer History - www.ussoccerhistory.org/how-about-th... #sportshistory #soccer #soccerhistory

The FIFA Master 26th edition class gathered for Day Two of their Zurich field visit programme and a special welcome by the FIFA Museum. Full report - www.cies.ch/cies/news/ne... #sportshistory #footballhistory

Registration NOW OPEN! '(Re)fashioning women's leisure: image, material and place, 1850-present' to be held on Thursday 25 June from 9:15am - 4:30pm at @dmu.ac.uk and led by @icshc.bsky.social PhD student @emmyailish.bsky.social. Details - www.eventbrite.com/e/refashioni... #sportshistory #fashion

'Sport in Victorian Dublin' by Julien Clénet (University College Dublin). NEW publication in Peter Lang Sport, History and Culture series edited by @icshc.bsky.social Prof. Matthew Taylor, Emeritus Prof. Richard Holt + Prof Fiona Skillen (Glasgow Caledonian) - Info: www.peterlang.com/document/140...

'Protecting what matters': a new government policy paper identifies history as central to social cohesion. At the same time, history teaching and research, in our schools and universities, is at risk as never before. To ensure cohesion, we must protect what matters: bit.ly/3QyZQCO #skystorians

Celebrating 30 years of excellence in Sports History! We’re catching up with our @icshc.bsky.social alumni for our 30th anniversary. If you studied on our MA Sports History & Culture, we want to hear about your professional journey! Share updates here - forms.office.com/e/AiZqd6yzxz #sportshistory

In a London 1908 first, the marathon was run over the now-standard official distance of 26.2 miles (42.195km). Read more via The IOC at this link - www.olympics.com/ioc/news/oly... #sportshistory #LondonMarathon #Olympics

#sportshistory at the weekend. Congratulations to Kenya’s, Sabastian Sawe, who becomes the first person ever to break the 2-hour barrier in official race conditions, with his historic London Marathon time of 1:59:30! #LondonMarathon

Great new FIFA Master 'Where are they now?' interview with 2017 graduate, Manuel Cid Goncalves from Portugal. Manuel began his course studies in the Humanities of Sport here at the @icshc.bsky.social at @dmu.ac.uk - www.cies.ch/education/fi... #sportshistory #WhereAmbitionBegins

'How I came to write This Sporting Life: Sport & Liberty in England 1760–1960'. Article by @icshc.bsky.social Emeritus Prof. Robert Colls for LEICESTER LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. Scroll down link for - Volume 119 • 2025 (Page 13) - www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk/Publications #sportshistory

On this day, 23 April 1920, ice hockey made its Olympic debut at Antwerp 1920. Full story via the IOC - www.olympics.com/en/news/this... #sportshistory #OnThisDay #WinterOlympics

'Middle man'. Look out for @icshc.bsky.social Centre Director Prof. Matt Taylor's @matttayl.bsky.social new article in @wsc.co.uk Magazine this month (May Issue 464) on the varied roles and career of Jimmy Jewell. #sportshistory #footballhistory

It was #sportshistory at the weekend as the England Lionesses played their 500th fixture during a 1 - 0 World Cup qualifier victory against Iceland in Reykjavik. #Lionesses

Venue of Lionesses' first home game honoured. Full story - www.englandfootball.com/articles/202... #sportshistory

This weekend Leicester Tigers Rugby Club will reach a major #sportshistory milestone when they play their 5000th fixture against Newcastle Red Bull. #LeicesterTigers #Rugby #RugbyHistory

‘I could wipe the floor with you, man’: the exhibition on female football fans’ experiences - via @theguardian.com - www.theguardian.com/football/202... #sportshistory #womeninsport

'How will countries boycotting Eurovision affect the contest?' @icshc.bsky.social Dr Heather Dichter speaks to the BBC World Service - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

NEW - Football player and Legendary Northern Ireland manager, Billy Bingham, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry by @icshc.bsky.social Emeritus Professor Mike Cronin - www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1... #sportshistory #football #footballhistory

History makers again! England @redrosesrugby.bsky.social It's 35 Women's Six Nations victories in a row. #sportshistory #Womens6Nations #RedRoses

NEW - Rugby League administrator and 'most influential figure of a generation' - Maurice Lindsay, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry by @icshc.bsky.social Emeritus Professor Tony Collins - www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1... #sportshistory #rugbyleague

NEW - Motorcycle racer - and 'The Prince of Speed' - Phil Read, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry by @icshc.bsky.social Dr Neil Carter - www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1... #sportshistory #motorbikes #racing

NEW - Team GB Winter Olympic Games Bobsleigh Gold Medal winner, Tony Nash, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry by @icshc.bsky.social Dr Heather Dichter - www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1... #sportshistory #winterolympics #bobsleigh

NEW - Fulham and England World Cup winner, George Cohen, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry by @icshc.bsky.social Emeritus Professor Dilwyn Porter - www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1... #sportshistory #football #footballhistory #WorldCup66

CD Gopinath, the last surviving member of India's first Test win, has died in Chennai at the age of 96. He was India's oldest living Test cricketer and the second oldest worldwide after Australia's Neil Harvey. #sportshistory #cricket #crickethistory

Interested in the history of sport? Considering postgraduate study? Want a distance-learning course that is flexible and offers full and part-time study routes? Our MA Sports History and Culture could be for you! @icshc.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk dmu.ac.uk/study/course...

Congratulations to @arsenalwfc.bsky.social and England Lionesses captain, Leah Williamson, on her Laureus 'World Comeback of the Year' Nomination. #sportshistory

This weekend La Liga will launch its first ever 'Retro Matchday' with thirty-eight of the forty-two teams in Spain's top two divisions playing in retro shirts to celebrate each club's cultural identity - www.laliga.com/en-GB/news/l... #sportshistory #heritage #LaLiga

New Cricket Management Postgraduate Certificate course launched at @dmu.ac.uk. Learn more at this link - www.dmu.ac.uk/current-stud... #sportshistory #cricket #cricketmanagement

RFU to Award Retrospective Caps to Players Who Represented England in Historic Fixtures. www.englandrugby.com/follow/news-... #sportshistory #rugby #rugbyhistory

New FIFA Master 'Where are they now?' interview as we catch up this week with 2024 graduate Alice Yoon from South Korea. Alice, who began her studies here at the @icshc.bsky.social, is now Media Partnerships Sales Manager at FIFA. Read more - www.cies.ch/education/fi... #sportshistory #WomenInSport

48/48 Men's FIFA World Cup 2026 - the final confirmed qualified nations. #sportshistory #FIFAWorldCup #FIFAWC

126 years of Uruguayan Football. Happy anniversary! #sportshistory #footballhistory

FIFA Master Alumni Samson Adamu appointed as interim General Secretary of the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF). Samson began his FIFA Master course studies in the Humanities of Sport here at the @icshc.bsky.social - www.cies.ch/education/fi... #sportshistory #WhereAmbitionBegins @dmu.ac.uk