While @davidolusoga.bsky.social excellent Empire series is showing on the BBC, which includes a bit about Indian indentured labour in episode 2, I thought it was a good time to re-showcase Min Carter's video explaining her ceramic installation about indenture.

While @davidolusoga.bsky.social excellent Empire series is showing on the BBC, which includes a bit about Indian indentured labour in episode 2, I thought it was a good time to re-showcase Min Carter's video explaining her ceramic installation about indenture.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TMUEU... Malcolm Tozer has reviewed Games, Greek and Pluck in History of Education

The role of English public schools and classicism in the development of modern sports idrottsforum.org/bolhan_carte...

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TMUEU... Malcolm Tozer has reviewed Games, Greek and Pluck in History of Education

Pleased to have been quoted by Amit Roy here www.easterneye.biz/india-englan...

There's a video explaining the piece here ... hindzeit.wordpress.com/2023/07/28/w...

Just found this reminder of Min Carter's amazing installation inspired by the history of indentured Indian labour www.colourindesignaward.org/post/one-to-...

An excellent piece from @carissachew.bsky.social examining the terminology of mixed race in the British Empire.

There are still places to be had at this year's Postgrad and ECR Workshop at the BSSH Conference. PLease see the following link for details. www.sportinhistory.org/articles/202...

Classical education in British public schools had a profound impact on the development of modern sport throughout the world. @royalhistsoc.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @enghistrev.bsky.social @acrsn.bsky.social

New blog: the mysterious origin of the word 'soccer'. There are no fewer than three examples of 'soccer' or 'socker' in late 1885, all printed a few days apart in school magazines from different parts of the country.

How classical reception shaped the development of 19th century sport.

Applications for the BSSH annual conference in Belfast this summer are now open. Abstracts of 200 words on any aspect of sport are welcomed, the deadline for submissions is 7th May 2025..

blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... Out now!!

www.amazon.co.uk/Games-Greek-... Out now and currently £5 off!!

The physical copies have arrived. Games, Greek and Pluck is available for order online and in book shops now!!

www.peterlang.com/document/146... It's at the printers now!!

To mark the bicentenary of the world's first football club, founded in Edinburgh in 1824, I'll be giving a talk at the National Records of Scotland on 4 December, 1.30pm. In person or online, tickets are free and bookable now. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/200-years-...

On Now! Andy Mitchell talking about the roots of football in Edinburgh in December 1824 www.youtube.com/live/z4YhLWe...

I've just sent back the final proofs with a couple of tweeks to the index and bibliography and it will be printing any day now. Exciting times ahead as at last I can think about my next project.

Our long-standing friend and frequent contributor to the conference @andymitchellmedia.bsky.social is giving two talks in Edinburgh & Glasgow next month to discuss his long-standing research on the world’s first football club which was formed 200 years ago this year!

Studying, researching or teaching the histories of disability? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 650,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH

THE INDEPENDENT HISTORIAN Zoom meeting Mon 2 Dec 17.00 GMT How do Independent Historians maintain academic excellence and rigour without institutional affiliation? Melanie Backe-Hansen, Mark Crail, John Sanders & John Townley share inspirations and methods of working. More: www.bit.ly/p-d-c-1

Europe's oldest working lighthouse the Tower of Hercules at A' Corunna, Galicia, Spain is a wonder to behold and gives a good idea of what the Pharos of Alexandria may have looked like. Seen here on a sunny day last month, the mist on the headland made it invisible until we were quite close.

Happy to be interviewed by @whuhistorian.bsky.social for the Sport in History podcast. In this episode, I discuss my book Surfing and Modernity in the North of Scotland.

It was an absolute delight to interview @yorkhillyankee.bsky.social for the podcast about his new book! In our hour-long chat, we covered culture, the environment, tourism and how important Ceefax was to surfers amongst many other things. If you’re interested in finding out more, give it a listen 🙂

As it's #BlackHistoryMonth why not read Beyond The Pale online at www.researchgate.net/publication/...

It's nearly here

The next event at the National Army Museum in London will be held on October 16 and will be on the theme of Football and War tickets now on sale..

Applications are open for the 2025 International Football Conference at Windsor Park, Belfast, to be held on the 13th & 14th June 2025. To present at the event proposals must be 150 words and reach [email protected] by 6th of January 2025. Delegates must also register here... bit.ly/FootyCon25.

@outsidewrite.bsky.social There is info on the BSSH site, at www.sportinhistory.org/categories/f...

The latest issue of the International Journal of the History Vol 41: 2&3 is due soon, check it out here... issue.https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fhsp20/41/2-3?nav=tocList

CALL FOR PAPERS: Sport, “islands”, people, and politics Saturday, 28 June 2025: the St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall, Orkney. Jointly supported by the Scottish Society of Northern Studies (northernstudies.bsky.social) and the British Society of Sports History.