👀A la Une this week! Let's talk about eSports 🎮🎲🎯 An article by Jean Loup Chappelet from @unil.bsky.social "The Inclusion of eSports in the Olympic System: From Neglect to eSports Games" Check it out ⤵️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

👀New article out now! "Tennis for Anyone?: Class and Social Transformation on the Court in Eric Ravilious’ Tennis (1930)" by Mike O’Mahony from @bristoluni.bsky.social Department of History of Art. Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article out 🗞️ "Poland -The Land of Winter Sports: The Visual Representations of Skiing and Ice Hockey in the Polish Section of the 1932 Olympic Art Competition in Los Angeles" by Przemysław Strożek from Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences ⤵️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🗞️Today’s featured article is by Tafadzwa Blessing Choto from Midlands State University 🇿🇼, who received @ijhs.bsky.social Best Article Prize in 2025 for his article “An Olympic Fairytale: The Zimbabwean Women’s Field Hockey Victory at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🧐"A la une" this week: 🥋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 "International Sport Success in a Non-Sovereign Nation: The Case of Judo in Scotland" by Pippa Chapman, and Louis Nolte from University of Edinburgh Have a look ⤵️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today’s featured article is by Celia Valiente, who received the @ijhs.bsky.social Best Article Prize in 2024 for her article “Weak Foundations: The Origins of Women’s Football in Spain, 1894–1931” Give it another read, it’s brilliant ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🗞️The article "Beneath the Caps with Falcon Feathers: Visual Symbolism and National Identity in Czech and Polish Sokol Ceremonial Costumes" by Petra Willerthová from @masarykuniversity.bsky.social 🇨🇿 is just published! Come and read it ▶️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨The article "Sports as a Lifestyle: The Magazine Moderne Welt and Visualizing the Bourgeoisie in Interwar Austria" by Christian Drobe from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, is just published! Come and read it ▶️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨The article "Total Football: An English Construction of Dutch National Identity" is just published. An important work by Robert Weston from Loughborough College, UK Check it out ⤵️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨The article "Conquering the desert by automobile : Modern art and colonial era press coverage of the Moroccan Rally" by Rachel Ozerkevich is just published. Check it out ▶️ t.co/8HC5VYZqCa

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🚨New article! "The Lamido Yaya Daïrou Stadium of Maroua: A Site of Memory and a Source of History" is just published. Check it out 📷 By Ibrahimou Hamadou, University of Maroua, 🇨🇲 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨The article "The Emergence of ‘Sport for All’ in Socialist Yugoslavia" is just published. Check it out ⤵️ An important work by Marko Begovic and Dejan Zec: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣"A la une" this month: Article by Alfonso Manas @uofcalifornia.bsky.social: New Evidence of Women Fighting Beasts in the Roman Arena: The Woman in the Mosaic from Reims". Check the article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Why this article matters ⬇️

There is a soon to be published @ijhs.bsky.social article on the Dutch total football. I also suggest my work on football during the German occupation & the country’s return to FIFA www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sport at War: Nithard’s Strasbourg Cavalry Games of 842 Christopher P. Flynn IJHS vol43:1 p24-38 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Play Days and the Elastic Languages of Reform: Gender, Race, and Class in Interwar America Yi Zhang, You Li & Kohei Kawashima IJHS vol43:1 p5-23 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really glad to have @barnethartston.bsky.social new article in @ijhs.bsky.social #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️

I’ve published a new article in the International Journal of the History of Sport: “Homing Pigeon Sport, Militarism, and Bürgerlich Masculinity in Imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary.” I’m grateful to @hdichter.bsky.social and all at @ijhs.bsky.social for making this an easy and rewarding process.

Play Days and the Elastic Languages of Reform: Gender, Race, and Class in Interwar America Yi Zhang, You Li & Kohei Kawashima IJHS vol43:1 p5-23 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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New #Netball paper! Just published in @ijhs.bsky.social - ‘Here to Just Play’: Investigating the Violent Protests That Occurred in Melbourne During South Africa’s Netball Tour of Australia in 1970. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our latest @ijhs.bsky.social article is ‘What Is a Woman Doing in a Man’s Game!’: Rose Wandera, Football, and the Reimagining of Gender in Postcolonial Kenya Kara Moskowitz doi.org/10.1080/0952...

Introduction: The History of Sport in the Balkans from the Sokol Movement to Physical Culture Marko Begović, @IJHSofficial Vol 42:9, Pages: 933-936 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The Balkan Athletics Championships: The Beginnings of inter-Balkan Sports Diplomacy, 1928–1934? Cyril Polycarpe & Pascal Charitas, @IJHSofficial Vol 42:9 Pages: 1008-1025 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Best Professionals in Army and Miliţia Were the Football Players: Shamateurism in Romanian Football during the ‘Golden Epoch’, Andrei Antonie, @IJHSofficial Vol 42:9 Pages: 992-1007 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Chasing the Himalayan Train: Yugoslav Ascents of Eight-Thousanders (1975–1995), Peter Mikša, @IJHSofficial Vol 42:9, Pages: 956-975 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Intellectualizing Physical Culture: Debates on Competitive Sports and Gymnastics in the Interwar Yugoslav Sokol Association, Lucija Balikić, @IJHSofficial Vol 42:9 Pages: 937-955 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Introduction: The History of Sport in the Balkans from the Sokol Movement to Physical Culture Marko Begović, @IJHSofficial Vol 42:9, Pages: 933-936 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

SPECIAL ISSUE: THE HISTORY OF SPORT IN THE BALKANS @IJHSofficial Vol 42:9 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fhsp20/4...

Asia Pride Games (The Straits Games): Past, Present, and Future, Max D. López Toledano, @IJHSofficial Vol 42:8, Pages: 912-931 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Who Makes Good Sports Shows?: The First Velodrome Managers in France at the End of the Nineteenth Century, Sylvain Ville, @IJHSofficial Vol42:8 Pages: 896-911 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sex Testing in Volleyball, Lindsay Parks Pieper, @IJHSofficial Vol42:8 Pages 876-895 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Gymnastics in Nineteenth-Century South Africa Francois Johannes Cleophas, @IJHSofficial Vol42:8 Pages: 858-875 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Politics, the Media, and the Richard Riot: A Reappraisal Mark Brewin, @IJHSofficial Vol42:8 Pages: 836-857 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Over the next week or so we will be looking at Vol 41:8 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fhsp20/4...

‘We Have No Bamboo Curtain’: Sports Diplomacy and China’s Techniques of Reshaping Southeast Asian Perception in the Second Half of the 1950s Quanzhi Shu, @IJHSofficial Vol42:7, Pages 796-818 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Debates on Naturalized Athletes in Turkish Politics, 1986–2022: A Part of National Pride or Discontent? Elçin Istif Inci & Ayşegül Komsuoğlu, @IJHSofficial Vol 42:7, Pages: 776-795 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Player as a Job’, Beyond Elitism: A Critical Look at the History of Professional Athlete Development in South Korea, Kiwoon Kim &Yoonso Choi, @IJHSofficial Vol42:7 Pages 726-746 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Player as a Job’, Beyond Elitism: A Critical Look at the History of Professional Athlete Development in South Korea, Kiwoon Kim & Yoonso Choi, @IJHSofficial Vol42:7 Pages: 726-746 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Navigating Athlete Welfare, 1962–2023: Policy, Practice and Challenges in South Korea, Joohyun Choi, Kwangho Park, Jihyun Lee & Misuk Kim, @IJHSofficial Vol42:7 Pages: 696-725 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We will be looking at @IJHSofficial Vol 42:7 over the next few days www.tandfonline.com/toc/fhsp20/4...

Book Review The Football War: The VFA and VFL’s Battle for Supremacy By Xavier Fowler, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2024, 306 pp., AUD $39.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780522880076 reviewed by Dale Blair www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Book Review Nadando contra las corrientes: Lilian Harrison y los cruces a nado en la década de 1920 by Matthew Brown and Pablo Ariel Scharagrodsky, Buenos Aires, Prometeo, 2024, 179 pp. Ills., £16.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-631-6604-28-6 Review by David M. K. Sheinin

Tony Mangan launched two journals with Frank Cass in the late 1990s. ‘Soccer and Society’ and ‘Sport in Siciety’ were ahead of their time, and have since joined IJHS in the ranks of elite outlets for sports research. RIP. @tandfresearch.bsky.social