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British Society of Sports History promotes the study of sport history and physical education
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NEW PODCAST 🎙️
My guest is BBC journalist @alexbysouth.bsky.social, whose new book covers his search for the soul of football.
Topics include:
🇫🇷 Red Star (Paris)
🇩🇪 Babelsberg
🇮🇹 Refugee football in Napoli
...and much more...
Download/subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Here's a taster...
My guest is BBC journalist @alexbysouth.bsky.social, whose new book covers his search for the soul of football.
Topics include:
🇫🇷 Red Star (Paris)
🇩🇪 Babelsberg
🇮🇹 Refugee football in Napoli
...and much more...
Download/subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Here's a taster...
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
NEW PODCAST 🎙️
My guest is BBC journalist @alexbysouth.bsky.social, whose new book covers his search for the soul of football.
Topics include:
🇫🇷 Red Star (Paris)
🇩🇪 Babelsberg
🇮🇹 Refugee football in Napoli
...and much more...
Download/subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Here's a taster...
My guest is BBC journalist @alexbysouth.bsky.social, whose new book covers his search for the soul of football.
Topics include:
🇫🇷 Red Star (Paris)
🇩🇪 Babelsberg
🇮🇹 Refugee football in Napoli
...and much more...
Download/subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Here's a taster...
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Cracking night last night at The Volley in Old Street for the launch of Will Dalton’s new book on San Lorenzo 🇦🇷
For more, listen to my recent podcast with him open.spotify.com/episode/2wY3...
For more, listen to my recent podcast with him open.spotify.com/episode/2wY3...
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Cracking night last night at The Volley in Old Street for the launch of Will Dalton’s new book on San Lorenzo 🇦🇷
For more, listen to my recent podcast with him open.spotify.com/episode/2wY3...
For more, listen to my recent podcast with him open.spotify.com/episode/2wY3...
The venue for the 2026 British Society of Sports History has just been announced. It will be held at the John McIntyre Centre, University of Edinburgh, from 26 to 28 August 2026. See below for more details..
www.sportinhistory.org/articles/edi...
www.sportinhistory.org/articles/edi...
Edinburgh Venue for the 2026 BSSH Annual Conference
Welcome to the British Society of Sports History website. Our purpose is to promote the study of the history of sport.
www.sportinhistory.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The venue for the 2026 British Society of Sports History has just been announced. It will be held at the John McIntyre Centre, University of Edinburgh, from 26 to 28 August 2026. See below for more details..
www.sportinhistory.org/articles/edi...
www.sportinhistory.org/articles/edi...
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Full house at The Volley for the launch of Oh, San Lorenzo 🐦⬛
November 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Full house at The Volley for the launch of Oh, San Lorenzo 🐦⬛
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CfP open for @cricketacademic.bsky.social Conference @hugheshall.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk!
@rafnicholson.bsky.social @drcricket.bsky.social @bayfirth.bsky.social @bssh.bsky.social @sportinhistorypod.bsky.social @jeremylonsdale.bsky.social @russinthezone.bsky.social
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@rafnicholson.bsky.social @drcricket.bsky.social @bayfirth.bsky.social @bssh.bsky.social @sportinhistorypod.bsky.social @jeremylonsdale.bsky.social @russinthezone.bsky.social
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Call for Papers | Cricket Research Network Annual Conference | Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge (overlooking Fenner’s Cricket Ground), February 26, 2026. Call ends November 21, 2025
What looms on the horizon for cricket in 2026? In England & Wales we are contending with new ownership of The Hundred teams and the threat of player strikes in the Men’s County Championship, while loo...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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@bssh.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social Sports and Leisure History Seminar, 17 Nov, 18.00 hybrid. Atlanta Tsiaoukkas of the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature at Cambridge will speak on The Schoolgirl Sporting Heroines of Early Twentieth-Century Girls’ Fiction. tinyurl.com/2y5jhp2x
The Schoolgirl Sporting Heroines of Early Twentieth-Century Girls’ Fiction
This session will explore how early 20th-century girls’ fiction recast the schoolgirl as a sporting heroine, redefining femininity through athleticism, patriotism, and modern ...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
@bssh.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social Sports and Leisure History Seminar, 17 Nov, 18.00 hybrid. Atlanta Tsiaoukkas of the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature at Cambridge will speak on The Schoolgirl Sporting Heroines of Early Twentieth-Century Girls’ Fiction. tinyurl.com/2y5jhp2x
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#OnThisDay 6 Nov 1887 ☘️🏴
Celtic FC was founded by Marist priest, Brother Walfrid, to support the growing Irish community in Glasgow.
He was inspired by a visit from Hibernian FC of Edinburgh (1875).
More on #Celtic's founding in this podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/6E39...
Celtic FC was founded by Marist priest, Brother Walfrid, to support the growing Irish community in Glasgow.
He was inspired by a visit from Hibernian FC of Edinburgh (1875).
More on #Celtic's founding in this podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/6E39...
The Foundation of Celtic FC
open.spotify.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
#OnThisDay 6 Nov 1887 ☘️🏴
Celtic FC was founded by Marist priest, Brother Walfrid, to support the growing Irish community in Glasgow.
He was inspired by a visit from Hibernian FC of Edinburgh (1875).
More on #Celtic's founding in this podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/6E39...
Celtic FC was founded by Marist priest, Brother Walfrid, to support the growing Irish community in Glasgow.
He was inspired by a visit from Hibernian FC of Edinburgh (1875).
More on #Celtic's founding in this podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/6E39...
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DROPPING SUNDAY 🎙️
My guest is BBC journalist @alexbysouth.bsky.social, who's on the hunt for the soul of football in his new book
Here's a taster...
Sub/catch up wherever you get your podcasts, just look for 'Outside Write'
#groundhopping
My guest is BBC journalist @alexbysouth.bsky.social, who's on the hunt for the soul of football in his new book
Here's a taster...
Sub/catch up wherever you get your podcasts, just look for 'Outside Write'
#groundhopping
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
DROPPING SUNDAY 🎙️
My guest is BBC journalist @alexbysouth.bsky.social, who's on the hunt for the soul of football in his new book
Here's a taster...
Sub/catch up wherever you get your podcasts, just look for 'Outside Write'
#groundhopping
My guest is BBC journalist @alexbysouth.bsky.social, who's on the hunt for the soul of football in his new book
Here's a taster...
Sub/catch up wherever you get your podcasts, just look for 'Outside Write'
#groundhopping
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NEW POST 📣
George Best is the most famous footballer to hail from Belfast, and arguably the whole island of Ireland.
I went on his trail while I was over researching my latest book, including a visit to his childhood home.
Have a read… #NorthernIreland
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
George Best is the most famous footballer to hail from Belfast, and arguably the whole island of Ireland.
I went on his trail while I was over researching my latest book, including a visit to his childhood home.
Have a read… #NorthernIreland
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
On the trail of George Best in Belfast
One of the highlights of researching my latest book, Shades of Green: A Journey into Irish Football, was visiting George Best’s childhood home, his grave, and the many murals to the great player.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
NEW POST 📣
George Best is the most famous footballer to hail from Belfast, and arguably the whole island of Ireland.
I went on his trail while I was over researching my latest book, including a visit to his childhood home.
Have a read… #NorthernIreland
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
George Best is the most famous footballer to hail from Belfast, and arguably the whole island of Ireland.
I went on his trail while I was over researching my latest book, including a visit to his childhood home.
Have a read… #NorthernIreland
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
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Very much enjoying this book ahead of my first visit in a decade to my ‘Alma mater’, Madrid, in the spring 🇪🇸
November 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Very much enjoying this book ahead of my first visit in a decade to my ‘Alma mater’, Madrid, in the spring 🇪🇸
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Just reflecting on the FC St. Pauli stadium tour this summer.
It’s very on-brand… 🏴☠️
Here’s my post about it:
👉🏼 open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
Have you been? What did you think?
#Bundesliga #Germany #Groundhopping
It’s very on-brand… 🏴☠️
Here’s my post about it:
👉🏼 open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
Have you been? What did you think?
#Bundesliga #Germany #Groundhopping
FC St. Pauli Museum and Stadium Tour
FC Sankt Pauli, based just off Hamburg’s infamous party street, the Reeperbahn, is arguably the first modern ‘political’ football club. I went to the Millerntor-Stadion in the close season.
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Just reflecting on the FC St. Pauli stadium tour this summer.
It’s very on-brand… 🏴☠️
Here’s my post about it:
👉🏼 open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
Have you been? What did you think?
#Bundesliga #Germany #Groundhopping
It’s very on-brand… 🏴☠️
Here’s my post about it:
👉🏼 open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
Have you been? What did you think?
#Bundesliga #Germany #Groundhopping
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Well, what can one say
November 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Well, what can one say
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Did I mention I am available for football talks and lectures?
If you’re a university or club looking for a speaker to cover:
📣 Football and politics
🗣️ Football culture and national identity
🏟️ Groundhopping
Then please drop me a note:
More 👉 eightmoon.co.uk/chris-lee-fo...
If you’re a university or club looking for a speaker to cover:
📣 Football and politics
🗣️ Football culture and national identity
🏟️ Groundhopping
Then please drop me a note:
More 👉 eightmoon.co.uk/chris-lee-fo...
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Did I mention I am available for football talks and lectures?
If you’re a university or club looking for a speaker to cover:
📣 Football and politics
🗣️ Football culture and national identity
🏟️ Groundhopping
Then please drop me a note:
More 👉 eightmoon.co.uk/chris-lee-fo...
If you’re a university or club looking for a speaker to cover:
📣 Football and politics
🗣️ Football culture and national identity
🏟️ Groundhopping
Then please drop me a note:
More 👉 eightmoon.co.uk/chris-lee-fo...
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DROPPING SUNDAY 🎙️
We hear some of the quirkier and forgotten stories from #LaLiga with Brendan Madden 🇪🇸
The book is top-notch, too...
Here's a taster...
We hear some of the quirkier and forgotten stories from #LaLiga with Brendan Madden 🇪🇸
The book is top-notch, too...
Here's a taster...
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
DROPPING SUNDAY 🎙️
We hear some of the quirkier and forgotten stories from #LaLiga with Brendan Madden 🇪🇸
The book is top-notch, too...
Here's a taster...
We hear some of the quirkier and forgotten stories from #LaLiga with Brendan Madden 🇪🇸
The book is top-notch, too...
Here's a taster...
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As it's Hallowe'en/Samhain, what spooky football stories have you got? 🎃
I hear Ibrox is haunted by a spectral black dog, and both Birmingham City and Sligo Rovers have been on the receiving end of curses
Any other tales of where football meets the supernatural?
I hear Ibrox is haunted by a spectral black dog, and both Birmingham City and Sligo Rovers have been on the receiving end of curses
Any other tales of where football meets the supernatural?
a woman is standing next to a skeleton wearing a mask
ALT: a woman is standing next to a skeleton wearing a mask
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October 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
As it's Hallowe'en/Samhain, what spooky football stories have you got? 🎃
I hear Ibrox is haunted by a spectral black dog, and both Birmingham City and Sligo Rovers have been on the receiving end of curses
Any other tales of where football meets the supernatural?
I hear Ibrox is haunted by a spectral black dog, and both Birmingham City and Sligo Rovers have been on the receiving end of curses
Any other tales of where football meets the supernatural?
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NEW POST 📣
Everton FC is one of England's and the world’s most historically significant football clubs.
I went on a Merseyside odyssey to discover the club’s past and its future.
Read on… #Everton #groundhopping
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
Everton FC is one of England's and the world’s most historically significant football clubs.
I went on a Merseyside odyssey to discover the club’s past and its future.
Read on… #Everton #groundhopping
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
Discovering Everton’s Roots: A Merseyside Odyssey
With Everton FC’s men’s team settling into the new Hill Dickinson Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock, Liverpool, let’s explore the club’s roots in the area.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
NEW POST 📣
Everton FC is one of England's and the world’s most historically significant football clubs.
I went on a Merseyside odyssey to discover the club’s past and its future.
Read on… #Everton #groundhopping
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
Everton FC is one of England's and the world’s most historically significant football clubs.
I went on a Merseyside odyssey to discover the club’s past and its future.
Read on… #Everton #groundhopping
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
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#OnThisDay 27 Oct 1892: the Leinster Football Association was founded in Dublin to represent the interests of clubs in the county and counter the dominance of the Belfast-based IFA
It played a key role in 'the Irish soccer split' (1921)
More in my new book www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/shades-...
It played a key role in 'the Irish soccer split' (1921)
More in my new book www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/shades-...
Shades of Green: A Journey into Irish Football
Join football writer Chris Lee on a journey of discovery around Ireland to learn about one of the world’s oldest soccer cultures. Along the way, Chris talks to fans, historians and academics. He uncov...
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
#OnThisDay 27 Oct 1892: the Leinster Football Association was founded in Dublin to represent the interests of clubs in the county and counter the dominance of the Belfast-based IFA
It played a key role in 'the Irish soccer split' (1921)
More in my new book www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/shades-...
It played a key role in 'the Irish soccer split' (1921)
More in my new book www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/shades-...
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#OnThisDay 26 Oct 1863 🏴
12 clubs from the London area met at the Freemasons' Tavern in Holborn to found the Football Association (FA) and agree on a consensus on the laws of the game
It was the genesis of the modern game
More in my book, Origin Stories
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/origin-...
12 clubs from the London area met at the Freemasons' Tavern in Holborn to found the Football Association (FA) and agree on a consensus on the laws of the game
It was the genesis of the modern game
More in my book, Origin Stories
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/origin-...
October 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
#OnThisDay 26 Oct 1863 🏴
12 clubs from the London area met at the Freemasons' Tavern in Holborn to found the Football Association (FA) and agree on a consensus on the laws of the game
It was the genesis of the modern game
More in my book, Origin Stories
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/origin-...
12 clubs from the London area met at the Freemasons' Tavern in Holborn to found the Football Association (FA) and agree on a consensus on the laws of the game
It was the genesis of the modern game
More in my book, Origin Stories
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/origin-...
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This week’s podcast is about the cultural significance of Liverpool FC with Alan McDougall.
Some shots from the excellent Anfield tour:
1) The stadium gates
2) The famous Anfield tunnel
3) Bust of founder, John Houlding
4) Mural to record goalscorer, Ian Rush
Download wherever you get your pods
Some shots from the excellent Anfield tour:
1) The stadium gates
2) The famous Anfield tunnel
3) Bust of founder, John Houlding
4) Mural to record goalscorer, Ian Rush
Download wherever you get your pods
October 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This week’s podcast is about the cultural significance of Liverpool FC with Alan McDougall.
Some shots from the excellent Anfield tour:
1) The stadium gates
2) The famous Anfield tunnel
3) Bust of founder, John Houlding
4) Mural to record goalscorer, Ian Rush
Download wherever you get your pods
Some shots from the excellent Anfield tour:
1) The stadium gates
2) The famous Anfield tunnel
3) Bust of founder, John Houlding
4) Mural to record goalscorer, Ian Rush
Download wherever you get your pods
Two vacancies have arisen on the editorial team of the Sport in History journal, and the Trustees of the BSSH are looking to make appointments that will begin in January 2026. See below for application details
www.sportinhistory.org/articles/edi...
www.sportinhistory.org/articles/edi...
Editor Vacancies at Sport in History
Welcome to the British Society of Sports History website. Our purpose is to promote the study of the history of sport.
www.sportinhistory.org
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Two vacancies have arisen on the editorial team of the Sport in History journal, and the Trustees of the BSSH are looking to make appointments that will begin in January 2026. See below for application details
www.sportinhistory.org/articles/edi...
www.sportinhistory.org/articles/edi...
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Lovely to visit Notts County today to hear about their sports history plans. A lot of exciting plans and some potential collaboration. It was also great to see some of Meadow Lane on a short tour.
October 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Lovely to visit Notts County today to hear about their sports history plans. A lot of exciting plans and some potential collaboration. It was also great to see some of Meadow Lane on a short tour.
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NEW POST 🗞️
Last weekend, I visited my 60th ground in England, Folkestone Invicta’s Alcaline Stadium.
Here are my tips for groundhoppers, and huge thanks to @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social for the lowdown on the club and the town.
Read on… #nonleague #FIFC
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
Last weekend, I visited my 60th ground in England, Folkestone Invicta’s Alcaline Stadium.
Here are my tips for groundhoppers, and huge thanks to @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social for the lowdown on the club and the town.
Read on… #nonleague #FIFC
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
Non-League Adventures: Folkestone Invicta
Folkestone is perhaps best known for the Eurotunnel, and, on a clear day, you can see France while seagulls swoop on your chips. It’s also home to a great non-league away day: Folkestone Invicta.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
NEW POST 🗞️
Last weekend, I visited my 60th ground in England, Folkestone Invicta’s Alcaline Stadium.
Here are my tips for groundhoppers, and huge thanks to @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social for the lowdown on the club and the town.
Read on… #nonleague #FIFC
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
Last weekend, I visited my 60th ground in England, Folkestone Invicta’s Alcaline Stadium.
Here are my tips for groundhoppers, and huge thanks to @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social for the lowdown on the club and the town.
Read on… #nonleague #FIFC
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
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Much love for Brighton
October 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Much love for Brighton
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#OnThisDay 22 Oct 1975
Lazio were meant to play Barça in the UEFA Cup, but the Rome side pulled out in protest over the execution of five Basques by the Franco state
From my book, The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism 📘
Lazio were meant to play Barça in the UEFA Cup, but the Rome side pulled out in protest over the execution of five Basques by the Franco state
From my book, The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism 📘
October 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
#OnThisDay 22 Oct 1975
Lazio were meant to play Barça in the UEFA Cup, but the Rome side pulled out in protest over the execution of five Basques by the Franco state
From my book, The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism 📘
Lazio were meant to play Barça in the UEFA Cup, but the Rome side pulled out in protest over the execution of five Basques by the Franco state
From my book, The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism 📘
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I finally got round to buying @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social’s book
Will devour ahead of my trip to Barcelona in the new year…
Will devour ahead of my trip to Barcelona in the new year…
October 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I finally got round to buying @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social’s book
Will devour ahead of my trip to Barcelona in the new year…
Will devour ahead of my trip to Barcelona in the new year…