Tired and happy back home from the annual #BSSH2025 conference in #Belfast with great memories of fascinating lectures and good talks with other sports history specialists.
Image: the Leeds Mercury, September, 1920, 12.

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Earlier, I had the pleasure of chairing Steve Bolton’s keynote, “Doing Public History”. I shed a tear watching this wonderful film about his Granny, the footballer Lizzy Ashcroft. #BSSH2025

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The Bike Face or the Invention of the Safety Bicycle as a Catalyst for the Evolution of Female Independence.
What a title for a next article on #sportshistory!😉
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The first #tourofflanders was most likely organized to the occasion of the World's Fair of #Ghent on May 25, 1913.
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At the end of the #cyclocross season a #history of its emergence.
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CYCLING PASTS: a new blog about the history of early #cycling and cycling competitions (1860-1920) with articles in NL|EN.
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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..