Dr. Heather Dichter
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Dr. Heather Dichter
@hdichter.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sport History & Sport Management
📚 Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games; Soccer Diplomacy; Diplomatic Games; Berlin Sports
🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧, or traveling somewhere
www.dmu.ac.uk/heatherdichter
Depending on what your students are working on, Gregory Ramshaw’s introductory textbook on sport heritage is great. He & a couple of other sxholars have some more detailed journal articles, but I think he has pulled a lot on the topic together in this book.
August 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Obligatory pre-flight meal 🦀🍟 #PHL
July 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Some local yet national history in Lancaster PA for this time of year #skystorians 🗃️
July 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Flew back to the US this week and the labeling of places & the distortion of the view is something. Kinda feels like Phoenix is on the Great Lakes which would be…interesting weatherwise.
June 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Does this taxi ad in London really convince people to visit New Jersey?
June 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Great presentation - & amazing timeline! - by @icshc.bsky.social PhD student @emmyailish.bsky.social on women’s field hockey clothing in conjunction with The Hockey Museum with THM curator Shane at @sportingheritage.bsky.social Sport & Fashion study day at DMU #SportAndFashion 🗃️ #sporthistory
June 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
My annual visit to @nfmofficial.bsky.social means seeing the new temporary exhibit! This time on football annuals. Love that they made a double a person sized one! 🗃️
March 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Have had a great week at our final @britishacademy.bsky.social International Writing Workshop on developing #sportshistory in Africa run by Tarminder Kaur, @malcomaxx.bsky.social @kschille.bsky.social (who took the 📸) & me. Looking forward to 2 special issues of @ijhs.bsky.social & Sport in History
January 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM
My review of Keith Rathbone’s excellent book on sport in Vichy France for the Journal of Contemporary History is online! #sporthistory #frenchhistory 🗃️

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... (🔐)

Here’s the book at
@manchesterup.bsky.social - manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526153289/
January 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The tour was great. Saw her both times she played in London.
December 16, 2024 at 11:00 PM
There is a bar in London called Passyunk. This is the sign to denote the women’s bathroom @icpetrie.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Will pretty pictures from Europe help?
November 24, 2024 at 7:55 AM
The Time Life book series on planes and ships that my dad read as bedtime stories (instead of Golden Books)… no surprise I ended up focusing on 20th c Europe
November 19, 2024 at 1:09 PM
If you see this, post a concert photo you took

(Tori Amos, London 2022)
November 10, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Also: enormous fruit! This pear is on my ipad for scale
November 10, 2024 at 7:54 PM
We have a Philly themed bar in London called Passyunk. It’s the best! Eagles super bowl win on loop on tv sometimes. And all the pro & college teams on the walls. The sign on the women’s bathroom is this:
November 8, 2024 at 11:47 PM
And what I hope is the final story in this saga. Thanks again to @russwalker.bsky.social & the other LNP journalists for covering this story & including me in it. Even got my name on the front page (even if it’s pretty much the last line)!

lancasteronline.com/news/politic...
November 8, 2024 at 5:25 PM
I enjoy this page on facebook but felt the need to share more widely this old ad - which is *SO* Philly and I love it. And of course now I want some tastykakes. #sporthistory #histsport 🗃️
November 8, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Berlin Sports has arrived! Get your copy from the University of Arkansas Press for only $29.95 #sporthistory 🗃️

www.uapress.com/product/berl...
October 22, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Always enjoy the tour of the London Olympic Park #sporthistory #legacy
October 21, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Hot off the press & just out this week - I edited a book with Molly Wilkinson Johnson called Berlin Sports - an edited collection with case studies on different sports ⚽️🎾🎽🏇 and more in Berlin from the late 1800s to the present 🗃️

www.uapress.com/product/berl...
October 19, 2024 at 5:50 AM
1976 Winter Olympics: Innsbruck has separate building for female athletes in Olympic Village. Org Comm said “We’re not prudes, but in view of the stressed of competition this is a correct decision.”

2000s: provide thousands of condoms for the athletes

My how times have changed! 🗃️ #sporthistory
October 15, 2024 at 9:27 AM
More newspaper fun:
“I don’t want the Olympics to be run by a bunch of old men.” —Lord Killanin, defending the International Olympic Committee’s mandatory returement age of 72. Killanin is 61.

The Ithaca Journal publishing the AP’s Quotes of the Week in 1976 #sporthistory 🗃️
September 30, 2024 at 8:13 PM
People complaining about Team USA’s opening ceremony uniforms is nothing new. Hello “shapeless stocking caps” from 1976 (Front page, Boston Globe) 🗃️
September 29, 2024 at 8:44 PM
I love the Utz crab chips, but have you had these? Sounds odd…. But actually really awesome
September 25, 2024 at 6:23 AM