Kicking Around International Sport: West Germany's Return to the International Community Through Football In 1948, the American Military Government worked with Swiss soccer officials to organise Germany's first post-war international matches, three simultaneous German–Swiss intercity games. The America...

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

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Sport at War: Nithard’s Strasbourg Cavalry Games of 842 The Strasbourg cavalry games of 842 were played after the more famous Strasbourg Oaths by the combined armies of King Charles the Bald (d.877) and King Louis the German (d.876). This episode shows ...

Sport at War: Nithard’s Strasbourg Cavalry Games of 842
Christopher P. Flynn IJHS vol43:1 p24-38

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Play Days and the Elastic Languages of Reform: Gender, Race, and Class in Interwar America Promoted under the elastic slogan ‘every girl in a game and a game for every girl’, Play Days were celebrated as ‘democratic’ programmes. Organized by colleges, YWCA branches, settlement houses, mu...

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

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Really glad to have @barnethartston.bsky.social new article in @ijhs.bsky.social
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Homing Pigeon Sport, Militarism, and Bürgerlich Masculinity in Imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary Pigeon sport changed dramatically in Central Europe between 1870 and 1914 due to the rapid development of networks of poultry-breeding clubs, the expansion of homing pigeon use by European military...

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 Promoted under the elastic slogan ‘every girl in a game and a game for every girl’, Play Days were celebrated as ‘democratic’ programmes. Organized by colleges, YWCA branches, settlement houses, mu...

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

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The International Journal of the History of Sport Volume 43, Issue 1 of The International Journal of the History of Sport

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Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Are you studying, researching or teaching a history topic and not sure where to start? Try a search using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

‘Here to Just Play’: Investigating the Violent Protests That Occurred in Melbourne During South Africa’s Netball Tour of Australia in 1970 In 1970 the Victorian women’s netball team was caught up in the growing political storm of the anti-apartheid movement when, as part of a tour of Australia, the all-white South African netball team...

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.
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‘What Is a Woman Doing in a Man’s Game!’: Rose Wandera, Football, and the Reimagining of Gender in Postcolonial Kenya Rose Asiko Wandera began training to become a professional football referee in the 1970s in Eldoret, Kenya. By 1982, she had obtained the highest-class referees’ license in the country and was bein...

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

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Introduction: The History of Sport in the Balkans from the Sokol Movement to Physical Culture
Marko Begović, @IJHSofficial Vol 42:9, Pages: 933-936

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The Balkan Athletics Championships: The Beginnings of inter-Balkan Sports Diplomacy, 1928–1934? The Balkan Athletics Championships, organized by the Interbalkanic Sport Committee (ISC), carry an undeniable geopolitical and diplomatic significance. The ISC proposed to bring together the former...

The Balkan Athletics Championships: The Beginnings of inter-Balkan Sports Diplomacy, 1928–1934?
Cyril Polycarpe & Pascal Charitas, @IJHSofficial Vol 42:9
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The Best Professionals in Army and Miliţia Were the Football Players: Shamateurism in Romanian Football during the ‘Golden Epoch’ This article investigates the historical changes in players’ status in Romanian football, identifying the milestones in the professionalization process. Although, the analysis starts from the inter...

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

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Chasing the Himalayan Train: Yugoslav Ascents of Eight-Thousanders (1975–1995) In 1960, when Yugoslavian exploration of the Himalayas began, Aleš Kunaver – the leading visionary of Yugoslav Himalayanism – famously wrote: “If you want to catch a moving train, you have to outru...

Chasing the Himalayan Train: Yugoslav Ascents of Eight-Thousanders (1975–1995), Peter Mikša, @IJHSofficial Vol 42:9, Pages: 956-975

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Intellectualizing Physical Culture: Debates on Competitive Sports and Gymnastics in the Interwar Yugoslav Sokol Association In this article, the conceptual debates about the difference between competitive sports and gymnastics within the interwar Yugoslav Sokol association, are examined. A particular focus is put on the...

Intellectualizing Physical Culture: Debates on Competitive Sports and Gymnastics in the Interwar Yugoslav Sokol Association, Lucija Balikić, @IJHSofficial Vol 42:9 Pages: 937-955

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Introduction: The History of Sport in the Balkans from the Sokol Movement to Physical Culture Published in The International Journal of the History of Sport (Vol. 42, No. 9, 2025)

Introduction: The History of Sport in the Balkans from the Sokol Movement to Physical Culture
Marko Begović, @IJHSofficial Vol 42:9, Pages: 933-936

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The International Journal of the History of Sport SPECIAL ISSUE: THE HISTORY OF SPORT IN THE BALKANS. Volume 42, Issue 9 of The International Journal of the History of Sport

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Asia Pride Games (The Straits Games): Past, Present, and Future Over the past few decades, ‘LGBT+’, ‘gay’, or ‘queer’ sports scenes have proliferated across the world. In Asia, the first multi-sport regional LGBT+ sports event was organized in 2002 in Malaysia,...

Asia Pride Games (The Straits Games): Past, Present, and Future, Max D. López Toledano, @IJHSofficial Vol 42:8, Pages: 912-931

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Who Makes Good Sports Shows?: The First Velodrome Managers in France at the End of the Nineteenth Century In France during the 1880s, the emergence of sports shows resulted from the interplay between codified sporting rules and spectacular presentation. Organizers quickly achieved significant success, ...

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

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Sex Testing in Volleyball Whereas anxieties about the appearances of some competitors led to the enactment of sex control in other sports, volleyball initially avoided such scrutiny. However, organisers introduced verificat...

Sex Testing in Volleyball, Lindsay Parks Pieper, @IJHSofficial Vol42:8 Pages 876-895

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Gymnastics in Nineteenth-Century South Africa A history of nineteenth-century gymnastics, a minor pastime compared to rugby and cricket, in South Africa at a time when it consisted of two colonies and two independent Boer republics is presente...

Gymnastics in Nineteenth-Century South Africa
Francois Johannes Cleophas, @IJHSofficial Vol42:8
Pages: 858-875

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Politics, the Media, and the Richard Riot: A Reappraisal In March 1955, Montreal sports fans rioted in response to the decision of the President of the National Hockey League, Clarence Campbell, to suspend the star player of the Montreal Canadiens, Mauri...

Politics, the Media, and the Richard Riot: A Reappraisal
Mark Brewin, @IJHSofficial Vol42:8 Pages: 836-857

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The International Journal of the History of Sport Volume 42, Issue 8 of The International Journal of the History of Sport

Over the next week or so we will be looking at Vol 41:8

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‘We Have No Bamboo Curtain’: Sports Diplomacy and China’s Techniques of Reshaping Southeast Asian Perception in the Second Half of the 1950s In order to pierce the myth of the ‘bamboo curtain’, thousands of foreign delegations were invited to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) after the mid-1950s, which was officially called ‘people’s...

‘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

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Debates on Naturalized Athletes in Turkish Politics, 1986–2022: A Part of National Pride or Discontent? As sports are used as a tool by states to rebuild and support their national identities, many countries invest more heavily to obtain stronger positions in the international sports arena. However, ...

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

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‘Player as a Job’, Beyond Elitism: A Critical Look at the History of Professional Athlete Development in South Korea For years, South Korean sport has been driven by a state-led, elite-focused approach that prioritises national prestige. However, recent demographic shifts and changing public sentiment towards the...

‘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
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