The History of Professional Chess in Britain, 1774-2000

About Adrian Harvey

Adrian Harvey obtained a BA majoring in History in Humanities at Hatfield Polytechnic an MA in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck College (London University England) and a DPhil in Modern History at Nuffield College (Oxford University England). He worked for London University's Birkbeck College and the Workers' Education Association teaching History and English. His main focus is on the history of recreation notably his PhD The Beginnings of a commercial sporting culture in Britain 1793-1815 (2004). A year later Football's first hundred years: the untold story (2005) completely rewrote the game's history. Thus far he has had 14 articles published on football and 16 on chess. The latter appearing in Caissa Chess Kassiber Kingpin and Sport in History. Some of these have been translated into German and Italian. Additionally he has work published on other topics such as the history of the Paralympics and was responsible for articles on nine people in The Oxford New Dictionary of National Biography (2004).