History of Sport

Both a symbol of the Mubarak governments power and a component in its construction of national identity, football served as fertile ground for Egyp...

Canadian sports were turned on their head during the years between the world wars. The middle-class amateur men's organizations which dominated Can...

Since before the turn of the twentieth century, baseball greats have captivated audiences both on the diamond and the stage. Gracing the world of m...

Before Pep Guardiola and before Jose Mourinho, there was Bela Guttmann: the first superstar football coach, and the man who paved the way for the c...

In 1892, Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley donated the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup later known as the Stanley Cup to crown the first Canadian hocke...

When Torontos Maple Leaf Gardens opened in 1931, manager Conn Smythe envisioned an arena that would project an aura of middle-class respectability....

Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this ch...

Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this ch...

The Isle of Man TT is arguably the most historic motorsport event on the planet. Its 37 ¾ mile Mountain Course is the worlds oldest racing circuit ...

Regarded by many of his contemporaries as the greatest baseball player of all time, John Peter Honus Wagner enjoyed a remarkable career with the...

The quarter century comprising the Original Six years of the National Hockey League is often fondly discussed by the sport's scholarly fans. How...

Now revised and updated to include reflections on the modern era of Red Sox baseball Commemorating the Boston Red Soxs unforgettable championship r...

The Summer of Total Football: The 1974 World Cup captures the mood of a memorable 24 days in the early 1970s as the balance of footballing power s...

In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European womens sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same t...

Beyond the booze and the bratwurst: what football really tells us about Germany Germany is one of the worlds great footballing powers. Four-time W...

'The definitive telling of the life of a West Indian hero' Sir Clive Lloyd  The brilliant all-rounder Frank Worrell had to wait until 1960 to becom...

Innovative study of the role of sports in modernity in Africa. Sports in Ethiopia was always more than a means of useful recreation. It was also a...

Jurgen Said to Me is a human-interest story centred around Liverpool FC's most successful and charismatic leader of recent times. It charts Jurgen ...