BRITISH SOCIETY OF SPORTS HISTORY Annual Conference St. Martin’s College, Lancaster September 2006

HPLT: Hugh Pollard Lecture Theatre

KSLT: Kay Shuttleworth Lecture Theatre

Friday, 1 September 2006

	Session 1 (HPLT)
2.00	The Power of Place – what we can learn from the study of historic sportscapes. Simon Inglis
2.30	The Gunners Final Salute – are Arsenal losing their marbles? Jason Wood	‘Transgressing the limits of decent partisanship’? Violence in Munster Rugby 1927-42. Liam O’Callaghan
3.00	Fascist Football Stadia and the Architecture of Power. Simon Martin	Seymour de Lotbiniere and the Formative Years of Modern Sports Commentary. Richard Haynes
3.30	Break
	Session 2a (HPLT)	Session 2b (KSLT)
4.00	WW I and the British Influence on French Sport: A case study on the Impact of British soldiers in the diffusion of football in the Somme and Pas-de-Calais between 1915 and 1921. Arnaud Waquet	It Wasn’t Just Emily Davison! Sport, Suffrage and Society in Edwardian Britain. Joyce Kay
4.30	Whose game is it, really? Scots and the spread of Association Football in Australia with special reference to the origins of the game there. W.J. Murray	‘Presumptuous Pinnacle Ladies’: changing the face of climbing practice during the 1920s. Carol A Osborne
5.00	‘Scotland’s secret shame’: sectarianism and xenophobia in Scottish Sport & Society. Ronnie Kowalski	Eli Simpson: visionary or despot? Mel Reid
5.30	Coffee
	Session 3a (HPLT)	Session 3b (KSLT)
6.00	Hercules vs. Apollo: Bodybuilding Ideology in the Early Twentieth Century. Jan Todd	From John Bickerdyke to Mr Crabtree: Class and the Message of Deference in Angling Literature. Tim Shakesheff
6.30	The Yearning for Muscular Power. Terence Todd	Class, Mass Production, Affluence and Nature: Angling in 20^th Century Britain. Richard Coopey
7.30	Dinner

Saturday, 2 September 2006

	Session 4: Hugh Pollard Lecture Theatre
9.30	The Sir Derek Birley Memorial Lecture Historians and the Muses: Does Clio Need Help? Allen Guttmann
	Session 4a (HPLT)	Session 4b (KSLT)
10.30	Sport and National Identity: The Isle of Man and the TT Races. Simon Vaukins	Sport and Railways. John Tolson
11.00	Break
	Session 5a: (HPLT)	Session 5b (KSLT)
11.30	Early Football: Some Thoughts On Its Origin And Development. Dave Terry	The Readability of Sports Narrative. Malcolm Henson
12.00	Football in Edinburgh from 1880. John Hutchinson	The Janus Face of Colonial Sport: Claiming a National(ist) Identity with an Imperial Practice. Malcolm MacLean
12.30	Searching for a new Webb Ellis? Some thoughts on the Historiography of Football. Tony Collins	Whose Burden, whose Benefit? International sport development assistance in colonial and post-colonial contexts. Aaron Beacom
1.00	Lunch
	Session 6a (HPLT)	Session 6b (KSLT)
2.00	The Way it was: An account of Football Violence in the 1980s. Tom Gibbons	Sport, Betting and the British 1918-1939: A Critical Reassessment. Mike Huggins
2.30	How level is the playing field?: The history of Equity policy in English Football. Jim Lusted	Mecca and the transformation of Bingo. Carolyn Downs
3.00	Discovering the hidden, not at home: the history of female football fandom. Stephanie Dunn	‘Shamateur’ salesmen, irregular outlets and sports goods retailing in inter-war Britain. Dilwyn Porter
3.30	Break
	Session 7a (HPLT)	Session 7b (KSLT)
4.00	The Cold War and American Sport Policy, 1956-1978: A Political History. Thomas M. Hunt	Baseball, National Identity, and Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan, 1895-1945. Chun-Min Chung
4.30	Bicycling and an Anglo-American Rivalry. Duncan R. Jamieson	Whose National Identity: Chinese or Taiwanese? Taking the “Taipei Armed Forces Stadium” (1591 – 1960) as an analysis site. Chin-fang Kuo
5.00	The Political Aspects of the Development of Polish Soccer in a Historical Perspective. Adam Fryc	Sport in Lebanon from 1920-2004. Nadim Nassif
5.45	BSSH AGM (HPLT)
	Break
7.30	Dinner:

Sunday, 3 September 2006

	Session 8a (HPLT)	Session 8b (KSLT)
9.30	Ireland’s Wisden: John Lawrence’s Handbook of Cricket in Ireland and the Irish Golden Age of Cricket, 1865-1885. Sean Reid	The F.A. Book for Boys. Dave Russell
10.00	South African Cricket and the Expansion of Empire, 1888-1910 Dean Allen	Whose Trophy is it Anyway? Laura Stedman
10.30	Tom Brown in Rhodesia: The influence of the Public Schools, Cricket and Rugby during 1890-1914. Jonty Winch	The Role of Ephemera in Creating a History of Sport. Mike McGuinness
11.00	Break
	Session 9 (HPLT)
11.30	Visual Representations of the Doping Crisis from the 1980s. Paul Dimeo
12.00	The Novel as Source in Sports History: Texts, Audiences and The Fight. Martin Johnes
12.30	Seeing and Believing: Some Thoughts on Sport, Film and ‘Mitchell and Kenyonism’. Jeff Hill
1.00	Lunch & Close