SPORT AND LEISURE HISTORY SEMINAR:
AUTUMN 2008/09 PROGRAMME

6 Oct: Martin Polley (Southampton): ‘In Pietri’s Footsteps: Reconstructing the 1908 Olympic Marathon Route’

20 Oct: Michael Heller (QMUL): ‘Sport, Clerical Workers and British Bureaucracies, 1880-1939’

3 Nov: Martin Atherton (Central Lancashire): ‘Choosing to be Deaf: Leisure, Sport and Identity in the British Deaf Community’

17 Nov: Garry Whannel (Bedfordshire): ‘Journalism and the Olympic Games’ [TBC]

1 Dec: Alan Sked (LSE): ‘The British Press and the Problem of Smoking, 1945-75’

15 Dec: Julie Anderson (Manchester): ‘Masculine Identity, Sport and St Dunstan’s’