SPORT AND LEISURE HISTORY SEMINAR:
SPRING 2009 PROGRAMME

12 Jan: Susan Barton (De Montfort): 'Healthy Living in the Alps, 1860-1914' [TBC]

26 Jan: Benjamin Heller (Oxford): ''I Was Much Pleased': Leisure, Taste and Society in London, 1760-1820'

9 Feb: Vanessa Heggie (Cambridge): 'Making the Athletic Body: A History of British Sports Medicine'

23 Feb: Nikos Papadogiannis (Cambridge): 'Tourism and Youth Politicisation in Greece in the Mid- and Late-1970s: The Case of Communist Youth Identity-Making'

9 Mar: Patrick Chaplin (Anglia Ruskin): ''They Are Temperamentally Unsuited to the Game': Women and Darts in the Interwar Years'

23 Mar: Robert Dewey (DePauw University): 'Fiji Islands, Empire and the Indigenous Embrace of Rugby Football'

The seminars will take place in the Ecclesiastical History Room of the Institute of Historical Research, at 17:15 on Mondays fortnightly. We are now looking for papers for the 2009/10 academic year. Contact sportshistory@hotmail.com