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July's blog post is now up: ‘Popular “football music” of our time’, inspired by a chance discovery in the loft, the FIFA men's World Cup, and the sad news of Kevin Keegan's death #football #music #nostalgia #worldcup #thistime martinpolley.co.uk/2026/07/27/2...

Gridiron Invasion by @drkatietaylor.bsky.social @utpress.bsky.social. I was honoured to serve as 1st supervisor on Katie's @icshc.bsky.social PhD on women in American football on which the book is based - it's great to see her work reach a wider audience #sportshistory utpress.org/979889527097...

Gridiron InvasionWomen have long participated in the game of American football. From informal, secret games, to educators’ use of touch football for female students, to att...utpress.org

Historic England's listing of @stokecityfc.bsky.social & England footballer Frank Soo (1914-1991) to mark the unveiling of the Blue Plaque at his birthplace in Buxton, Derbyshire, UK last week. #blueplaques #commemoration #sportsherirtage #franksoo historicengland.org.uk/listing/nati...

Frank Soo | Historic EnglandFrank Soo (1914-1991), the first footballer of East Asian descent to play for the England men’s team.historicengland.org.uk

New #sportshistory book alert: Migrants, Minorities, and the History of British Boxing: Insiders, Outsiders, and Ringsiders by David Dee of @icshibas25.bsky.social @dmuhistory.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Historic England photo exhibition 'Football Grounds of England' now open at Swindon Central Library’s Courtyard Gallery until 24 July, using photos from 1880 to 2019 by architectural historian and sports heritage pioneer Simon Inglis @swindoncouncil.bsky.social stfcmuseum.org/football-gro...

FOOTBALL GROUNDS OF ENGLAND EXHIBITION | STFC MuseumPhotographs from the Historic England Archive’s ‘Football Grounds of England’ Collection will be on display at Swindon Central Library’s Courtyard Gallery, from 29 June to 24 July. Selected by footbal...stfcmuseum.org

New @bssh.bsky.social sports history podcast: Lisa Jenkel of @unibas.ch on 'The Discourse and Depiction regarding Jewish Athletes and Jewish Sports in the English Press, 1890-1945' #sportshistory #podcast www.sportinhistory.com/pages/bssh-p...

The Sport in History Podcast | British Society of Sports HistoryThe Sport in History Podcast helps publicise your research with the public and wider academic community.www.sportinhistory.com

New blog post: A Trace of Rustic Play, based on the Nine Mens' Morris board at St John the Baptist church, Inglesham - with a bit of Joseph Strutt and T S Eliot thrown in. #boardgames #sportshistory #gamehistory #churchhistory martinpolley.co.uk/2026/06/24/a...

Rob Tanner interviewed me for his piece in The Athletic on the Cotswold Olimpicks #costwoldolimpicks #robertdoversgames #shinkicking: World Shin-Kicking Championships: Broken legs and broken toes – ‘It’s not for the faint-hearted’ www.nytimes.com/athletic/732...

World Shin-Kicking Championships: Broken legs and broken toes – ‘It’s not for the faint-hearted’For over 400 years it is believed that people have gathered in a picturesque English town to watch an annual shin kicking competitionwww.nytimes.com

New blog post on the Boris Anrep mosaics at the @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social #sportshistory #sportingart #borisanrep #London #nationalgallery #mosaics martinpolley.co.uk/2026/05/28/i...

1/3 New from @melvillehouse.bsky.social - The History of the World in 12 Soccer Matches by Steffano Bizzotto. Essays on historic men's football matches where impacts were more significant than scores, from the 1914 Christmas Truce to France v Germany 2015 on the night of terror attacks in Paris.

@historyextra.bsky.social invited me into their Q&A section for the June issue of their magazine, posing me the question 'What's the origin of the Fosbury Flop?' Fine out more in the magazine, in the shops now #athleticshistory #fosburyflop #1968Olympics

1/2 New book of interest to sports historians: Chris Hunt's Escape from Holland (Mile Away). It tells the story of a weekend in May 1940 as a disparate group of English footballing migrants in the Netherlands, centred on ex-international Billy Marsden, try to get out ahead of the German invasion.

The 2026 annual conference of the @bssh.bsky.social will take place @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 27-28 Aug. I'm looking forward to catching up with this wonderful #sportshistory community, and to presenting on the Cotswold Olimpicks' lost century, 1851-1951. www.efdelegates.ed.ac.uk/Registration...

The pioneering MA in Sports History & Culture @icshc.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk is 30 years old. The programme team would love to hear from alumni about their professional journey: forms.office.com/e/AiZqd6yzxz #SportsHistory #ICSHC #DMU #learningforlife

I'm delighted to by included in the University of the West of England's World Book Night project. This year's theme is The Mountains Are Calling. The exhibition of pieces by 188 contributors is at Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, and runs until 31 July. #bookarts www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/wbn2026/