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Item Open Access The 1908 Olympic Games: a case study in accidental and incidental legacies(Routledge, 2015) Polley, MartinA critical overview of the accidental and incidental legacies of the 1908 London Olympic Games, used here as a case study for the period before Legacy was an priority for sporting mega-events.Item Metadata only The 1908 Olympic Games: a case study in accidental and incidental legacies.(Routledge, 2015) Polley, MartinItem Metadata only The 1908 Olympics and the Entente Cordiale(BISP, 2013) Polley, MartinItem Embargo Afterword(De Gruyter, 2018-02-01) Polley, MartinThis is the Afterword to a collection of essays on sport and the Cold war. It summarises the chapters' key themes, relates the collection to existing literature on sport and politics, and looks forward to new research themes.Item Metadata only A brief history of the Commonwealth Games(BBC History Extra, 2022-08-07) Polley, MartinAn article commissioned by BBC History Extra to explore the historcal evolution of the Commonwealth Games.Item Embargo Christopher Chataway(Oxford University Press, 2018) Polley, MartinBiography of athlete and politician Christopher Chataway (1931-2014) for Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.Item Open Access Coubertin Oak Tree, Much Wenlock(Arete Verlag, 2023) Polley, MartinA brief history of the oak tree that Pierre de Coubertin planted in Much Wenlock. The chapter forms part of a book on a history of European sport in 100 objects.Item Metadata only Edward, Harry Francis Vincent(Oxford University Press, 2023-06) Polley, MartinBiography of Harry Edwards (1898-1973), the first black athlete to win a medal for Great Britain at the Olympic Games (Antwerp 1920).Item Embargo Ferris, Elizabeth Anne Esther(Oxford University Press, 2016-01) Polley, MartinItem Metadata only Finding My Way: Walking as Research in Sports History(University of Gothenburg, 2024) Polley, MartinIn 2006, I walked the route of the 1908 London Olympic Marathon as part of a research project on the city’s Olympic history. With this physical act of research and recovery, I aimed to make the route itself more well-known as a site in local history. The physical nature of the research was a new departure for me. In this personal, reflexive article, I revisit the project to explore my motivations, methods and the impact that the walk had on my practice as a sports historian.Item Open Access A fine solidarity in the life of the countryside: The Ashbees and Sport in the Cotswolds, 1902-1907(Taylor and Francis, 2021-09-01) Polley, MartinBetween 1902 and 1907, C.R. and Janet Ashbee ran the Guild of Handicraft from Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, a manufacturing and trade experiment underpinned by utopian ideas. They used sport in the life of the Guild and the wider town in various ways, including the construction of a public swimming pool, the promotion of sports days, and the compilation of sporting songs, while their writings – both public and private – on sport revealed underlying assumptions about a sporting culture that diverged from both the commercial and amateur models of sport that were predominant in Edwardian Britain. This model for sport, based on balance, solidarity, community bonds, and health, was evident in all of their interventions in sport. This article, based on the Ashbees’ published and unpublished writings, along with Guild and other archives and newspaper reports, explores this sporting culture.Item Metadata only Higgins, Alexander Gordon [Alex] (1949-2010)(Oxford University Press, 2014-09) Polley, MartinItem Metadata only History and Sport Studies: some methodological reflections on undergraduate teaching(Routledge, 2014) Polley, MartinA critical personal overview of the processes involved in teaching history on sports studies courses.Item Metadata only Inspire a Publication: books, journals and the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games(Routledge, 2014) Polley, MartinA critical survey of the Olympic and Paralympic literature that was inspired by the 2012 Games in London.Item Metadata only Introduction: The Empire and Commonwealth Games and the Challenge of History(Taylor & Francis, 2014) Polley, MartinThis is the introduction to a special issue of the journal Sport in Histiry, dedicated to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games. It provides a survey of the event's history and historiography, raises critical questions about the Games, and introduces the articles in the issue.Item Metadata only Knitting and the Olympic Games: clothing, competition, culture and commerce(Taylor and Francis, 2015-05-01) Polley, MartinA critical survey of some of the ways in which knitting has inter-acted with the Olympic Games and its predecessors.Item Metadata only Margaret Maughan(Oxford University Press, 2023-12) Polley, MartinBiography of Margaret Maughan (1928-2020), multiple medallist at the International Stoke Mandeville Games, the forerunners to the Paralympics. Biography of Paralympian archer and swimmer Margaret Maughan (1928-2020)Item Embargo Mick McManus(Oxford University Press, 2017) Polley, MartinA biography of the British wrestler Mick McManus (1921-2013) for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.Item Metadata only On Your Marks: selected writings about all kinds of sports(Macmillan, 2022-10-10) Polley, MartinThis anthology, part of the Macmillan Collector's Library series, brings together extracts about sport from novels, plays, poems, travel writing, and journalism written between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. Martin Polley edited the work, wrote the overall Introduction, and provided short introductions to each extract.Item Metadata only Sport, Gender and Sexuality at the 1908 London Olympic Games(Routledge, 2014-02-18) Polley, MartinA critical survey of issues relating to gender and sexuality at the 1908 London Olympic Games.