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Early Football and the Emergence of Modern Soccer, c.1840-1880
(Taylor and Francis, 2015-06)
The origins of the modern football codes have attracted considerable attention from historians of sport over the past two decades, resulting in a vigorous debate between the self-described ‘revisionists’, led by Adrian ...
Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body – Introduction
(Routledge, 2015-07-27)
This is an introductory essay for the editied collection entitled ‘Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body’. As well as giving an overview of the six articles in the collection, the introduction seeks to give an overview of sport ...
From Sportswear to Leisurewear: The Evolution of English Football League Shirt Design in the Replica Kit Era.
(Routledge, 2015-07-27)
The football shirt is of iconic significance, defining a club's visual identity through its role as sporting uniform and fan identifier, providing a canvas for commercial interactions and increasingly acting as the focus ...
Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body
(Routledge, 2015-07-27)
Sport has had such a profound influence upon the clothing, footwear and accessory industries that the sartorial choices of every reader of Sport in History will inevitably have been affected. This certainty is not based ...
Given the Boot: Reading the Ambiguities of British and Continental Football Boot Design
(Taylor and Francis, 2015-03-01)
The robust design of the mass-produced British football boot from the late nineteenth century onwards appeared to evolve rather slowly compared with subsequent lightweight, flexible ‘continental’ fabrication. However, with ...
The People’s Game and the People’s War: Football, Nation and Class in Britain, 1939-1945
(2015-12)
The image of World War Two as a
‘people’s war,’ during which a new sense of British national identity was forged,
has initiated considerable scholarly inquiry in recent years. Some have argued
for a remaking of Britishness ...
From Sportswear to Leisurewear: The Evolution of English Football League Shirt Design in the Replica Kit Era
(Taylor and Francis, 2015-03-01)
The football shirt is of iconic significance, defining a club's visual identity through its role as sporting uniform and fan identifier, providing a canvas for commercial interactions and increasingly acting as the focus ...