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Sport and Literature A Special Issue of Sport in History: Introduction

Hill, J.; Williams, Jean (Taylor and Francis, 2009-06)

This special issue of Sport in History presents the work of several academics who explore the literary representation of sport. The article discusses the methodology of using literature to study sport.

Olympism and Pastoralism in British Sporting Literature

Williams, Jean (Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015-07-30)

This chapter explores the pastoralism of early modern British sport, evident in the first printed texts in English. These processes accelerated from 1612 onwards, as versions of “Olimpick,” “Ho-Limpyc,” “Olympian,” and ...

Women, Sport and Culture: From The 1948 Olympic Games to Rome 1960

Williams, Jean (Routledge, 2014-07-01)

The chapter has two sections. The first looks at the expansion of the Olympic programme for women between 1948 and 1960 and the changing cultural values of Olympism during this time. The second section argues that Olympic ...

‘One time he could-‘a’ been, the champion of the world’: Bob Dylan's ‘Hurricane’ as protest song

Williams, Jean (Sport in Society Special Edition: Sport Music and Identities, 2013-07-04)

This article focuses on ‘Hurricane’, a song co-written by Bob Dylan (born 24 May 1941) and released in November 1975 on the Columbia Records label. The song details the imprisonment of an African-Amercian middleweight ...

Knitting and the Olympic Games: clothing, competition, culture and commerce

Polley, Martin (Taylor and Francis, 2015-05-01)

A critical survey of some of the ways in which knitting has inter-acted with the Olympic Games and its predecessors.

Medicine, Sport and the Body: A Historical Perspective

Carter, Neil (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012)

What role does sports medicine play in today's society? Is it solely about treating sports injuries? Should it only be concerned with elite sport? This book provides a history of the relationship between sport, medicine ...

Learning disability, sport and legacy. Executive Summary.

Barton, Susan; Carter, Neil; Holt, Richard; Williams, John (De Montfort University, 2011-06)

This report examines the holding of the Special Olympics Great Britain (SOGB) National Summer Games – for people with learning disabilities – in Leicester in July 2009. For the first time, the views of the organisers, the ...

This Sporting Life

Carter, Neil (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012)

Repairing the Athletic Body: Treatments, Practices and Ethics

Carter, Neil (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012)

Afterword

Polley, Martin (De Gruyter, 2018-02-01)

This 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.