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Sport and Leisure History

Convenors: Dr Dilwyn Porter (De Montfort University), Dion Georgiou (Queen Mary), Dr Peter Catterall (Queen Mary), Dr Mark Clapson (Westminster)

Venue: Bloomsbury Room (G35), Senate House, ground floor

Time: Monday, 5:15pm

Anyone interested in giving a paper at the seminar, or who would like to be added to our mailing list, should contact our seminar secretary Dion Georgiou at sportshistory@hotmail.co.uk.

Spring Term 2012
9 January

 Dr Emma Peplow (University of Glamorgan/Marylebone Cricket Club)


Taking the Field: Telling the Stories of Grassroots Cricket
23 January

Adriana Massidda (University of Cambridge)


The 'La Salada' Fair (Buenos Aires) as a Place of Recreation and Construction of Identities
6 February

Dr David Day (Manchester Metropolitan University)


'A Man Cannot See His Own Faults': British Professional Trainers and the 1912 Olympics
20 February

Rafaelle Nicholson (Queen Mary, University of London)


Women's Cricket Magazine, 1930-1967: Making Cricket Possible, Enjoyable and Fruitful for All Women and Girls
5 March

Alex Rock (De Montfort University)


Khaki Fever at the Finsbury Park Rink Cinema: Gender, Sexuality and Modernity, 1913-19
19 March

Iain Wilton (Queen Mary, University of London)


Sport's Role in 1951's Festival of Britain

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