Sport and Leisure History
Archived podcasts from the IHR's Sport and Leisure History seminar series
19 Jun 2017
'The Bounce of the Century': When Wales Beat the All Blacks
Dr Huw Richards (London College of Communications)
22 May 2017
More than a Game? Mobutu, Sport and Zairian Identity, 1965-1974
Conor Heffernan (Trinity College Dublin)
20 Feb 2017
Experiences and Exploitation of Nostalgia amongst Football Fans
Dr Chris Stride, University of Sheffield
29 Feb 2016
Leisure and Female Mobilities in the Nineteenth Century
Dr Kathryn Walchester (Liverpool John Moores University), Dr Sheila Hanlon (Independent Scholar)
4 Jan 2016
For Fun, not the Future: Adolescent Romance Culture and Sexuality in the Long 1960s
Hannah Charnock (University of Exeter), Charlotte Clements (University of Kent/University College London)
14 Dec 2015
Fancy Repositories: The Arcades and Bazaars of London's West End in the Nineteenth Century
Professor Rohan McWilliams (Anglia Ruskin University)
30 Nov 2015
Rural Associational Culture and Leisure - Jeremy Burchardt
Dr Jeremy Burchardt (University of Reading)
16 Nov 2015
Working Class Men's Leisure in Post-War Britain
Richard Hall (University of Cambridge) Bleddyn Penny (University of Swansea)
19 Oct 2015
Cultural Events, National Identity and Retrospection
Claudia Lueders (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Sandra Tavares (Kings College London)
5 Oct 2015
The Oval World: Writing a Global History of Rugby
Professor Tony Collins (De Montfort University)
30 Jun 2015
'Where Were You When We Were Getting High?': Britpop Nostalgia and Technological, Social, Cultural and Generational Change in 21st Century Britain
Dion Georgiou (Queen Mary, University of London)
19 May 2015
Soviet Sport at the Fall of Communism
Manuel Veth (King's College London) and Dr Sevket Akyildiz (School of Oriental and African Studies)
9 Mar 2015
'I Saw My Name on the Board': Race, Gender and the Summer Olympics, 1932-1948
Dr Stanley Arnold (Northern Illinois University)
23 Feb 2015
Therapeutic Leisure in Victorian Britain
Charlotte Jones (University College London), Dr Jade Shephard (Queen Mary University of London)
3 Mar 2014
Risky or Relaxing? Leading Ladies through Pregnancy and Exercise in Britain, c. 1930-1970
Dr Eilidh Macrae (University of Abertay)
3 Jun 2013
Spectacular Bodies: The Swimsuit, Censorship and Hollywood
Ellen Wright (University of East Anglia)
11 Mar 2013
Labour and the Politics of Drink in Interwar Britain
Dr Peter Catterall (University of Westminster)
25 Feb 2013
Professional Bodybuilding and the Business of 'Extreme' Bodies: Exploring the Mr Olympia Competition in the Context of Las Vegas Leisure Industries
Dr Dimitris Liokaftos (Goldsmiths, University of London)
11 Feb 2013
'The People's Popular Emporium': A Short History of Gamages of Holborn, Cycling and Athletic Outfitters, 1878-1935
Dr Geraldine Biddle-Perry (Central St Martins College of Art and Design)
28 Jan 2013
Good Feeling and Brotherliness: Leisure, the Suburbs and the Society of Public Librarians in London, 1895-1930
Dr Michelle Johansen (Bishopsgate Institute)
14 Jan 2013
How the British Isles Became British: The Residential Class in Jersey, c. 1815-1850s
Robin Mills (University of Cambridge)