This week Historic England unveiled a new blue plaque in Plymouth to honour the ground breaking career of John 'Jack' Leslie, the first Black footballer to captain a Football League team. ICSHC Emeritus Prof. @historymartin.bsky.social attended in his role as a National Blue Plaques Panel Member.
May 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This week Historic England unveiled a new blue plaque in Plymouth to honour the ground breaking career of John 'Jack' Leslie, the first Black footballer to captain a Football League team. ICSHC Emeritus Prof. @historymartin.bsky.social attended in his role as a National Blue Plaques Panel Member.
Congratulations to @icshc.bsky.social Emeritus Professor Richard Holt on the official launch of 'Sport and the British - A Modern History' (second edition) at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London, @bssh.bsky.social. Pictures by ICSHC James Panter. #sportshistory
September 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Congratulations to @icshc.bsky.social Emeritus Professor Richard Holt on the official launch of 'Sport and the British - A Modern History' (second edition) at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London, @bssh.bsky.social. Pictures by ICSHC James Panter. #sportshistory
In addition to these great historians of sport, I’m thrilled that the International Centre for Sports History & Culture is now here! Follow the ICSHC at @icshc.bsky.social 🗃️
As promised, a starter pack of historians of sport, and/or folk whose historical research interlinks heavily with sport. Please feel free to let me know who else is here (& who else is arriving) that I need to add on. #skystorians
September 10, 2024 at 10:39 AM
In addition to these great historians of sport, I’m thrilled that the International Centre for Sports History & Culture is now here! Follow the ICSHC at @icshc.bsky.social 🗃️
The pioneering MA in Sports History & Culture @icshc.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk is 30 years old. The programme team would love to hear from alumni about their professional journey: forms.office.com/e/AiZqd6yzxz
#SportsHistory #ICSHC #DMU #learningforlife
#SportsHistory #ICSHC #DMU #learningforlife
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April 28, 2026 at 9:08 AM
The pioneering MA in Sports History & Culture @icshc.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk is 30 years old. The programme team would love to hear from alumni about their professional journey: forms.office.com/e/AiZqd6yzxz
#SportsHistory #ICSHC #DMU #learningforlife
#SportsHistory #ICSHC #DMU #learningforlife
Excellent sports history post-doctoral opportunities at @icshc.bsky.social @dmuhistory.bsky.social with @hdichter.bsky.social and colleagues - invitation for applications for @britishacademy.bsky.social funding #sportshistory #postdoc #britishacademy #icshc
We’re looking for recent PhDs from outside the UK / not UK citizens who are interested in working with @icshc.bsky.social for a #sporthistory postdoc application through the British Academy International Fellowship #skystorians 🗃️
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December 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Excellent sports history post-doctoral opportunities at @icshc.bsky.social @dmuhistory.bsky.social with @hdichter.bsky.social and colleagues - invitation for applications for @britishacademy.bsky.social funding #sportshistory #postdoc #britishacademy #icshc
Chris sat with Jean-Charles “Jason” Dervieux on multi-location SEO risk, brand naming, and the AI search shift hitting every brand. Friday SEO Tip podcast edition.
Read the full tip here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden-seo-risks-inside-multi-location-brands-friday-icshc/
Read the full tip here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden-seo-risks-inside-multi-location-brands-friday-icshc/
May 9, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Chris sat with Jean-Charles “Jason” Dervieux on multi-location SEO risk, brand naming, and the AI search shift hitting every brand. Friday SEO Tip podcast edition.
Read the full tip here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden-seo-risks-inside-multi-location-brands-friday-icshc/
Read the full tip here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden-seo-risks-inside-multi-location-brands-friday-icshc/
A big thank you to everyone at Leicester Tigers Rugby Club who made our @icshc.bsky.social FIFA Master Humanities of Sport module field visit possible yesterday. Good luck for the 2025/26 season! Pictures by ICSHC James Panter. #sportshistory #WhereAmbitionBegins #FIFAMaster
September 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
A big thank you to everyone at Leicester Tigers Rugby Club who made our @icshc.bsky.social FIFA Master Humanities of Sport module field visit possible yesterday. Good luck for the 2025/26 season! Pictures by ICSHC James Panter. #sportshistory #WhereAmbitionBegins #FIFAMaster
1/2 Described by The Athletic / New York Times as, “arguably the world’s greatest living soccer photographer“, it was a privilege to be at the @dmu.ac.uk Gallery on Friday evening for the launch of the new Peter Robinson photography exhibition – “Keep off the Grass”. Picture by ICSHC James Panter.
October 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
1/2 Described by The Athletic / New York Times as, “arguably the world’s greatest living soccer photographer“, it was a privilege to be at the @dmu.ac.uk Gallery on Friday evening for the launch of the new Peter Robinson photography exhibition – “Keep off the Grass”. Picture by ICSHC James Panter.
NEW "Inventing the Boston Game - Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth" by ICSHC Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, Dr Kevin Tallec Marston and FIFA Master guest lecturer Prof, Mike Cronin (Boston College, Dublin). www.umasspress.com/978162534843... @bostoncollege.bsky.social #history
January 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
NEW "Inventing the Boston Game - Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth" by ICSHC Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, Dr Kevin Tallec Marston and FIFA Master guest lecturer Prof, Mike Cronin (Boston College, Dublin). www.umasspress.com/978162534843... @bostoncollege.bsky.social #history
Interested in the history of sport? Considering postgraduate study? Want a distance-learning course that is flexible and offers full and part-time study routes? Our MA Sports History and Culture could be for you!
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January 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Thank you to eleven times Premiership champions and two times European Cup winners Leicester Tigers Rugby Football Club for making our @icshc.bsky.social FIFA Master 25th edition class so welcome during our field visit last week. Pictures by ICSHC James Panter. #sportshistory #rugby
October 7, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Thank you to eleven times Premiership champions and two times European Cup winners Leicester Tigers Rugby Football Club for making our @icshc.bsky.social FIFA Master 25th edition class so welcome during our field visit last week. Pictures by ICSHC James Panter. #sportshistory #rugby
Fantastic to see a #sportshistory exhibition in the middle of the John Lewis Department store in Leicester for the former heavyweight boxing champion, Larry Gains! Regarded as one of the leading boxers of his era, he lived in Leicester from 1930 onwards. Pictures by ICSHC James Panter. #Boxing
October 8, 2024 at 8:45 AM
Fantastic to see a #sportshistory exhibition in the middle of the John Lewis Department store in Leicester for the former heavyweight boxing champion, Larry Gains! Regarded as one of the leading boxers of his era, he lived in Leicester from 1930 onwards. Pictures by ICSHC James Panter. #Boxing
Dr Roy Thomson (ICSHC PhD graduate), ‘The saddest day of my life: sadness and the forgotten team of 11 May 1985 - the emotional impact of the Bradford City Stadium fire on Lincoln City FC’.
August 25, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Dr Roy Thomson (ICSHC PhD graduate), ‘The saddest day of my life: sadness and the forgotten team of 11 May 1985 - the emotional impact of the Bradford City Stadium fire on Lincoln City FC’.
Always special to go behind the scenes at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon. Thank you for making the FIFA Master 26th edition class so welcome during our @icshc.bsky.social Humanities of Sport module field visit. Pictures by ICSHC James Panter. #sportshistory #WhereAmbitionBegins.
September 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Always special to go behind the scenes at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon. Thank you for making the FIFA Master 26th edition class so welcome during our @icshc.bsky.social Humanities of Sport module field visit. Pictures by ICSHC James Panter. #sportshistory #WhereAmbitionBegins.
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'Berlin Sports: Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany’s Metropolis’, Edited by ICSHC Associate Professor Dr Heather Dichter and Assoc. Professor Molly Wilkinson Johnson (University of Alabama in Huntsville). Further details at: www.uapress.com/product/berl... #sportshistory #Berlin
'Berlin Sports: Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany’s Metropolis’, Edited by ICSHC Associate Professor Dr Heather Dichter and Assoc. Professor Molly Wilkinson Johnson (University of Alabama in Huntsville). Further details at: www.uapress.com/product/berl... #sportshistory #Berlin
October 22, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Out Now!
'Berlin Sports: Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany’s Metropolis’, Edited by ICSHC Associate Professor Dr Heather Dichter and Assoc. Professor Molly Wilkinson Johnson (University of Alabama in Huntsville). Further details at: www.uapress.com/product/berl... #sportshistory #Berlin
'Berlin Sports: Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany’s Metropolis’, Edited by ICSHC Associate Professor Dr Heather Dichter and Assoc. Professor Molly Wilkinson Johnson (University of Alabama in Huntsville). Further details at: www.uapress.com/product/berl... #sportshistory #Berlin
It was fantastic to welcome our new FIFA Master 25th edition students to the De Montfort University campus yesterday for the start of their @icshc.bsky.social Humanities of Sport module induction sessions! Picture by ICSHC James Panter. #sportshistory #MadeFromMore #DMU
September 13, 2024 at 10:33 AM
It was fantastic to welcome our new FIFA Master 25th edition students to the De Montfort University campus yesterday for the start of their @icshc.bsky.social Humanities of Sport module induction sessions! Picture by ICSHC James Panter. #sportshistory #MadeFromMore #DMU
Thank you to Rugby School for making our FIFA Master 25th edition class so welcome last week. A key institution not only on the creation of the game of rugby, but also on the spread of football codes around the world and the revival of the modern Olympic Games. Pictures by ICSHC James Panter.
October 1, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Thank you to Rugby School for making our FIFA Master 25th edition class so welcome last week. A key institution not only on the creation of the game of rugby, but also on the spread of football codes around the world and the revival of the modern Olympic Games. Pictures by ICSHC James Panter.
'Boston is credited with having the U.S.'s first football club. But which football?
@ICSHC Honorary Visiting Research Fellows Prof. Mike Cronin (BC Ireland) and Dr. Kevin Tallec Marston speak to NPR about the history of the Oneida Football Club
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@ICSHC Honorary Visiting Research Fellows Prof. Mike Cronin (BC Ireland) and Dr. Kevin Tallec Marston speak to NPR about the history of the Oneida Football Club
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Boston is credited with having the U.S.'s first football club. But which football?
Boston is widely credited with having the first organized football club un the U.S. But exactly which form of football has been a matter of some debate.
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June 12, 2026 at 4:14 PM
'Boston is credited with having the U.S.'s first football club. But which football?
@ICSHC Honorary Visiting Research Fellows Prof. Mike Cronin (BC Ireland) and Dr. Kevin Tallec Marston speak to NPR about the history of the Oneida Football Club
www.npr.org/2026/06/10/n...
@ICSHC Honorary Visiting Research Fellows Prof. Mike Cronin (BC Ireland) and Dr. Kevin Tallec Marston speak to NPR about the history of the Oneida Football Club
www.npr.org/2026/06/10/n...
Pictured left to right: Emeritus Prof. Martin Polley, Emeritus Prof. Richard Holt, ICSHC Prof. Matt Taylor, Dr Heather Dichter, Emeritus Prof. Wray Vamplew, PhD student Mike Dougherty, Dr Mel Reid, MA Sports History and Culture student Miriam Fielding, PhD student Emmy Sale, Dr Roy Thomson. #BSSH
September 1, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Pictured left to right: Emeritus Prof. Martin Polley, Emeritus Prof. Richard Holt, ICSHC Prof. Matt Taylor, Dr Heather Dichter, Emeritus Prof. Wray Vamplew, PhD student Mike Dougherty, Dr Mel Reid, MA Sports History and Culture student Miriam Fielding, PhD student Emmy Sale, Dr Roy Thomson. #BSSH
Professor Matt Taylor (ICSHC Director), ‘Another kind of fighting: Jane Couch, Autobiography and women’s boxing’.
August 25, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Professor Matt Taylor (ICSHC Director), ‘Another kind of fighting: Jane Couch, Autobiography and women’s boxing’.
Dr Dave Pendleton (ICSHC PhD graduate), ‘Exile and Sport: The Hull Continental Handball League 1958 – 1963’.
August 25, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Dr Dave Pendleton (ICSHC PhD graduate), ‘Exile and Sport: The Hull Continental Handball League 1958 – 1963’.
Dr Barbara Horley (ICSHC PhD graduate), 'So, what can speedway teach us about gender in the interwar years and beyond?'
August 25, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Dr Barbara Horley (ICSHC PhD graduate), 'So, what can speedway teach us about gender in the interwar years and beyond?'
Mike Dougherty, (ICSHC PhD student), ‘A famous victory or haphazard incident? Scotland's Robert Forbes Combe and the reporting of the 1946 British Chess Championship'.
August 25, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Mike Dougherty, (ICSHC PhD student), ‘A famous victory or haphazard incident? Scotland's Robert Forbes Combe and the reporting of the 1946 British Chess Championship'.
Emmy Sale (ICSHC PhD student), ‘Why then appear on the hockey field in petticoats and other unsuitable clothing?": uniform rules on early women's hockey governance, 1895-1909’.
August 25, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Emmy Sale (ICSHC PhD student), ‘Why then appear on the hockey field in petticoats and other unsuitable clothing?": uniform rules on early women's hockey governance, 1895-1909’.