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New on @playingpasts.bsky.social Part two of The ‘Wonderful Man Fish in his Monster Plate-Glass Aquarium’ - The Imitators by @natationist.bsky.social 👉 www.playingpasts.co.uk/articles/gen... #Swimming #SportHistory @bssh.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social #Coaching #WomenInSport

The IHR seminar series returns with Jackson Van Uden on 2nd November. See below for this, and other events in the series.. www.sportinhistory.com/articles/the...

New on @playingpasts.bsky.social today The ‘Wonderful Man Fish in his Monster Plate-Glass Aquarium’: Part One. The Beckwiths and Thomas Attwood by @natationist.bsky.social Read here 👉 www.playingpasts.co.uk/articles/gen... #SportHistory #Swimming @bssh.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social

We had a great day as always, next stop for @afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social is #AATP2026 See you there

It’s NationalSportingHeritage Day! 🏆⚽🎾 🏉 Explore our #sports collections thru our catalogue, read our blogs & online exhibitions, or visit our reader room to see for yourself. You can find it all on our website 👇 buff.ly/cXzYQ5i @dmuleicester @librarydmu #sportshistory #sportingheritage #NSHD2026

Ours latest episode is now live with author Chris Hunt speaking about his new book, ‘Escape from Holland’ The book features characters from the realms of sport & beyond as they find their way to safety against the 1940 Nazi invasion of Holland Listen here: www.sportinhistory.com/pages/bssh-p...

[READ] University of the Western Cape (UWC) Professor André Odendaal has received the 2026 Howard Milton Award for Cricket Scholarship, recognising five decades of contributions to cricket history and scholarship. Read more: www.uwc.ac.za/news-and-ann... #IAmUWC @bssh.bsky.social

A big thank you to everyone who attended UHI Institute for Northern Studies & Culture Perth and Kinross joint seminar at Perth Museum last night. INS PhD candidate Shanna Bryman's lecture titled 'Leading Ladies of the Viking Age' was very well attended

Patricia Gregory's Lord Aberdare Prize-winning 'Breaking the Grass Ceiling' was spotted in the National Football Museum's bookshop recently...

RAF Hornchurch Weekend @footballandwar.bsky.social @whuhistorian.bsky.social @sportingheritage.bsky.social @bssh.bsky.social @kelceyervick.bsky.social

As seen in the NFM Shop - one for @bssh.bsky.social

Dr. George Kioussis, of California State University, Northridge, has been unveiled as Sport in History's new Editor-in-Chief.… www.sportinhistory.com/articles/spo...

Shocked, happy, and very honoured to have won this year’s Sporting Inequities Prize for my paper on the “girlification” of women’s figure skating in the 1990s ⛸️📚

Join us for our latest episode from the @bssh.bsky.social conference last week as Matt Llewellyn & Toby Rider deliver their Lord Aberdare Keynote on South African apartheid sport, sporting boycotts and conservative politics’ involvement. Listen now ⬇️ www.sportinhistory.com/pages/bssh-p...

We’re pleased to announce that our latest issue (Volume 46, Issue 3) is now available to read online in its entirety, with physical copies arriving for @bssh.bsky.social member in due course. Sign up today for a BSSH membership to read today ⬇️ www.sportinhistory.com/pages/journa...

Tamsin Johnson and Sophie Noble have just been announced as the joint winners of the 2026 Sporting Inequities Prize www.sportinhistory.com/articles/202...

A few members of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social (Past and Present!) pictured at the British Society of Sports History @bssh.bsky.social 2026 Conference in Edinburgh last week. #sportshistory #BSSH

And that's it the BSSH conference for another year chair Katie Taylor makes her closing remarks

Panel 25 Stuart Gibbs on the life of Lily Flexmore

Panel 25 continues with Matthew Taylor presenting on Jane Couch

Panel 25 opens with Matthew Brown on Juan Jorquera

The BSSH fellows panel continues with Iain Adams on Miss Mon equestrian and party goer..

The BSSH fellows panel opens with Wray Vamplew on gladiatorial combat

Next on panel 19 Sophie Noble on girlification of women's figure skating

Panel 19 opens with Emmy Sale on uniform rules in early women's hockey..

Panel 18 concludes with Enda Murphy on 1950s Formula 1 car design..

Panel 18 continues with Qingjie Sun and Ross Walker on elite tennis in Scotland

Panel 18 opens with Libby Porter on how the Victorian view of women's anatomy affected their views on women's sports

Concluding panel 14 Rhona Taylor on swimming pools as reflected in art.

Panel 14 continues with Mike Dougherty on the reporting of the 1946 British chess championship

First sessions of day 2 panel 14, Andy Carter on Celtic keeper John Thomson

Congrats🎉 to @icshc.bsky.social PhD student Emmy Sale @emmyailish.bsky.social for winning the Richard Cox Postgraduate award at the @bssh.bsky.social conference! Her PhD is a Midlands4Cities Collaborative Doctoral Award in conjunction with The Hockey Museum 🏑 #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️

Day two opens with the Derek Birley Memorial lecture with Cassandra Phoenix on the embodiment of women's health

Andre Odendaal was announced as the Howard Milton award winner at last night's BSSH awards ceremony

James Bamford of Durham University wins the Undergraduate essay prize

Pat Gregory wins the Lord Aberdare prize for her women's football history Breaking the Glass Ceiling

Emmy Sale wins the Richard Cox Postgraduate award

Raf Nicholson wins the Sport in History best paper award

Concluding panel 10 Fiona Reid and Raf Nicholson on Scottish women's cricket heritage

Andre Odendaal continues with democracy and the new Cricket

Rakesh Ramamoorthy starts panel 10 on the 'little master'

Panel 9 concludes with Richard McBrearty presenting on class in Scottish Rugby

Panel 9 continues with Katharine Worth on the Scottish angle to formula 1..

Andy Mitchell kicks off panel 9 with a presentation on heading

Panel 9 Andy Mitchell kicks this panel on headers

Panel 5 questions

Rounding off panel 5 Stephen Baker on expanding the field of early football.

Next up on panel 5 Ariel Hessayon covering women and early ball games.

Panel 5 kicks off with Taylor Aucoin on early folk football

At this year’s @bssh.bsky.social conference in Edinburgh. Looking forward to a couple of days of thinking, talking and laughing - love this sports history community 😊 Highlights to follow below. #BSSH2026