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🚨 #Recruitment @ijhs.bsky.social is recruiting a new Academic Editor - Europe ! This individual will join Keith Rathbone, the other Academic Editor - Europe, to support the large number of submissions in this area. Dead line : 20 october #skystorians #sporthistory 🗃️

tandfonline.comTriathlonomics: How and Why an Always Inclusive Mass Participation Sport Became Exclusive EconomicallyEconomic organization of participatory sports as an ‘industry’ is analyzed with regard to triathlon, where global governance is contested by non-profit and for-profit bodies. In Europe, this multis...

#skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory 📍New article! "Triathlonomics: How and Why an Always Inclusive Mass Participation Sport Became Exclusive Economically" by Andrey S. Adelfinsky Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comTransplanting the American Model: St. John’s University, Nanyang College, and the Localization of Modern Football in China (1890s–1920s)American missionaries and educators at St. John’s University (SJU) and Nanyang College (NYC) transplanted association football into China between the 1890s and 1920s, initiating the localization of...

#skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory 📍New article! "Transplanting the American Model: St. John’s University, Nanyang College, and the Localization of Modern Football in China (1890s–1920s)" by Xianguo Li and Zheng Cheng. Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comNo Advantage Given: The Incomplete History of U.S. Women’s Rugby, 1972–2026Published in The International Journal of the History of Sport (Ahead of Print, 2026)

#skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory 📍New book review! 📚"No Advantage Given:The Incomplete History of U.S. Women’s Rugby 1972–2026" by By United States Women’s Rugby Foundation, Stillwater River Publications, 2026 Book review by Katrina Cohen-Palacios, York University www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨Last chance to join us as a new academic editor - Europe ⬇️ #recruitment #history

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tandfonline.comThe Teaching of Aquatic Practices by the National Commission of Physical Education in Montevideo, 1914–1949The development of aquatic instruction on the beaches and in the pools of Montevideo, Uruguay, between 1914 and 1949 spans from the National Commission of Physical Education’s introduction of aquat...

#skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory 📍New article! "The Teaching of Aquatic Practices by the National Commission of Physical Education in Montevideo, 1914–1949" by Ana Torrón Preobrayensky🇺🇾 Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comBeyond National Heroines: Football, Representation, and Cold War East Asia – The Making of Taiwan’s Mulan Women’s Football TeamThe Mulan Women’s Football Team has long been remembered in Taiwan’s collective memory as ‘national heroines’. Existing scholarship has focused on women’s sport, national identity, and Cold War dip...

#skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory 📍New article! "Beyond National Heroines: Football, Representation, and Cold War East Asia – The Making of Taiwan’s Mulan Women’s Football Team" by Chinfang Kuo, Hsienwei Kuo Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory 📍New article! "From the Schoolyard to the Factory Floor: The Educational Continuum of Japanese Football, 1945–1992" by Dale Whitfield Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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A few days left to apply to join The International Journal of the History of Sport @ijhs.bsky.social Editor team! If you work on Europe & #sporthistory please consider applying. #skystorians 🗃️

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tandfonline.com‘Soccer Saved my Life’: A Social History of the Grahamstown Soccer Association, 1970–1985Founded by a railway policeman from Lesotho to draw young men away from faction fighting, the Grahamstown Soccer Association (GRASA) grew within fifteen years into an unusually dense node of politi...

#skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory 📍New article! "Soccer Saved my Life’: A Social History of the Grahamstown Soccer Association, 1970–1985" ⚽ by Shawn Forde, from Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 🇨🇦 Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comFootball and National Identity Through the Lens of the Uruguayan Interior Press: The 1930 World CupIn 1930, Montevideo hosted the first FIFA World Cup, coinciding with Uruguay’s centenary. While the event is often seen as pivotal in shaping Uruguayan national identity through football, most stud...

Check it out this article, part of the article collection from papers presented at the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES) Congress ⤵️ #skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory

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#skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory 📍New article! "Football and National Identity Through the Lens of the Uruguayan Interior Press: The 1930 World Cup" ⚽ 🇺🇾 by Evelise Amgarten Quitzau, Daniele Cristina Carqueijeiro de Medeiros Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory 📍New article! "From Shared Practises to Gendered Meanings: Girls’ Gymnastics and the Making of Femininity in Norwegian Schools, 1889–1925" by Paal Augestad, University of South-Eastern Norway, Bø, 🇳🇴 Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comFrom Shared Practises to Gendered Meanings: Girls’ Gymnastics and the Making of Femininity in Norwegian Schools, 1889–1925Girls’ gymnastics developed in Norwegian schools between 1889 and 1925, with gender differentiation emerging within a school subject initially characterized by largely shared bodily practises. Chal...

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#skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory 📍New article! "Narrating the Awakening of Chinese Women: The Establishment and Dissemination of the Shanghai Women Chin Woo Athletic Association by Hsienwei Kuo, Chinfang Kuo Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comBefore the World Was Watching: Qatar and the 1981 FIFA World Youth ChampionshipMuch of the existing scholarship on sport in Qatar has been shaped by the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the broader issues around it. However, many of the earlier moments in Qatar’s sporting history that...

#skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory 📍New article! "Before the World Was Watching: Qatar and the 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship" by Wadha F. Al-Naemi and Thomas Ross Griffin Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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#skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory 📍New article! "From Autonomy to Aggrandizement: A Comparative History of Executive Power, Corruption, and Democratic Backsliding in International Sport Federations" by Anthony Nakhle from Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth 🇱🇧 Check it out: t.co/Isb0leGnUF

tandfonline.comQueering the Sporting Body: Discipline, Desire, and Queer Visibility in Polish CinemaThe sporting body in Polish cinema functions as a site where discipline and desire intersect, producing shifting configurations of visibility, affect, and meaning. Athletic embodiment is represente...

#skystorians #sporthistory 🗃️ 📍New article! "Queering the Sporting Body: Discipline, Desire, and Queer Visibility in Polish Cinema" by Jie Xiao, Department of Tourism Management, Guangzhou 🇨🇳 Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comThe Beginnings of Water Polo in the City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1900–1913)Water polo emerged in Brazil in the early decades of the twentieth century. However, due to the sport’s low symbolic capital in this country, few studies have sought to analyze the sport from a his...

#skystorians #sporthistory 📍New article! "The Beginnings of Water Polo in the City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1900–1913)" 🤽‍♀️🤽 🇧🇷 by Caio Serpa, Renato Novaes, Silvio Telles, from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📍 Skills we are looking for - Strong organizational skills - Strong commitment to ethical rigour - Someone with strong personal networks who is active in the community - Previous experience having published in, reviewed articles for, or served as Editorial Board members of the @ijhs.bsky.social

editorresources.taylorandfrancis.comAcademic Editor – Europe needed for The International Journal of the History of Sport – Editor ResourcesEditor Resources provides insights and information to support the editor’s role and build connections between journal editors and research communities.

🦾You will also be encouraged to submit your own work to the journal and to be involved in journal special issues and article collections. ❓You are interested? You have a question? Do not hesitate to contact @hdichter.bsky.social Apply here: editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

tandfonline.comInstitutionalization of Padel in Brazil: A Frontier PhenomenonSince 1987, Brazilians have incorporated padel into the country’s sporting landscape, and participation has increased markedly in recent years. Despite this growth, scholars have paid little attent...

#skystorians #sporthistory 🗃️ 📍New article! "Institutionalization of Padel in Brazil: A Frontier Phenomenon" 🎾 by David Sebastián Ibarrola, University of Buenos Aires Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Happy to share my latest paper in the @ijhs.bsky.social with my great friend Daniele Medeiros. 🗃️ #sporthistory #skystorians www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PUXTE...

tandfonline.comRepresentations of the Ancient Olympic Games in Polish Literature Before 1795Between the decline of the ancient Olympic Games and the revival of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, literature played the most fundamental role in preserving the Olympic heritage. Descriptions of...

#skystorians #sporthistory 🗃️ 📍New article! "Representations of the Ancient Olympic Games in Polish Literature Before 1795" by Arkadiusz Włodarczyk from the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw 🇵🇱 Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Dr. Heather Dichter

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Looking forward to a big weekend of Aussie Rules Football? Check out this introduction to a special issue on the sport and newly published articles in @ijhs.bsky.social #skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory #football

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👌 Perfect timing! 📍New editorial ! "Introduction: New Perspectives on the History of Australian Rules Football" by Dale Blair, Rob Hess Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #skystorians #sporthistory 🗃️

tandfonline.comIntroduction: New Perspectives on the History of Australian Rules FootballAustralian Rules football, more colloquially known as ‘Aussie Rules’, is a unique sport that was first codified in Melbourne in 1859. The game quickly spread to all colonies (later states and terri...

#skystorians #sporthistory 🗃️ 📍New article out! "Swimming, Masculinity and Cinema in Gilles Lellouche’s Le Grand Bain (2018)" by Thomas Bauer, Siyao Lin and Maxence P. Leconte Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comSwimming, Masculinity and Cinema in Gilles Lellouche’s Le Grand Bain (2018)Le Grand Bain, a feature film directed by Gilles Lellouche and released in 2008, was highly praised in the French press for its attempt to challenge traditional hegemonic masculinity. Its story fol...

tandfonline.comNegotiating Modern Womanhood: Missionary Physical Education and Women’s Sport in Early Twentieth-Century ChinaWomen’s physical education and sport in early twentieth-century China developed through missionary educational institutions and the YWCA. Moving beyond diffusionist interpretations that portray mis...

#skystorians #sporthistory 🗃️ 📍New article out! "Negotiating Modern Womanhood: Missionary Physical Education and Women’s Sport in Early Twentieth-Century China" by Huijie Zhang, Shu Wan and Fuhua Huang Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comThe Genesis of Fencing in Postwar Taiwan: Initial Promotion and Organizational Foundations (1968–1973)By illuminating the genesis of fencing between 1968 and 1973, the prevailing historiography of postwar Taiwanese sport is challenged. While official association commemorative albums and state-centr...

22 Sept

#skystorians #sporthistory 🗃️ 📍New article out! "The Genesis of Fencing in Postwar Taiwan: Initial Promotion and Organizational Foundations (1968–1973)" 🤺 by I-Jung Mu and Nikoletta Sipos-Onyestyák Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Dr. Heather Dichter

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16 Sept

Come join our amazing @ijhs.bsky.social Editor team! Looking for sport historians who work on Europe. Email me with any ❓about the role. Deadline October 20 #skystorians #sporthistory 🗃️

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#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 🚨 Recruitment - Academic Editor - 📍 Europe. The International Journal of the History of Sport is currently recruiting for an Academic Editor – Europe. Deadline: 20 October 2026 More information here: editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru....

tandfonline.comFootball as Sport Diplomacy: Ritualized Rivalry and Nation-Making in Peru and Chile (1927–1933)Before Peru and Chile met regularly through national teams, their football rivalry had already begun to take shape through clubs. Between 1927 and 1933, visits by Santiago Football Club, Colo Colo,...

21 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "Football as Sport Diplomacy: Ritualized Rivalry and Nation-Making in Peru and Chile (1927–1933)" by Alonso Pahuacho Portella from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comThe Bombachudo at the Crandon Institute in Montevideo: Between Body Control and Feminine Modernity (1906–1935)In the first half of the twentieth century, physical education for women in Uruguay underwent significant changes in line with their gradual incorporation into public life. Against this backdrop, t...

18 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "The Bombachudo at the Crandon Institute in Montevideo: Between Body Control and Feminine Modernity (1906–1935)" by Alberto Mallada Meseguer, Paola Dogliotti Moro and Paula Malan Moreira Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comFrom Stigma to Spectacle: The Sociocultural Transformation of DanceSport in South Korea, 1900s–2020sSocial dance in Korea evolved from a stigmatized and heavily regulated activity into the institutionalized form of DanceSport. This transformation was not a straightforward process of diffusion or ...

18 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "From Stigma to Spectacle: The Sociocultural Transformation of DanceSport in South Korea, 1900s–2020s" by Jae-woo Park, Guoyang Chen, Bongsoo Kang, Seungyup Lim Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "‘Let’s Meet Where the Continents Meet’: Turkish Sports Diplomacy During the Late 1980s and Early 1990s" by Edip Öncü from Karadeniz Technical University Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.com‘Let’s Meet Where the Continents Meet’: Turkish Sports Diplomacy During the Late 1980s and Early 1990sTürkiye’s use of sport diplomacy through engagement with the Olympic movement during the late Cold War offers a significant case for global histories of sports diplomacy. Focusing on the hosting of...

tandfonline.comBeyond the Court: Basketball, Colonial Modernity, and Women’s Bodily Agency at Sookmyung Girls’ High School in Colonial KoreaThe sociocultural significance of women’s competitive sports in colonial Korea is demonstrated through the basketball team at Sookmyung Girls’ High School. Introduced by American missionaries and t...

15 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "Beyond the Court: Basketball, Colonial Modernity, and Women’s Bodily Agency at Sookmyung Girls’ High School in Colonial Korea " by Karam Lee and Seong-guk Moon Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

14 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "Polish Sports Poetry: Kazimierz Wierzyński and His Followers (Historical and Contemporary Contexts)" by Michał Mazurkiewicz Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comWitnessing the Rise and Fall: The Development of Artistic Swimming Clubs in TaiwanWhile international success in Japan, China, and South Korea is rooted in centralized national organizational governance, Taiwan followed a distinctive trajectory defined by private associations an...

11 Sept

📍New article out! "Witnessing the Rise and Fall: The Development of Artistic Swimming Clubs in Taiwan" by Ping-Chao Lee, I-Chen Huang, Hung-Ju Chiu and Chien-Yu Lin Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comBasketball at the Wall: American Foreign Public Engagement in Berlin, 1951The Harlem Globetrotters’ August 22, 1951, appearance in West Berlin, three days after the Third World Festival of Youth and Students ended, illuminates how private sport entered early Cold War for...

11 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "Basketball at the Wall: American Foreign Public Engagement in Berlin, 1951" by Murat Toman, from Hitit University Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comThe Conservation of Caves Used by Speleologists. For an Environmental History of Nature SportsRather than focusing on the history of caving as a sport, the environmental history of caves used by speleologists in France from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century considers caves a...

11 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "The Conservation of Caves Used by Speleologists. For an Environmental History of Nature Sports" by Pierre-Olaf Schut, from Université Gustave Eiffel, Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comWindrush Cricket: Imperial Culture, Caribbean Migration, and the Remaking of Postwar EnglandPublished in The International Journal of the History of Sport (Ahead of Print, 2026)

9 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New book review! "Windrush Cricket: Imperial Culture, Caribbean Migration, and the Remaking of Postwar England" by Michael Collins, Oxford University Press, 2025 Book review by J. Bant from Radboud University Nijmegen Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comHosting the Cricket World Cup and Its Implications for Cricket and Politics in Zimbabwe: Will History Repeat Itself?Zimbabwe will co-host the Cricket World Cup in 2027 for a second time. The last time Zimbabwe hosted the tournament, it was overshadowed by political developments like the controversial fast track ...

9 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "Hosting the Cricket World Cup and Its Implications for Cricket and Politics in Zimbabwe: Will History Repeat Itself?" 🏏 by Tafadzwa Blessing Choto from Midlands State University, 🇿🇼 Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comIn the Name of National Glory: The Yangtze River and Yellow River Rafting Expeditions in China in the 1980sThe 1986 Yangtze River and 1987 Yellow River rafting expeditions demonstrate how a Western-origin sport was appropriated and transformed into a vehicle for sports nationalism during China’s reform ...

8 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "In the Name of National Glory: The Yangtze River and Yellow River Rafting Expeditions in China in the 1980s" by Zesheng Yang and Lionel Zehua Li Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comThe Zurkhāneh and Its Milieu: A Study of Traditional Athletics in IranPublished in The International Journal of the History of Sport (Ahead of Print, 2026)

7 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New book review! "The Zurkhāneh and Its Milieu: A Study of Traditional Athletics in Iran" by P. Rochard, Cambridge, Ilex Foundation/Harvard University Press, 2025. Book review by Davide Valeri, University of Padua. Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comThe Zurkhāneh and Its Milieu: A Study of Traditional Athletics in IranPublished in The International Journal of the History of Sport (Ahead of Print, 2026)

7 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "Pronouncing the Games a Success: IOC Presidential Closing Verdicts from Samaranch to Coventry, 1984–2026" by Zhichen Ling and Bingquan Luo Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

linkedin.comThe International Journal of the History of Sport | LinkedInThe International Journal of the History of Sport | 2 followers on LinkedIn. Now in its fourth decade, The International Journal of the History of Sport ( IJHS ) is the world’s leading sport history a...

7 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📣 The @ijhs.bsky.social is now on LinkedIn! This page will publish: 📚 Articles & book reviews 📢 Calls for abstracts and special issues Interact with our posts, and tag us when you share your work or content related to the journal. www.linkedin.com/company/the-...

4 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "The Empire Is Round: Egyptian-Hungarian Encounters Around the English Game, 1924–34" by Arpad von Klimo, The Catholic University of America, Washington Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

4 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New book review! "The Global Spread of Football From the 1860s to the 1880s" By Brandon Blakeslee Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comTactical Theory in Yugoslav Football, 1960–1993: Identity, Intellectualization, and InnovationIn the second half of the twentieth century, the Yugoslav football coaching school emerged as one of the most successful in Europe. Yugoslav coaches developed tactical theories concerned with three...

3 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "Tactical Theory in Yugoslav Football, 1960–1993: Identity, Intellectualization, and Innovation" by Lazar Šoć Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

2 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "Handicapping Literature in the United States, 1935–2010: A Search for Order in a Confusing World" by Glenn Moore, Cassandra Atherton from Deakin University Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1 Sept

#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "Sport in the Uranium Mines of Communist Czechoslovakia: Between Active Support for the Leisure Time Activities of Workers and Efforts ‘From Below’" by Oto Polouček, Anna Grůzová and Roman Doušek Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....