National Spirit and the 1900 Olympics
The Paris Olympics of 1900 celebrated not just sporting excellence, but France’s might.
Sport
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the English and Nazi German football teams met for the first time on British soil in 1935, the game was not the headline.
Shots Fired: Marjorie Foster and Women at War
After winning the biggest shooting prize in the Empire, Marjorie Foster joined the new pantheon of women making sporting headlines. On the eve of the Second World War, she had a new target in her sights: the War Office.
The Other Boat Race
In the 19th century, servants at Oxford and Cambridge held a biennial boat race that was easily the equal of the students’.
How Poland Found Itself in the Mountains
In the decades before the First World War, Polish mountaineering became a form of nationalism for a lowland people.
Flannelled Fools
A history of sport in England hits a six.
Hungary’s Golden Squad
Many of the ideas that shape football today were developed in the 1920s by a generation of Hungarian coaches.
The President's New Stadiums
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party has consolidated its power with relentless construction projects, pursued at the expense of Turkey’s cosmopolitan heritage. The country’s historic football stadiums are among the collateral.
Ranji's Special Guest
Roger Hudson explains why the great cricketer W.G. Grace embraced Indian headwear for a day.
British Sports History
Robert Colls rises to the challenge of arguing the case for sports history as a serious academic subject, digging deep into its beginnings in the 1960s and winning with a wealth of scholarly works and skilled rhetoric.