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Bloomsbury Academic , 2020
Cycling is currently enjoying a boom in popularity. What are the reasons behind this phenomenon? ... more Cycling is currently enjoying a boom in popularity. What are the reasons behind this phenomenon? How have perceptions and the popularity of cycling shifted?
This book charts the historical development of cycling both as a leisure and sporting activity since the 19th century and explores the wider political and cultural context in which cycling in Britain emerged. In particular, it examines cycling's relationship with environmental politics and its place in popular culture. Neil Carter successfully traverses several historical sub-disciplines, including the history of transport, leisure, sport, medicine and politics, employing the analytical tools of class, gender, political culture, the role of the state and commercialism to demonstrate how British identity has shaped and been shaped by cycling.
At a time when it has become part of debates over transport and health, Cycling and the British: A Modern History provides a timely and clear analysis of the changes and continuities in attitudes towards cycling.
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What role does sports medicine play in today's society? Is it solely about treating sports injuri... more What role does sports medicine play in today's society? Is it solely about treating sports injuries? Should it only be concerned with elite sport?
This book provides a history of the relationship between sport, medicine and health from the mid-19th century to today. It combines the sub-disciplines of the history of medicine and the history of sport to give a balanced analysis of the role of medicine in sport and how this has evolved over the past two centuries.
In an age where sports medicine plays an increasingly prominent role in both elite and recreational sport, this book provides a timely and clear analysis of its rise and purpose.
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Football managers are at the centre of today's commercially-driven football world, scrutinized, c... more Football managers are at the centre of today's commercially-driven football world, scrutinized, celebrated and under pressure as never before. This book is the first in-depth history of the role of the manager in British football, tracing a path from Victorian-era amateurism to the highly paid motivational specialists and media personalities of the twenty-first century. Using original source materials, the book traces the changing character and function of the football manager, covering: *the origins of football management - club secretaries and early pioneers *the impact of post-war social change - the advent of the football business *television and the new commercialism *contemporary football - specialization and the influence of foreign managers and management practices *the future of football management. The Football Manager examines the influence of Britain's traditionally pragmatic and hierarchical business management culture on British football, and in doing so provides a new and broader perspective on a unique management role and a unique way of life. For those interested in the history of football and for those interested in management more generally, this book is a valuable new resource.
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Coaches are amongst the most visible figures in sport today but little is known about the history... more Coaches are amongst the most visible figures in sport today but little is known about the history of their profession.
This book examines the history of coaching from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century. It uses a number of sports as case studies that includes: cricket, swimming, rugby union, athletics, football and tennis. The focus is largely English but international examples are used to illuminate the British context.
A number of themes are explored. Initially, in the 1800s, the coach was like an artisan who learned his skills on the job and coaching was similar to a craft. Early coaches were professionals but from the late nineteenth century an amateur elite governed British sport, who inhibited and in some sports banned coaching. As the twentieth century progressed, though, different sports at different stages began to embrace coaching as international competition intensified. In addition, the nature of coaching changed as a more scientific and managerial approach was applied. Finally, in football, the export of early British coaches is examined in light of the migration of international athletes and also as a process of ‘knowledge transfer’.
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Sport in History, 2020
This article charts the growth of the sport of women’s cycling in Britain during the inter-war ye... more This article charts the growth of the sport of women’s cycling in Britain during the inter-war years. It does so with reference to contemporary media sources and specifically the popular periodical Cycling. It examines this development in the context of how emerging ideals about the new modern women jostled with traditional notions of femininity in interwar Britain. Women’s cycling both challenged and complemented ideas of femininity, although how much and how many women engaged in these debates is unclear. While there is a growing historiography on cycling in the Victorian period, the interwar period has been largely under-researched by historians. This article will begin to fill this gap. In addition to the development of sporting bodies and clubs, it highlights the career of Marguerite Wilson. Wilson was the first full-time female professional cyclist who rode for bicycle companies to advertise their products through her pursuit of records such as Land’s End to John O’Groats. Wilson herself embodied the rise of a competitive female body who through her record-breaking exploits contributed towards a narrowing of gender differences.
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North East Labour History , 2014
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History and Policy http://www.historyandpolicy.org , Jul 14, 2014
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Gesnerus Vol. 70 (2013) · N° 1, 2013
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British Journal of Learning Disabilities , May 2013
In 2009 the city of Leicester hosted the Special Olympics Great Britain National Summer Games. Ar... more In 2009 the city of Leicester hosted the Special Olympics Great Britain National Summer Games. Around 2500 athletes with learning disabilities competed in 21 sports. This article argues that this sporting mega-event had important potential legacy consequences for the hosts, the governing body – Special Olympics Great Britain (SOGB) – and also for wider attitudes towards people with learning disabilities. We are mainly concerned here with questions of ethnicity around Special Olympics Great Britain (SOGB) and the specific motivations for staging this event in the East Midlands. We argue that the hosts mobilised a set of quite unusual rhetorics and legacy aims in its appeal to local citizens, and that SOGB favoured Leicester because of the organisation's urgent need to modernise in terms of its urban reach, ethnicity and age profiles. We end by briefly assessing the evidence that SOGB achieved some of its goals and the extent to which the Leicester public embraced Special Olympics and athletes with learning disabilities.
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Media, Culture and Society, 34 (2), pp. 211-227, 2012
"In July 2009, the Special Olympics Great Britain National Summer Games for athletes with learnin... more "In July 2009, the Special Olympics Great Britain National Summer Games for athletes with learning disabilities were held in Leicester. Uniquely the Games achieved considerable television news coverage. This article offers a preliminary analysis of television representations of the Games. National TV coverage of the Paralympics is now established, but Special Olympics – and sport for people with learning disabilities in general – receives little media or research attention. This is partly because Special Olympics remains located outside mainstream national sporting networks and its ethos stresses the importance of participation over sporting excellence. The 2009 Games’ television coverage projected complex and ‘mixed’ messages reflected in the language, tone and images typically employed by broadcasters. We identify three key themes: first, the problematically relentless ‘positive’ tone of the coverage, which echoes wider public discourses concerning learning disability; second, the media emphasis on ‘human interest’ narratives and so, via these, the invidualizing of learning disability questions and the general absence of any wider discussion of political or social agendas linking sport and disability; finally, how television in its occasional focus on the families of athletes with learning disabilities articulated values and tensions which characterize the unusually conflicted status of the Games.
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This book charts the historical development of cycling both as a leisure and sporting activity since the 19th century and explores the wider political and cultural context in which cycling in Britain emerged. In particular, it examines cycling's relationship with environmental politics and its place in popular culture. Neil Carter successfully traverses several historical sub-disciplines, including the history of transport, leisure, sport, medicine and politics, employing the analytical tools of class, gender, political culture, the role of the state and commercialism to demonstrate how British identity has shaped and been shaped by cycling.
At a time when it has become part of debates over transport and health, Cycling and the British: A Modern History provides a timely and clear analysis of the changes and continuities in attitudes towards cycling.
This book provides a history of the relationship between sport, medicine and health from the mid-19th century to today. It combines the sub-disciplines of the history of medicine and the history of sport to give a balanced analysis of the role of medicine in sport and how this has evolved over the past two centuries.
In an age where sports medicine plays an increasingly prominent role in both elite and recreational sport, this book provides a timely and clear analysis of its rise and purpose.
This book examines the history of coaching from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century. It uses a number of sports as case studies that includes: cricket, swimming, rugby union, athletics, football and tennis. The focus is largely English but international examples are used to illuminate the British context.
A number of themes are explored. Initially, in the 1800s, the coach was like an artisan who learned his skills on the job and coaching was similar to a craft. Early coaches were professionals but from the late nineteenth century an amateur elite governed British sport, who inhibited and in some sports banned coaching. As the twentieth century progressed, though, different sports at different stages began to embrace coaching as international competition intensified. In addition, the nature of coaching changed as a more scientific and managerial approach was applied. Finally, in football, the export of early British coaches is examined in light of the migration of international athletes and also as a process of ‘knowledge transfer’.
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This book charts the historical development of cycling both as a leisure and sporting activity since the 19th century and explores the wider political and cultural context in which cycling in Britain emerged. In particular, it examines cycling's relationship with environmental politics and its place in popular culture. Neil Carter successfully traverses several historical sub-disciplines, including the history of transport, leisure, sport, medicine and politics, employing the analytical tools of class, gender, political culture, the role of the state and commercialism to demonstrate how British identity has shaped and been shaped by cycling.
At a time when it has become part of debates over transport and health, Cycling and the British: A Modern History provides a timely and clear analysis of the changes and continuities in attitudes towards cycling.
This book provides a history of the relationship between sport, medicine and health from the mid-19th century to today. It combines the sub-disciplines of the history of medicine and the history of sport to give a balanced analysis of the role of medicine in sport and how this has evolved over the past two centuries.
In an age where sports medicine plays an increasingly prominent role in both elite and recreational sport, this book provides a timely and clear analysis of its rise and purpose.
This book examines the history of coaching from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century. It uses a number of sports as case studies that includes: cricket, swimming, rugby union, athletics, football and tennis. The focus is largely English but international examples are used to illuminate the British context.
A number of themes are explored. Initially, in the 1800s, the coach was like an artisan who learned his skills on the job and coaching was similar to a craft. Early coaches were professionals but from the late nineteenth century an amateur elite governed British sport, who inhibited and in some sports banned coaching. As the twentieth century progressed, though, different sports at different stages began to embrace coaching as international competition intensified. In addition, the nature of coaching changed as a more scientific and managerial approach was applied. Finally, in football, the export of early British coaches is examined in light of the migration of international athletes and also as a process of ‘knowledge transfer’.
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opment of the role of the football trainer from 1885 to 1992, placing it in the wider context of the
shifting relationship between orthodox and unorthodox medicine. It is underpinned by two interde-
pendent arguments. First, it can be argued that the origins of football trainers can be traced to
unorthodox alternative medicine; their role developed largely outside a regulatory framework
imposed by the medical profession despite attempts to marginalise irregular healers and practitioners
of alternative medicine. Secondly, it is claimed that the treatments, practices and working conditions
of trainers were shaped by the sub-culture of professional football, and were an amalgam of the
uneven adoption of contemporary biomedical principles and scientific developments, especially in
physiotherapy, and the persistence of traditional methods. "
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZAe4jHfWTvrnyUAVUeww/full
"Coaching has a long history in athletics, dating back to the era of professional pedestrians such as Captain Barclay. By the early twentieth century, because of the dominance of the amateur hegemony, the notion of coaching in British athletics was in retreat. Governing bodies like the Amateur Athletics Association associated coaching with professionalism. However, due to the rise in international competition, especially the Olympic Games, this idea was reconsidered. As Britain began to slip from its place as the pre-eminent sporting nation, coaching took on a greater significance among the athletics hierarchy at least as far back as 1912. This article examines this process from 1912 to 1947, when criticism over Britain’s performance increasingly began to be thought of as a reflection of national prestige and the fitness of the
nation. In addition, it locates coaching developments not only within the shifting nature of amateurism but argues that coaching itself had an important role in changing the subtle and complex meanings of amateurism."
doctors were part of a voluntary tradition. In addition, the development of the role has reflected the nature of sports medicine in Britain and more particularly football, as well as highlighting the changing demands and pressures of the job in light of growing commercial demands.
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professional soccer as a case study. It explores the relationship between sport and
medicine within wider society and argues that a cultural resistance, based on the
persistence of a voluntary tradition and an amateur ethos, largely shaped the
evolution of sports medicine. Footballers, however, as professional athletes, have
been regarded as assets and to a certain extent their value has been reflected by
the medical care they have received. The article will focus on four areas of sports
medicine: football’s duty of care to its players and the welfare that clubs have
provided for them; how the roles of football’s medical practitioners—doctors and
trainers—have developed; how treatments for injuries have changed over time
as medical knowledge improved; and finally, some ethical issues that have re-
volved around the role of the football club manager.
http://www.ipr.mmu.ac.uk/groups/scsd/category/conferences/
Sport in History
Volume 32, Issue 2 pp. 328-330 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2012.694619
The International Journal of the History of Sport
Volume 30, Issue 2 pp. 183-185 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2012.751232
Sport in History
Volume 32, Issue 4 pp. 570-573 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2012.746851
Sport in History
Volume 33, Issue 1 pp. 101-104 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2013.772426
Sport in History
pp. 1-3 | DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2015.1008314
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SniN8rNumJCh7wRBjfzA/full
DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2015.1112966
02. In addition, three on-street surveys covering 919 members of the Leicester public were carried out at broadly six-monthly intervals before, during and after the 2009 Games. Each sample was balanced for age, gender and ethnicity in line with the city’s demographics. The aim here was to assess possible changes in public awareness of learning disability and the local impact of the Games.
03. Taken as a whole, this project offers new quantitative and qualitative data and insights into the role of Special Olympics (SO) in terms of:
i. the value of sport for the learning disabled and their families and carers
ii. the complex financial and organisational problems posed to host cities
iii. public and media awareness of learning disability generated by the Games
iv. the critical role of volunteers and the volunteer programme
v. the very real challenges of sustaining a viable Games legacy