Academic Editor – Europe needed for The International Journal of the History of Sport

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Eastern Beauties: The Role of Taiwanese Corporate Women’s Basketball Teams in Cold War Cultural Diplomacy The Taiwanese corporate women’s basketball team’s goodwill tours during the Cold War, particularly from 1971 to 1980, were a significant cultural diplomacy effort. Shifting away from the dominant f...

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Eastern Beauties: The Role of Taiwanese Corporate Women’s Basketball Teams in Cold War Cultural Diplomacy, Chinfang Kuo & Hsienwei Kuo @ijhs.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Come join our editorial team as the Europe regional editor at @ijhs.bsky.social - still time to apply
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Still 3 weeks to apply to be the new IJHS Europe regional editor! ⬇️ 🗃️ #sporthistory #skystorians

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Hi Pete, that’s great to hear. We will keep you in mind if that role becomes vacant in the future.

Academic Editor – Europe needed for The International Journal of the History of Sport

Could you be our new editor? Details of the role and application process are available here 👇

think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

International Sport Success in a Non-Sovereign Nation: The Case of Judo in Scotland Scotland, often described as a ‘stateless nation’, has a strong cultural identity and rich history, but lacks full independence. The 1998 Scotland Act devolved certain policy and economic responsib...

The forthcoming special issue of @ijhs.bsky.social (on sport in small states and territories): @pch4.bsky.social & Louis Nolte on the policy history of judo in Scotland, & the anomalies of elite sport in a devolved land. It's open-access.
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International Sport Success in a Non-Sovereign Nation: The Case of Judo in Scotland Scotland, often described as a ‘stateless nation’, has a strong cultural identity and rich history, but lacks full independence. The 1998 Scotland Act devolved certain policy and economic responsib...

From our upcoming special issue of @ijhs.bsky.social (on sport in small states and territories): my @morayhouse.bsky.social colleagues @pch4.bsky.social & Louis Nolte on the policy history of judo in Scotland, & the anomalies of elite sport in a devolved land. It's open-access.

Athletic Success, Authenticity, and National Identity in Singapore: Representing the Little Red Dot Sport has been integral to Singapore’s national development, serving as a platform for fostering national identity and elevating its global stature. Since the 1990s, the Foreign Sports Talent schem...

Re @ijhs.bsky.social: the next article from mine & @malcomaxx.bsky.social's special issues on sport in small states & territores has been released. In it, Zesheng Yang & Ximeng Shang explore the naturalisation of athletes who represent Singapore in international competitions.

More good news re new publications, including a few more from our special issue of @ijhs.bsky.social on small states and territories.

First up: Tamir Bar-On and Olivier Lewis disentangle a few myths from the so-called Soccer War. doi.org/10.1080/0952...

A Bouncing Echo of Medieval Heydays? The Legacy of Pärk (Jeu de Paume) in Gotland Gotland, the largest island in the Baltic Sea, has historically had an ambivalent relationship with mainland Sweden. While political autonomy has never been demanded in modern times, Gotland has sh...

Next up, Isak Lidström investigates the sometimes-problematic legacy of pärk, a sport which purports to tell us much about the history of Gotland, but says as much about change as it does continuity. @ijhs.bsky.social

Academic Editor – Europe needed for The International Journal of the History of Sport

Come join the @ijhs.bsky.social Editorial team! IJHS is looking for a new Europe regional editor as the current one will soon become the Journal’s Managing Editor (so if you have any Q’s about the role just ask!) 🗃️ #sporthistory #skystorians

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Academic Editor – Europe needed for The International Journal of the History of Sport

We are looking for a new acadcemic editor to join us.

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Academic Editor - Europe needed for The International Journal of the History of Sport

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‘The Cheering Was Loud and Long’: Practical Feminism and the England Women’s Hockey Tour of Australia in 1927, Janet Beverley
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Vol41: 10-11, pp 1058-1076
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The International Journal of the History of Sport SPECIAL ISSUE: FIELD HOCKEY NARRATIVES: HISTORY, HERITAGE, AND COMMUNITIES. Volume 41, Issue 10-11 of The International Journal of the History of Sport

The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 41, Issue 10-11 (2024)

SPECIAL ISSUE: FIELD HOCKEY NARRATIVES: HISTORY, HERITAGE, AND COMMUNITIES
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A New Dawn: The Rise of Women’s Hockey Leagues and the Emergence and Demise of the English Ladies Hockey Leagues Association, 1910–1960 Leagues are now a common feature of the field hockey world but this was not always the case. In 1910, the introduction of a women’s hockey league in Manchester caused the hockey establishment a hea...

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A New Dawn: The Rise of Women’s Hockey Leagues and the Emergence and Demise of the English Ladies Hockey Leagues Association, 1910–1960, Mark Evans
@IJHSofficial Vol41: 10-11, pp 1039-1057

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The International Journal of the History of Sport SPECIAL ISSUE: FIELD HOCKEY NARRATIVES: HISTORY, HERITAGE, AND COMMUNITIES. Volume 41, Issue 10-11 of The International Journal of the History of Sport

The next issue we will be sharing is
@IJHSofficial Vol 41: 10-11

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Local, National and Global Histories of Field Hockey: An Overview Historically, field hockey has occupied an ambivalent space in sporting histories. Despite having a global presence, it has not – with the possible exception of India during the second half of the ...

Very pleased to advise that the special issue of
@IJHSofficial dedicated to the history of field hockey has now been published. See the Introduction at tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Thanks to editors Rob Hess, Geoff Watson and Heather L. Dichter, as well as contributors & peer-reviewers

The Winter Olympics: A Century of Games on Ice and Snow The Olympic Winter Games, although younger than their summer counterpart, nonetheless have a long and storied history. From the first iteration in Chamonix, France, in 1924, through the first off-s...

Yesterday marked 1 year to the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Interested in the Winter Games' history? Check out the @ijhs.bsky.social article @wpgsarah.bsky.social & I wrote (Open Access): "The Winter Olympics: A Century of Games on Ice and Snow" ❄️ 🗃️

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Have had a great week at our final @britishacademy.bsky.social International Writing Workshop on developing #sportshistory in Africa run by Tarminder Kaur, @malcomaxx.bsky.social @kschille.bsky.social (who took the 📸) & me. Looking forward to 2 special issues of @ijhs.bsky.social & Sport in History

The International Journal of the History of Sport Volume 40, Issue 9 of The International Journal of the History of Sport

Check out issue 41:9 of @IJHSofficial
We will be highlighting articles in this issue in our next few posts.
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The International Journal of the History of Sport Volume 41, Issue 9 of The International Journal of the History of Sport

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Any suggestions to help with the posting for @ijhs.bsky.social from our wonderful Editorial Committee member @fionaskillen.bsky.social ? Thanks! 🗃️

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Happy Holidays from all at @IJHS

The International Journal of the History of Sport Volume 41, Issue 9 of The International Journal of the History of Sport

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An Olympic Fairytale: The Zimbabwean Women’s Field Hockey Victory at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games In July 1980, an all-white Zimbabwean women’s hockey team made history by unexpectedly winning gold at the Olympic Games in Moscow. The 1980 games had been overshadowed by cold war political tensio...

First, this is a brilliant article by Tafadzwa Blessing Choto on Zimbabwe's gold-medal winning, all-white women's hockey team at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.

This is for the field hockey 🏑 special issue that is in the final stages of production. Really excited for all the articles there 🗃️

As one of the editors of @ijhs.bsky.social I'm duty bound to shill out for its recent content (behind uni paywalls):