@dmuhistory.bsky.social
The account of the History team at De Montfort University, Leicester.
Do you want to study History but are worried about clearing? Please consider checking out our History degree courses at De Montfort University. You can find information about the clearing process and our history offerings at our website.
11.08.2025 08:24 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to @icshc.bsky.social PhD student, Ben Duncan-Jones, who has successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled, ‘The Geographies of Prizefighting in Britain, 1860 to 1880: Change and Continuity’, passing with minor corrections! Well done Dr Duncan-Jones! #sportshistory #Boxing
07.07.2025 16:11 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Interested in the history of sport? Considering postgraduate study? Want a distance-learning course that is flexible and offers full and part-time study routes? Our MA Sports History and Culture could be for you!
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🗃️ Interested in the history, heritage and traditions of sport? Why not apply for our @icshc.bsky.social Online MA in Sports History and Culture and join our #sportshistory postgraduate community! Further information ready for September start at this link - www.dmu.ac.uk/study/course...
04.06.2025 16:08 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Listen to the brilliant Dr Barbara Horley, an expert on the history of speedway, in this series on Arthur Elvin and Wembley @icshc.bsky.social @dmuhistory.bsky.social
19.05.2025 18:10 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Good luck Neil. We're sad to see you go. You were a great colleague and a great tutor to numerous students.
28.02.2025 20:43 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🔔 Create for Us: Submissions open for the 2nd Edition of our Fonds Anthology! Open to all staff, student & alumni of @dmuleicester.bsky.social
All you need to know on our blog: https://buff.ly/3X9QfTh Happy writing!
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A female student is looking at a leaflet, there are other papers on the table
Two students are standing up, going through the pages of an album with photographs and other papers. A third student is sitting next to them looking at a scrapbook
A student flicks through some documents, there are papers, a box with small objects and photographic albums on the table
Had a wonderful session at @dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social with our @dmuhistory.bsky.social third year students! They're working on an online exhibition using Special Collections materials so watch this space 👀
19.02.2025 15:46 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Interested in the history, heritage and traditions of sport? Why not apply for our Online MA in Sports History and Culture? Further details at - www.dmu.ac.uk/study/course....
We also welcome #PhD applications in all areas of #sports #history #culture #skyhistorians www.dmu.ac.uk/doctoral-col...
Our Dr Dave Dee's involvement in a recent theatre production about Welsh boxer Cuthbert Taylor's struggle against discrimination in British boxing before WW2 is detailed in this @dmuleicester.bsky.social article: www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/ne...
@icshc.bsky.social
Interested in the history of sport? Considering postgraduate study? Want a distance-learning course that is flexible and offers full and part-time study routes? Our MA Sports History and Culture could be for you!
@ICSHC
@dmuleicester
dmu.ac.uk/study/course...
Today is publication day for World of Sport. It foregrounds sport as a key element of transnational and global history from the mid C19th to the 1960s and emphasises the connections, interactions and circulations in the making of modern sport across the globe.
www.routledge.com/World-of-Spo...
Here is my latest book review, this time of the brilliant and moving volume by @eithnenight.bsky.social on 'Child Migrant Voices in Britain'.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
