Our well-established Sports History and Culture distance-learning MA will give you a firm grounding in the development of modern sport, from its traditional forms to present-day practices. This is a ...

Want to start an argument? Here's a surefire method. Sit down on a barstool anywhere in the world, clink your glass until everyone's listening, and then announce the name of a sports team or two you ...

Matthew Taylor is Professor of History and Director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture. Football: A Short History (Shire Books, 2011). The Association Game: A History of ...

Equipping punters with a pint in their hand, British pubs have long been the centre of operations for sports fans eager to cheer on their favourite teams. Here, we look back at the evolution of that ...

ANOTHER cracker from the Pocket Guide series which charts the history of sport in Wales since 1800. Placed within its social, political and economic context, it looks at the emergence of modern ...

Sport used to be a brutal, lawless affair frowned upon by the middle classes, but the Victorians changed all that. Alex Perry provides the post-match analysis. Michael Owen doubtless doesn't know it, ...

Great Britain Captain Leon Smith lifts the trophy with his team (from left to right) Jamie Murray, James Ward, Andy Murray and Kyle Edmund following their Davis Cup victory Great Britain won the Davis ...

EVERY so often, sport delivers a storyline that seems ripped from fiction. Heavy favorites collapse, unknowns rise to glory, and fans witness outcomes nobody thought possible. These moments live on ...

Chatto & Windus has won a 14-way auction for revisionist history of sport, Championess, by Anna Kessel MBE. The book offers a “radical reassessment of the history of sport” by the award-winning ...

Based on the news that Danica Patrick won the Daytona 500 pole Sunday, here are more famous female firsts in sports history. Feb. 17, 2013: Danica Patrick wins the pole at Daytona 500, the first woman ...