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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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Thinking While Playing: Football-Specific Dual-Task Performance and Coach-Rated Talent in Youth Football. [PDF]

Sports (Basel)
Lucas JMR, Párraga Montilla JA, Herrero Sánchez M, Cabrera-Linares JC, Latorre Román PÁ.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of factors influencing food choices among Lebanese weightlifters and football players. [PDF]

J Int Soc Sports Nutr
Al Dannaoui AM, Rajeh C, Chalak A, Fares EJ, Olabi A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Concussion and Head Injuries in Soccer: Research Trends, Knowledge Structure, and Emerging Themes. [PDF]

Orthop Rev (Pavia)
Muppala S, Gadikiota P, Viswanath O, Ganti L.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Health follows football: a reflexive thematic analysis of culture, masculinity, and men's wellbeing in recreational football. [PDF]

Health Promot Int
McDermott C, McGrath A, Egan T, Finnegan L, King E, Richardson N, Harrison M, Daly S, Carroll P.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
wiley   +1 more source