The Historian 160: Sport in History
The magazine of the Historical Association
Contents
4 Letters
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Faster, higher, stronger – but don’t try too hard: political and social attitudes underpinning the 1924 Olympics – Steve Illingworth (Read article)
12 Who only history know? Cricket, society, and the historical oversight of sport – Duncan Stone (Read article)
16 The right to fight: women’s boxing in Britain – Matthew Taylor (Read article)
22 A world champion woman swimmer of the 1920s: writing Lilian Harrison into history – Matthew Brown and Pablo Scharagrodsky (Read article)
26 White City: the world’s first Olympic Stadium – Martin Polley (Read article)
31 Out and About in ‘The most Loyal and Ancient City of Taunton’ – Isabella Peach (Read article)
34 The Importance of Truth, Quality and Objectivity in the BBC German Service from 1938 to 1945 – Hattie Simpson (Read article)
43 ‘Friendship on the Cusp, 1924–47’: the circle of Ulster literary male friendships of author Forrest Reid – Michael Kelly (Read article)
46 Opinion: Who was ‘the man of his time’? – Lorenzo Kamel (Read article)
48 Real Lives: Maharaja’s German: Anthony Pohlmann in India – Arunansh Goswami (Read article)
51 Reviews
54 My Favourite History Place: A Short History of Brill – Josephine Glover (Read article)
56 Membership Extra: Britain and the First World War: not just battles – Paula Kitching (Read article)
60 Membership Extra: Why White Liberals Fail: United States politics in an election year – interview with Professor Anthony J Badger (Read article)
63 Membership Extra: The Virtual Branch
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Cover image: A scene from Chariots of Fire (1981), a film about the 1924 Olympics (Photo 12 / Alamy)
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