11th International Congress
Sport in history: promises and problems

Registration

Key note Presentation

given by Professor Fred Coalter, University of Stirling

Fred Coalter is Professor of Sports Policy at the University of Stirling. His research interests relate to the contributions which it is claimed that sport can make to various aspects of social policy. His published work includes A Wider Social Role for Sport: Who’s Keeping the Score? (Routledge, 2007) and he is responsible for compiling Sport England/UK Sport’s on-line research-based Value of Sport Monitor. In addition, he writes and researches in the area of sport-in-development, having published Sport-in-Development: A Monitoring and Evaluation Manual (UK Sport, UNICEF, 2006) which was based on extensive fieldwork in Africa and India. Currently, he is undertaking a three year study of eight sport-in-development projects in Africa and two in India for Comic Relief and UK Sport. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Leisure and Amenity Management, the American Academy of Leisure Sciences and Chief Officers for Culture, Leisure and Community Services in Scotland and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Swiss Academy Development

Welcome reception

Meeting for ISHPES Executive

(Time to be confirmed)

Parallel sessions

Distillery Tour

Coach departs campus for distillery tour, whisky tasting and dinner at the Famous Grouse, Crieff (to be booked in advance)

ISHPES AGM

followed by Council meeting

Keynote presentation

Parallel sessions

ISHPES 2009 Award Keynote lecture

Mike Huggins, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cumbria.

Mike Huggins is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cumbria. He has broad research interests across the fields of nineteenth and twentieth century leisure and sport history in Britain. He is currently researching the ‘visual turn’ in sports history, and exploring the interfaces between sport, history and their visual representations, whilst preparing a June 2009 conference on the theme at Bristol University and a double issue of the International Journal of Sports History in 2010. His Flat Racing and British Society 1790-1914 (Frank Cass, 2000) won the NASSH award that year. Recent books include Sport and the Victorians (Hambledon, 2005) and, with Jack Williams, Sport and the English 1918-1939 (Routledge, 2006). In 2008 he edited a special edition of Sport in History on the British upper classes and their sports. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the membership secretary of the British Society for Sports History, the Senior Review Editor of IJHS, and is on several other editorial consultancy boards. He has lectured in many countries, including most recently the USA where he was a research fellow at the National Sporting Library in Virginia in summer 2008

Falkirk Wheel

(time to be confirmed)

Parallel sessions

Excursions

Afternoon excursions (to be booked in advance) to:

The Scottish Football Museum, Hampden Park

British Golf Museum, St Andrews

Stirling Castle

Drinks Reception

Drinks reception at the Lord Provost’s Office

Derek Birley Lecture

given by Jeffrey Hill, De Montfort University

Jeffrey Hill worked in the History department at Nottingham Trent University for several years before moving to De Montfort University in 2001 as Director of the International Centre for Sport History and Culture, a post he relinquished in October 2007. His research interests are twofold: the history of popular politics in Britain in the 19th and 20th century, involving a current study of the inter-war Conservative Party; and the social and cultural history of sport and leisure, in which his recent focus has been on the representation of sport in literature. In 2002 he published Sport and Leisure in Twentieth-Century Britain (Palgrave Macmillan) and in 2006 Sport and the Literary Imagination (Peter Lang). He is currently working on several projects related to sport and literature, including a study of Alf Tupper, the ‘Tough of the Track’, the athletics hero of the Rover and Victor comics from the 1940s to the 1990s (see Sport in History, 26, 3, Dec. 2006, pp. 502-19) and an introductory text on sport history for Palgrave. In addition, he is a co-director of an AHRC-funded study of the public representation of sport in history, museum and heritage contexts. He has lectured in various countries, including the USA where he was Visiting Scholar in European Studies at Columbus State University, Georgia, in 2006. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Historical and Cultural Studies at De Montfort University

Parallel sessions

Dinner & Ceilidh

Conference dinner and Ceilidh, Pathfoot Hall, University of Stirling

BSSH conference and parallel sessions

BSSH conference and parallel sessions