Call for Expressions of Interest to Host
#NASSH2027 Pre-Conference Workshop, May 27-28 #Skystorians #SportHistory

Call for Expressions of Interest to Host
#NASSH2027 Pre-Conference Workshop, May 27-28 #Skystorians #SportHistory
📍New article!
"Beyond National Heroines: Football, Representation, and Cold War East Asia – The Making of Taiwan’s Mulan Women’s Football Team"
by Chinfang Kuo, Hsienwei Kuo
Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The call for papers for #NASSH2027 is live! Hope to see many #SportHistory scholars in Ontario or online next spring! #Skystorians
📍New article!
"From the Schoolyard to the Factory Floor: The Educational Continuum of Japanese Football, 1945–1992"
by Dale Whitfield
Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A few days left to apply to join The International Journal of the History of Sport @ijhs.bsky.social Editor team! If you work on Europe & #sporthistory please consider applying. #skystorians 🗃️
📍New article!
"Soccer Saved my Life’: A Social History of the Grahamstown Soccer Association, 1970–1985" ⚽
by Shawn Forde, from Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Check it out:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
'The Beckwith Family Scrapbook'
@natationist.bsky.social and I at the @devonfhs.bsky.social 50th conference - our presentation was a dialogue that combined #SportHistory with #FamilyHistory
Thank you for all the wonderful comments and interesting questions
Check it out this article, part of the article collection from papers presented at the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES) Congress ⤵️
#skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory
📍New article!
"Football and National Identity Through the Lens of the Uruguayan Interior Press: The 1930 World Cup" ⚽ 🇺🇾
by Evelise Amgarten Quitzau, Daniele Cristina Carqueijeiro de Medeiros
Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#onthisday in 1964, the Tokyo Olympics opened, the first Games ever held in Asia. The flame was lit by 19-year-old Yoshinori Sakai, born on Aug 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima: a symbol of Japan's rebirth and of peace. #SportHistory
Group of young men in sports attire — Publisher R. Guilleninot, Bresling & Cie, Paris — series number not visible
#sports #vintagepostcards #postcardcollecting #sportsmen #sporthistory #youngmen #athletics #physicaleducation #vintagesports
The first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens in 1896, reviving the ancient tradition in the Panathenaic Stadium with athletes from 14 nations competing across 43 events. #SportHistory
📍New article!
"From Shared Practises to Gendered Meanings: Girls’ Gymnastics and the Making of Femininity in Norwegian Schools, 1889–1925"
by Paal Augestad, University of South-Eastern Norway, Bø, 🇳🇴
Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📍New article!
"Narrating the Awakening of Chinese Women: The Establishment and Dissemination of the Shanghai Women Chin Woo Athletic Association
by Hsienwei Kuo, Chinfang Kuo
Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📍New article!
"Before the World Was Watching: Qatar and the 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship"
by Wadha F. Al-Naemi and Thomas Ross Griffin
Check it out:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📍New article!
"From Autonomy to Aggrandizement: A Comparative History of Executive Power, Corruption, and Democratic Backsliding in International Sport Federations"
by Anthony Nakhle from Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth 🇱🇧
Check it out: t.co/Isb0leGnUF
In December 1925, the New York Americans played the first NHL game at the brand-new Madison Square Garden before about 17,000 fans, losing 3-1 to the Montreal Canadiens. They were New York's first NHL team, a year before the Rangers. #SportHistory
In 1949, Fausto Coppi won the Tour de France for Italy's national team, clawing back a huge deficit in the Pyrenees and Alps to beat teammate and rival Gino Bartali. Having already won the Giro, he became the first to win both in one year. #SportHistory
📍New article!
"Queering the Sporting Body: Discipline, Desire, and Queer Visibility in Polish Cinema"
by Jie Xiao, Department of Tourism Management, Guangzhou 🇨🇳
Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#skystorians #sporthistory
📍New article!
"The Beginnings of Water Polo in the City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1900–1913)" 🤽♀️🤽 🇧🇷
by Caio Serpa, Renato Novaes, Silvio Telles, from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Check it out:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....