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📍New book review ! "Skating Away from the Binary", Erica Rand, University of Minnesota Press (2026), 96 pp. Book review by Karen Mailley 📷Come and have a look: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory
Skating Away from the Binary
Published in The International Journal of the History of Sport (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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📍New article out! "Ioannis Chrysafis, the Greek Gymnasts, and Their Innovative Gymnastic Theory: From the Reconstruction Era to the Period of Liberal Nationalism, 1897–1922" by C.Dampasis, E.Albanidis, E.Bebetsos & M.Choumerianos #skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ioannis Chrysafis, the Greek Gymnasts, and Their Innovative Gymnastic Theory: From the Reconstruction Era to the Period of Liberal Nationalism, 1897–1922
The unsuccessful Greco-Turkish War of 1897 prompted a process of national reconstruction in Greece. This process was initiated by Law BXKA (1899), through which gymnastics was employed to promote n...
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📍New article out! "From Fun to World-Class Quality: The Beginnings and Development of Basketball in Bosnia And Herzegovina" by Jovan Vuković, Slobodan Simović, Munir Talović, Kristina Pantelić Babić, Denis Čaušević 📷Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory
From Fun to World-Class Quality: The Beginnings and Development of Basketball in Bosnia And Herzegovina
Basketball is one of the most popular and successful sports in the Balkans, especially in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and in the countries that emerged from its dissolution...
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📍New article out! "Gender, Hoops and Soft Power: The 1958 United States Women’s Basketball Goodwill Tour in the Soviet Union" by Emalee Nelson Stone 📷Come have a look: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory
Gender, Hoops and Soft Power: The 1958 United States Women’s Basketball Goodwill Tour in the Soviet Union
In the early summer of 1958, the United States women’s basketball team embarked on a goodwill tour of the Soviet Union, marking the first women’s basketball exchange between the two Cold War superp...
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📍New article out! "On the Martial Stances of Ancient Hellenic Palē, Pygmē, and Pankration: A Window into How Each Combat Sport Was Practiced" by Athanasios Bonas 📷Come have a look: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory
On the Martial Stances of Ancient Hellenic Palē, Pygmē, and Pankration: A Window into How Each Combat Sport Was Practiced
Marking both the individual style of a fighter and the systemic elements of the sport they practice; the combat stance displays a wealth of information. To better understand how the ancient Helleni...
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📍New article out! "Gender Norms, Fairness Ideology, and the First Openly Trans Woman Athlete in South Korea" by Soo Yeon Kim and Sungjoo Park #skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory 📷Check it out: t.co/fZnE5CgskJ
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Excited for this special issue of @ijhs.bsky.social - if your research relates to #sportheritage and clubs please submit an abstract! Deadline: August 31 #skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory
@ijhs.bsky.social · last mo.📣 Call for papers! "Manufacturing the Past: Sports Clubs as Sites of Memory and Power" Key informations: ⏳Dead line for the abstract: August 31, 2026 📜Lenght: Abstracts of 300 words ⏳Dead line for the manuscript: April,20 2027 More info: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu....
#skystorians 🗃️ 😎And the Issue 5 is now out! With a special Section with papers from the 2024 ISHPES Congress. Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fhsp20/4...
The International Journal of the History of Sport
Special Section: Papers from the 2024 ISHPES Congress. Volume 43, Issue 5 of The International Journal of the History of Sport
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#skystorians 🗃️ 📍New article out! "The First Women’s Olympic Games, Paris 1922" by Florence Carpentier, University of Toulouse 🇫🇷 Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The First Women’s Olympic Games, Paris 1922
Women’s Olympic Games took place in Paris on August 20, 1922, organized by the Frenchwoman Alice Milliat (1884–1957), against the will of the International Olympic Committee and in a context relati...
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#skystorians 🗃️ 📍New article out! "The Third Women’s World Games, Prague, 1930" by Pavlína Vostatková from @charlesuni.cuni.cz Check it out: t.co/MvQJJZEajF
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#skystorians 🆕 article out! "The Scarlet Runners and the Welsh All Blacks: Traditions and Identities in Welsh Rugby" by Nye Davies from Cardiff University Check it out: t.co/L4RO2DnvPo
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#skystorians 📢 The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 43, Issue 4, April 2026 is now available online! Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fhsp20/4...
📍New article out! "Between Performance and Proto-Sport: Embodied Heritage, Commercial Entertainment and the Career of Joseph Liphard’s Circus Troupe in 19thCentury Europe" by Mateusz Rozmiarek and Izabella Parowicz And here it is: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Between Performance and Proto-Sport: Embodied Heritage, Commercial Entertainment, and the Career of Joseph Liphard’s Circus Troupe in Nineteenth-Century Europe
In the nineteenth century, commercial entertainment functioned as proto-sportive embodied heritage, as demonstrated through the career of Joseph Liphard (1798–1858) and his circus troupe, drawing o...
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📍New article out! "Sporting Art for the Global Age? ‘Edition Olympia’ and the 1972 Munich Olympics" by Andreas Kramer @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Sporting Art for the Global Age? ‘Edition Olympia’ and the 1972 Munich Olympics
‘Edition Olympia’, a collection of art posters commissioned from international artists for the 1972 Olympics in Munich, offers a fascinating case study of interactions between art, sport and politi...
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📣 Call for papers! "Manufacturing the Past: Sports Clubs as Sites of Memory and Power" Key informations: ⏳Dead line for the abstract: August 31, 2026 📜Lenght: Abstracts of 300 words ⏳Dead line for the manuscript: April,20 2027 More info: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu....
Manufacturing the Past: Sports Clubs as Sites of Memory and Power
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📍New article out! "From Acclaim to Collapse: The Rise and Fall of the A1 Grand Prix World Cup of Motorsport (A1GP, 2005–2009)" by Shun Yao. Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📍New article out! ‘Colonialism Has No Place in the Olympic Movement’: Ukrainian American Activists and the Olympics, 1956–1984" by Erin E. Redihan Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Colonialism Has No Place in the Olympic Movement’: Ukrainian American Activists and the Olympics, 1956–1984
United States-based Ukrainian activists sought separate Olympic representation and international recognition for Ukraine from 1956–1984 as a means of demonstrating Ukraine’s political legitimacy an...
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📣 New article out! "Skiing into Leadership: Cultivating Modern Womanhood Through Extracurricular Life, Sport, and Service at the University of Alberta During the 1930s" by Lyndsay Conrad, University of Alberta. Check it out: t.co/HyY4u0TbCW
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📸Focus on Papers from the 2024 ISHPES Congress "Female Beauty, Symmetry, and Race: Interpretations of Georges Hébert in the Works of Renato Kehl" by Carolina Jubé and André Luiz do Santos Silva Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Female Beauty, Symmetry, and Race: Interpretations of Georges Hébert in the Works of Renato Kehl
Renato Kehl (1889–1974) was a Brazilian physician and a leading figure in the eugenics movement in Brazil during the early twentieth century. His writings reveal how conceptions of race and beauty ...
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📍New article out! "China’s First Public Specialized Physical Education Institution: The National Normal College of Guoshu and PE (国立国术体育师范专科学院)" by Zhenchuan Ma from Sports Institute, Jishou University 🇨🇳 Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
China’s First Public Specialized Physical Education Institution: The National Normal College of Guoshu and PE (国立国术体育师范专科学院)
The National Normal College of Guoshu and Physical Education (NNCGPE) stands as a pivotal yet long-misrepresented institution in modern Chinese physical culture. Drawing on Republican-era archival ...
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📣 Call for papers! "Manufacturing the Past: Sports Clubs as Sites of Memory and Power" Key informations: ⏳Dead line for the abstract: August 31, 2026 📜Lenght: Abstracts of 300 words ⏳Dead line for the manuscript: April,20 2027 More info: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu....
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📢A new review by Alon K. Raab is out: "The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul" by Murat C. Yıldız (University of Texas Press, 2026). t.co/mZMRtj7M2h
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📍New article out! "Reconstructing Sports Heritage After Demolition: The Case of Dongdaemun Baseball Stadium in South Korea" by Seungil Park, Chanwoo Park, Sun-Yong Kwon from Seoul National University. 🇰🇷 Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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🚨A la Une today: Runner up for the 2024 Best Article Award: John Flynn from the University of Utah 🇺🇸 "Summit Diplomacy: US-Soviet Mountaineering Exchanges, 1974–1989" Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Summit Diplomacy: US-Soviet Mountaineering Exchanges, 1974–1989
Mountaineers played an unlikely role in facilitating diplomatic relations and cultural exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. From 1974 to 1989, American and S...
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🚨New article published! "A Taiwanese Intersex Track and Field Athlete in the 1960s" by Hsiang-Pin Chin, 📍Kaohsiung University, Cheng-Chia Lin, 📍 Loughborough Uni and Ping-Chao Lee 📍Taichung University Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A Taiwanese Intersex Track and Field Athlete in the 1960s
Lily, a Taiwanese track and field athlete with an intersex condition who competed in the 1960s, was raised and identified as female from childhood. Her exceptional physical attributes and passion f...
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🗞️New article out now! "The Dialectic of Self-Reliance and Self-Colonization: Surrender, Resistance, and Independence in the Okinawan Karate Community, 1979–1997" by Haonan Liu, Changming Yang and Kohei Kogiso. ▶️Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Dialectic of Self-Reliance and Self-Colonization: Surrender, Resistance, and Independence in the Okinawan Karate Community, 1979–1997
The Okinawa Karate community underwent transformations between 1979 and 1997 as it came under pressure from the Japan Karatedo Federation regarding the so-called ‘Ryukyu Disposition for Karate’, wh...
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🗞️New article out now! "Between Heaven and Hell: Constraint, Rivalry, and the Making of Yugoslav Alpine Excellence in the Cold War" by Peter Mikša, University of Ljubljana; and Ivan Laković, University of Montenegro. ▶️Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Between Heaven and Hell: Constraint, Rivalry, and the Making of Yugoslav Alpine Excellence in the Cold War
Yugoslav alpinism developed during the Cold War through an asymmetry of access that defined the southeastern Alpine space. While Yugoslav climbers faced persistent administrative and financial barr...
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👀A la Une this week! Let's talk about eSports 🎮🎲🎯 An article by Jean Loup Chappelet from @unil.bsky.social "The Inclusion of eSports in the Olympic System: From Neglect to eSports Games" Check it out ⤵️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Inclusion of eSports in the Olympic System: From Neglect to eSports Games
Although relatively rapid from the late 2010s onward, the inclusion of organized video game competitions – commonly known as eSports – in the Olympic world did not happen overnight. Three phases ar...
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👀New article out now! "Tennis for Anyone?: Class and Social Transformation on the Court in Eric Ravilious’ Tennis (1930)" by Mike O’Mahony from @bristoluni.bsky.social Department of History of Art. Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tennis for Anyone?: Class and Social Transformation on the Court in Eric Ravilious’ Tennis (1930)
Eric Ravilious’ 1930 painting Tennis, one of the most important works of art to examine the modern game, has been broadly overlooked by historians of both sport and art. A close analysis of this wo...
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New article out 🗞️ "Poland -The Land of Winter Sports: The Visual Representations of Skiing and Ice Hockey in the Polish Section of the 1932 Olympic Art Competition in Los Angeles" by Przemysław Strożek from Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences ⤵️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Poland – The Land of Winter Sports: The Visual Representations of Skiing and Ice Hockey in the Polish Section of the 1932 Olympic Art Competition in Los Angeles
The Olympic Art Competition, which opened in the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art in 1932, featured artists from 31 countries and a total of 1,155 artworks. The Polish section was mod...
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