Sports History and Culture
Established at De Montfort University in 1996, the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, based within the Institute of History, is today widely acknowledged as the world’s leading centre for the study of sports history, with the foremost historians in the field on its staff. Our team has produced critically acclaimed histories of football, rugby, cricket and women’s sport, British sport and much more. To read more about our work, click here.
The International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University invites applications to the Midlands 4 Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. Members of the Centre and their research interests are listed below.
Contacts
Dr Neil Carter, Senior Lecturer
necarter@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: History of sport and leisure in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain; the relationship between sport and medicine; history of football; history of cycling; sport and learning disability; sport and the media; sport and public policy.
Dr Dave Dee, Associate Professor
ddee@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: History of sport and recreation in modern Britain; sport and ethnicity in modern Britain; history of boxing; British Jewish history.
Dr Heather Dichter, Associate Professor
heather.dichter@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: History of the Olympic movement and international sport; history and issues related to sport mega-events; North American sport history; the history of diplomacy and international relations; NATO history; sport media; history of winter sports; history German history; European history; Scandinavian history.
Professor Martin Polley, Professor and Director of the International centre for Sprots History and Culture
martin.polley@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: History of sport and leisure; history of the modern Olympic Games and their predecessors; history of sport, politics, and diplomacy; sport and gender; sports heritage; sports historiography
Professor Matthew Taylor, Professor
mtaylor@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: History of sport and recreation in Britain and Europe; history of boxing; work and labour relations in the entertainment industry; sport, community identities and regulation in mid-twentieth century Britain; migration of athletes and entertainers; sport and leisure in Second World War Britain; Mass Observation and sport; sport and global history; sport and the British Empire