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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Students from as far as Australia, Japan, Morocco, Canada and Uzbekistan have travelled to the @icshc.bsky.social here at @dmu.ac.uk Leicester to start studying on the renowned FIFA Master’s course. Full news report - www.dmu.ac.uk/current-stud... #sportshistory #WhereAmbitionBegins #FIFAMaster

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tickets NOW AVAILABLE! Book Launch - 'Migrants, Minorities, and the History of British Boxing' by @icshc.bsky.social Dr David Dee. Wednesday 21st October 2026 at 5pm. Further details - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... #sportshistory #boxing @dmuhistory.bsky.social

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Countries represented by the new class - Tunisia, USA, Jordan, Brazil, France, Germany, Australia, Morocco, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Canada, Japan, Portugal, Maldives, India, Argentina and Italy. It is great to welcome everyone to Leicester! #sportshistory

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Brilliant to welcome the new FIFA Master 27th Edition class to the @icshc.bsky.social yesterday for the start of their Induction sessions here at @dmu.ac.uk. Picture by @icshc.bsky.social FIFA Master Humanities of Sport Module Coordinator James Panter. #sportshistory #WhereAmbitionBegins

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The FIFA Master has maintained its position as the leading postgraduate sport management course in Europe with a record-breaking 14th No.1 award in the new 2026 SportBusiness rankings. The opening module is delivered by the @icshc.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk www.sportbusiness.com/2026/09/pgr-...

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

HISTORY MAKER! Saffie Osborne becomes the first female jockey to win a British Classic race by winning the 250th edition of the St Leger (oldest classic in the world) on Highwayman. #sportshistory

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BBC Radio 5 Live senior football correspondent, John Murray, received an honorary degree from @dmu.ac.uk this week during a special graduation ceremony held at Curve Theatre, Leicester. Full news story - www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/ne... #sportshistory #WhereAmbitionBegins #Radio #sport #5LiveSport

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"The humanities module opened my mind to how sport relates to society and politics". FIFA Master 'Where are they now?' interview with 2023 graduate Tuale Charles Ajuyah. Tuale began his course studies here at the @icshc.bsky.social and is now Media Counsel at the IOC - www.cies.ch/education/fi...

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

BOOK LAUNCH Registration NOW OPEN! 'Migrants, Minorities, and the History of British Boxing' by @icshc.bsky.social Dr David Dee on Wednesday 21st October 2026 at 5pm. Full details at this link - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... #sportshistory #boxing @dmu.ac.uk @dmuhistory.bsky.social

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

'Katie Taylor's last fight and 80,000 thank-yous at Croke Park'. @icshc.bsky.social Honorary Visiting Research Fellow Prof. Mike Cronin speaks to @espn.com - www.espn.co.uk/boxing/story... #sportshistory #boxing

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wonderful news! De Montfort University @dmu.ac.uk has been shortlisted for Times Higher Education's @timeshighered.bsky.social University of the Year 2026! Picture by @icshc.bsky.social James Panter. Full story - www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/ne...

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pictured left to right: Emeritus Prof. Martin Polley, Emeritus Prof. Richard Holt, ICSHC Prof. Matt Taylor, Dr Heather Dichter, Emeritus Prof. Wray Vamplew, PhD student Mike Dougherty, Dr Mel Reid, MA Sports History and Culture student Miriam Fielding, PhD student Emmy Sale, Dr Roy Thomson. #BSSH

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A few members of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social (Past and Present!) pictured at the British Society of Sports History @bssh.bsky.social 2026 Conference in Edinburgh last week. #sportshistory #BSSH

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Congratulations to @icshc.bsky.social PhD student Emmy Sale @emmyailish.bsky.social who has won the 2026 @bssh.bsky.social Richard Cox Postgraduate Prize! Emmy (pictured left with Lauren Beatty who chaired the prize committee) received the award which reflects outstanding work from new researchers.

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Amy Hunt makes #sportshistory as the first athlete in history to win four European gold medals at the same championships. #ThrowbackThursday

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

'Ireland and the Making of America: The Irish in American Sport'. @icshc.bsky.social Honorary Visiting Research Fellow Prof. Mike Cronin speaks to the UCD Clinton Institute America 250 Podcast series - www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0MB... #sportshistory #Ireland

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Legendary rugby league winger Sir Billy Boston has died aged 92 - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-... #sportshistory #rugbyleague

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Full conference programme available at this link - www.sportinhistory.com/pages/2026-b... #sportshistory #BSSH2026

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dr Dave Pendleton (ICSHC PhD graduate), ‘Exile and Sport: The Hull Continental Handball League 1958 – 1963’.

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dr Roy Thomson (ICSHC PhD graduate), ‘The saddest day of my life: sadness and the forgotten team of 11 May 1985 - the emotional impact of the Bradford City Stadium fire on Lincoln City FC’.

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Emmy Sale (ICSHC PhD student), ‘Why then appear on the hockey field in petticoats and other unsuitable clothing?": uniform rules on early women's hockey governance, 1895-1909’.

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Emeritus Prof. Martin Polley, ‘All was as it must have been for centuries": Dover's Hill and the lost century of the Cotswold Olimpicks’.

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dr Barbara Horley (ICSHC PhD graduate), 'So, what can speedway teach us about gender in the interwar years and beyond?'

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Mike Dougherty, (ICSHC PhD student), ‘A famous victory or haphazard incident? Scotland's Robert Forbes Combe and the reporting of the 1946 British Chess Championship'.

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dr Heather Dichter, ‘Salt Lake City 1976: The effort to keep the 1976 Winter Olympics in the US’.

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Professor Matt Taylor (ICSHC Director), ‘Another kind of fighting: Jane Couch, Autobiography and women’s boxing’.

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Later this week the 2026 British Society of Sport History Conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh (27th and 28th August). The International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social will be fully represented at the event, with a list of papers below - #BSSH2026

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

'Football and Fascism in the Iberian Peninsula'. NEW publication by Dr Daniele Serapiglia & Dr Juan Antonio Simón via Peter Lang. Series edited by @icshc.bsky.social Prof. Matt Taylor, Prof. Richard Holt and Prof. Fiona Skillen (Glasgow Caledonian) - www.peterlang.com/document/140... #sportshistory

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We are still thrilled about this! Congratulations to Leicestershire County Cricket Club on reaching the Metro Bank One Day Cup Final! #sportshistory #cricket #Foxes

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dmuhistory.bsky.social @dmuhistory.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Our Dr Dave Dee is a feature interviewee in this week's @jewishchron.bsky.social, discussing his new @academic.oup.com book 'Migrants, Minorities, and the History of British Boxing'. See link below 👇

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dmuhistory.bsky.social @dmuhistory.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Interested in the history of sport? Considering postgraduate study? Want a distance-learning course that is flexible and offers full and part-time study routes? Applications for our MA Sports History and Culture degree are STILL open! @icshc.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk dmu.ac.uk/study/course...

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Congratulations to the FIFA Master 26th edition class on the award of their degree certificates from everyone at De Montfort University and the International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social. Full report - www.cies.ch/cies/news/ne... #sportshistory #WhereAmbitionBegins

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Frank Soo - Historic England long read #BluePlaque article featuring @icshc.bsky.social Emeritus Prof. and National Blue Plaque Panel Member Martin Polley @historymartin.bsky.social - historicengland.org.uk/listing/nati... #sportshistory #footballhistory

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We love the new Sunderland AFC home kit for the 2026/27 season! A tribute to the club's 1937 FA Cup winning team. #sportshistory

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

FIFA Master 26th edition class present wide-ranging final project research to the public. The opening Humanities of Sport module is delivered by the @icshc.bsky.social here at @dmu.ac.uk. www.cies.ch/cies/news/ne... Picture by @icshc.bsky.social James Panter. #sportshistory #research

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Pictured - Birmingham City players Fenton, Wylie, Beard, Hockey, Thwaites and Martin enjoy lunch at Lilleshall Hall (8th February 1966). #sportshistory

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

'The Food Chain' (BBC World Service). @icshc.bsky.social Director Prof. Matt Taylor @matttayl.bsky.social helps to trace the evolution of football's food culture, explaining why clubs once left players to fend for themselves and how attitudes began to shift - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

'Hitler's Games: Berlin 1936 In Colour'. Look out for @icshc.bsky.social Dr Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social who is an academic contributor to this major Channel 4 documentary to be broadcast on Saturday 1st August 2026 at 8pm - www.channel4.com/programmes/h... #sportshistory #olympics

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Today marks the 60th anniversary (30th July 1966) of England winning the World Cup following their iconic 4-2 extra time victory against West Germany at Wembley. #OnThisDay #sportshistory #FIFAWC #football #footballhistory

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Congratulations to the FIFA Master 26th edition class on the award of their degree certificates at the Château de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, last week from everyone at the @icshc.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk! Picture by FIFA Master Humanities of Sport Module Coordinator, James Panter. #sportshistory

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Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Great to see my former @icshc.bsky.social PhD student @drkatietaylor.bsky.social publish this book on women playing American football 🏈 Congrats Katie! 🎉 #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Congratulations to Spain! FIFA Men's World Cup Champions for the second time in their history! #sportshistory #FIFAWC

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Pelé’s 1958 FIFA World Cup Final match worn shirt has sold for £3.6m at a Sotheby's auction in New York. www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti... #sportshistory #FIFAWC #Pele

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Last month we hosted the conference '(Re)fashioning women's leisure: image, material and place, 1850-present', led by @icshc.bsky.social PhD student, Emmy Sale. Pictures by @icshc.bsky.social James Panter. #sportshistory #fashion #ThrowBackThursday #WhereAmbitionBegins @dmu.ac.uk

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

'Jude Bellingham is channelling the spirit of Duncan Edwards'. Wonderful article by @timadamswrites.bsky.social for The Observer - observer.co.uk/news/opinion... #sportshistory #FIFAWC

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Cover for this week's edition of The New Yorker Magazine - “The Beautiful Game,” by Lorenzo Mattotti. #sportshistory #FIFAWC

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Looking forward to the World Cup semi-finals this week? We recommend 'From Moore to Messi: A History of the Argentine National Football Team 1902-2026' by @icshc.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk PhD graduate, Dr Mark Orton! @markaorton.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/book/from-mo... #sportshistory #WorldCup

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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Antonio Rattín obituary via @theguardian.com. Rattín refused to leave the pitch after he was sent off during the 1966 World Cup quarter-finals which led to the introduction of yellow and red cards - www.theguardian.com/football/202... #sportshistory #football

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