
Rob Hess
@sporthistorian
Regional Academic Editor of the International Journal of the History of Sport (IJHS), Adjunct Associate Professor in sport history at Victoria University.
ID: 183076864
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fhsp20/current 26-08-2010 02:40:17
1,1K Tweet
1,1K Followers
770 Following

750 socceranzacs.com.au. We now have documented and confirmed 750 Australian soccer players enlisted in WW1. We are over 20 per cent of the way there. FWIW more than 50 of that 750 were killed at Gallipoli. #socceranzacs Football Australia Football and War




Congratulations Conor Heffernan/@physcstudy.bsky.social on the new book!👏



To kick off session number 5 at #footycon25 is one of the biggest supporters of the conference, an always welcomed guest & our sole Aussie representative for this year Dr Kasey Symons talking about HER kind of football (quoting Kasey here) on the AFLW, Romance fiction & fandom.


Great talk today in Canberra by ASSHmember Bruce Coe on sources used in his research into Australia at the Olympics - many important primary documents discovered AUS Olympic Team

BREAKING NEWS: World Netball has announced that the Netball World Cup will be played every two years starting from 2027. And we will also see the introduction of a Men's World Cup. READ: netball.sport/world-netball-… 📸 Danny Dalton


As you may have seen on here or other social media channels, we were at #footycon25 to cover FootyCon in Belfast this past weekend & caught up with some reputable names in academia. One of these was Professor Fiona Skillen, who spoke to us about her co-authored book A Most Unsuitable Game.




Our latest episode sees Tamsin Johnson of Nottingham Trent University presenting her work on visual culture in women’s cycling between 1880-1939 as part of our seminar series at Institute of Historical Research. You can listen via the link ⬇️ or wherever you listen to your podcasts shows.acast.com/sport-in-histo…




Introduction to the special edition of Sport in History journal that I've guest edited with Professor Dil Porter, in which we focus on the history of physical education, just published #history #education #sport #physicaleducation tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New book coauthored by ASSH member Jorge Knijnik link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…