
Matthew Taylor
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Historian of sport @dmuhistory @ICSHC. Last book: Sport and the Home Front. Next one: World of Sport: Transnational/ Connected Histories
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A change of pace now as we have a panel with Professor Fiona Skillen, Karen Fraser and Julie McNeill talking about their joint book ‘A most unsuitable game’, released last August and covering the history of women’s football in Scotland


We’re back to sole presenters for the rest of the day and our penultimate session of the day kicks off with Richard McBrearty of the Scottish Football Museum discussing his case for continuity and innovation in the emergence of Association football in Scotland





The Club World Cup begins today, a great day to check out my book from Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books about one of the main contenders River Plate Global



Matthew Taylor Great news. My piece is on Colin Bell. Thanks Matt as always for your support at #footycon as always too.

WSC represented at the Leeds Libraries/British Library Voice of the Fans exhibition – on until August 10 at Leeds Central Library, entry is free! libraries.leeds.gov.uk/what-you-can-d…





My final commute yesterday after 15 yrs University of Leicester I've taken voluntary redundancy to write more books & changemake. Meanwhile Higher Ed. is in crisis, my colleagues' jobs are at risk. Has the nation noticed this silent decimation of our most prestigious uk sector?




