This was a great first session. Looking forward to many more to follow.

@dmuhistory.bsky.social @dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social

A reminder that the Leicester Branch's first free talk of the year will take place online at 6pm on Tuesday 9th September.

Andy Chapman, the Hon. Secretary of the Northamptonshire Archaeological Society, will be speaking about Excavations at St James’s Abbey in Northampton.

🎓Our Academic Skills Refresher workshops start today! 🎓

Use this selection of workshops to get your next assignment or dissertation in shape for submission, or just top up your skills ready for the year ahead.

To see the full programme visit: dmu-ac-uk.libcal.com/calendar/wor...

Our Dr Dave Dee features in this Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry (Tel Aviv University) article on 'Offside: British Jews and Football' by Noah Abrahams, which explores why so few British Jews have become professional footballers: cst.tau.ac.il/perspectives...

Great to see this roundtable to celebrate 30 years of the Sports History & culture MA at @dmuhistory.bsky.social & the origins of the @icshc.bsky.social

Representing DMU are Heather Dichter, Dick Holt & Mel Reid as teachers & former teachers on the MA with Tom Fabian appearing as a former student.

Do you want to study History but are worried about clearing? Please consider checking out our History degree courses at De Montfort University. You can find information about the clearing process and our history offerings at our website.

Congratulations to @icshc.bsky.social PhD student, Ben Duncan-Jones, who has successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled, ‘The Geographies of Prizefighting in Britain, 1860 to 1880: Change and Continuity’, passing with minor corrections! Well done Dr Duncan-Jones! #sportshistory #Boxing

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? Our MA Sports History and Culture could be for you!
@ICSHC
@dmuleicester
dmu.ac.uk/study/course...

🗃️ Interested in the history, heritage and traditions of sport? Why not apply for our @icshc.bsky.social Online MA in Sports History and Culture and join our #sportshistory postgraduate community! Further information ready for September start at this link - www.dmu.ac.uk/study/course...

Listen to the brilliant Dr Barbara Horley, an expert on the history of speedway, in this series on Arthur Elvin and Wembley @icshc.bsky.social @dmuhistory.bsky.social

Good luck Neil. We're sad to see you go. You were a great colleague and a great tutor to numerous students.

🔔 Create for Us: Submissions open for the 2nd Edition of our Fonds Anthology! Open to all staff, student & alumni of @dmuleicester.bsky.social
All you need to know on our blog: https://buff.ly/3X9QfTh Happy writing!
@librarydmu.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social @dmuhistory.bsky.social #creativewriting

Had a wonderful session at @dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social with our @dmuhistory.bsky.social third year students! They're working on an online exhibition using Special Collections materials so watch this space 👀

Interested in the history, heritage and traditions of sport? Why not apply for our Online MA in Sports History and Culture? Further details at - www.dmu.ac.uk/study/course....
We also welcome #PhD applications in all areas of #sports #history #culture #skyhistorians www.dmu.ac.uk/doctoral-col...

Our Dr Dave Dee's involvement in a recent theatre production about Welsh boxer Cuthbert Taylor's struggle against discrimination in British boxing before WW2 is detailed in this @dmuleicester.bsky.social article: www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/ne...
@icshc.bsky.social

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? Our MA Sports History and Culture could be for you!
@ICSHC
@dmuleicester
dmu.ac.uk/study/course...

Today is publication day for World of Sport. It foregrounds sport as a key element of transnational and global history from the mid C19th to the 1960s and emphasises the connections, interactions and circulations in the making of modern sport across the globe.
www.routledge.com/World-of-Spo...

Here is my latest book review, this time of the brilliant and moving volume by @eithnenight.bsky.social on 'Child Migrant Voices in Britain'.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...