Sport in History, Volume 32, Issue 2 (2012)

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Britain, Britons and the Olympic Games

Articles

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Introduction: Britain, Britons and the Olympic Games
Martin Polley
Pages: 129-134
Published online: 28 May 2012
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‘Hey Pal! Who Won the Marathon?’ The Illustrated London News's Coverage of Sport in 1908, an Olympic Year
Iain Adams & Mitchell J. Larson
Pages: 135-156
Published online: 28 May 2012
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Massaging the Amateur Ethos: British Professional Trainers at the 1912 Olympic Games
Dave Day
Pages: 157-182
Published online: 28 May 2012
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Advocate or Antagonist? Sir Theodore Andrea Cook and the British Olympic Movement
Matthew P. Llewellyn
Pages: 183-203
Published online: 28 May 2012
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The Most Important Photograph in the History of Women's Olympic Participation: Jennie Fletcher and the British 4×100 Freestyle relay team at the Stockholm 1912 Games
Jean Williams
Pages: 204-230
Published online: 28 May 2012
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Fair Play and Fascism: The development of British Olympic team uniforms, 1908–1948
Geraldine Biddle-Perry
Pages: 231-256
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Rivals and Revolutionaries: Avery Brundage, the Marquess of Exeter and Olympic Television Revenue
Stephen Wenn
Pages: 257-278
Published online: 28 May 2012
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Britain and the Boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
Kevin Jefferys
Pages: 279-301
Published online: 28 May 2012
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Team GB, or No Team GB, That Is The Question: Olympic Football and the Post-War Crisis of Britishness
Neil Ewen
Pages: 302-324
Published online: 28 May 2012
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Susan Barton, A Sporting Chance: The History of Special Olympics Great Britain
Julie Anderson
Pages: 325-326
Published online: 28 Jun 2012
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Alfred E. Senn, Power, politics and the Olympic Games: A history of the power brokers, events, and controversies that shaped the Games
Susan Barton
Pages: 326-328
Published online: 28 Jun 2012
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Thomas M. Hunt, Drug Games: The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping
Neil Carter
Pages: 328-330
Published online: 28 Jun 2012
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Caroline Symons, The Gay Games: A History
Jayne Caudwell
Pages: 330-333
Published online: 28 Jun 2012
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Martin Polley, The British Olympics: Britain’s Olympic Heritage 1612-2012
Jeffrey Hill
Pages: 333-335
Published online: 28 Jun 2012
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Robert K. Barney (ed.), Rethinking the Olympics. Cultural Histories of the Modern Games
Wolf-Dietrich Junghanns
Pages: 335-339
Published online: 28 Jun 2012
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Sandra Collins, The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics
Barak Kushner
Pages: 339-342
Published online: 28 Jun 2012
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Kay Schiller and Christopher Young, The 1972 Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany
Stephen Lamb
Pages: 342-345
Published online: 28 Jun 2012
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Heiner Gillmeister, ed., From Bonn to Athens Single and Return: the diary of John Pius Boland, Olympic Champion Athens 1896
Martin Polley
Pages: 345-348
Published online: 28 Jun 2012
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Ian Brittain, The Paralympic Games Explained
David Purdue
Pages: 348-351
Published online: 28 Jun 2012
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Susan Brownell, ed. The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race and American Imperialism
Patricia Vertinsky
Pages: 351-354
Published online: 28 Jun 2012
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Nicholas E. Sarantakes Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott and the Cold War
Stephen Wagg
Pages: 354-357
Published online: 28 Jun 2012
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Steve Bailey, Athlete First: a History of the Paralympic Movement
John Williams
Pages: 357-360
Published online: 28 Jun 2012
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