Methodology in Sports History

1. Introduction: Sports History Methodology: Old and New

Dave Day and Wray Vamplew

2. A Bird's-Eye View of the Past: Digital History, Distant Reading and Sport History

Murray G. Phillips, Gary Osmond and Stephen Townsend

3. Diplomatic and International History: Athletes and Ambassadors

Heather L. Dichter

4. Still Playing Together(?): A Recall to Physical Education and Sport History Intersections

Geoffery Z. Kohe

5. Towards a Critical Dialogue between the History of Sport, Management History, and Sport Management/Organization Studies in Research and Teaching

Matthew L. McDowell

6. Geography and the Methodological Ballpark: Putting Place into Sports History

Chris Perkins

7. Methodology in Sports History: Learning from Legal Scholarship?

Jack Anderson

8. Parallel Fields: Labour History and Sports History

Matthew Taylor

9. Economics and (Modern) Sports History

Stefan Szymanski

10. The Development of Sport in Museums

J. Reilly

11. Archives and Historians of Sport

Martin Johnes

12. Ways of Seeing, Ways of Telling: From Art History to Sport History

John Hughson

13. The Philosophy of Sport

Andrew Edgar

14. Durkheim and Sociological Method: Historical Sociology, Sports History, and the Role of Comparison

Dominic Malcolm

15. The Visual in Sport History: Approaches, Methodologies and Sources

Mike Huggins

16. Complexity, Critique, and Close Reading: Sport History and Literary Studies

Shannon R. Smith

17. In Praise of Numbers: Quantitative Sports History

Wray Vamplew

18. Cultural Studies and Sport History

Daniel A. Nathan

19. Narrative Methods in Sport History Research: Biography, Collective Biography, and Prosopography

Samantha-Jayne Oldfield

20. It's Good to Talk: Oral History, Sports History and Heritage

Fiona Skillen and Carol Osborne