All Stories

  1. From Butlins to Europe: Fodens Ladies in the 1960s and 1970s
  2. Swimming into modernity: innovation and invention amongst aquatic craft communities in Victorian England
  3. Swimming Natationists, Mistresses, and Matrons: Familial Influences on Female Careers in Victorian Britain
  4. Bricoleurs extraordinaire: sports coaches in Inter War Britain
  5. The industrial middle class and the development of sport and in a railway town
  6. Les « écuries d’entraînement humain » de l’Amérique victorienne : différences culturelles dans le coaching sportif
  7. Victorian Turkish Baths
  8. Natational dress: functionality, fashion and the fracturing of separate spheres in Victorian Britain
  9. Introduction. Quelques perspectives anglaises sur le coaching sportif
  10. Sports History Methodology: Old and New
  11. Boxing: A Concise History of the Sweet Science
  12. From Lambeth to Niagara: Imitation and Innovation among Female Natationists
  13. Delineating Professional and Amateur Athletic Bodies in Victorian England
  14. America's ‘Mysterious “Training Tables”’: British Reactions and Amateur Hypocrisy
  15. The International Boxing Union (1913–1946): A European Sports and/or Political Failure?
  16. Victorian coaching communities: exemplars of traditional coaching practice
  17. Pieces of Eight: Bob Janousek and his Olympians
  18. The Olympics, amateurism and Britain’s coaching heritage
  19. ‘Science’, ‘Wind’ and ‘Bottom’: Eighteenth-Century Boxing Manuals
  20. ‘What Girl Will Now Remain Ignorant Of Swimming?’ Agnes Beckwith, Aquatic Entertainer and Victorian Role Model
  21. Massaging the Amateur Ethos: British Professional Trainers at the 1912 Olympic Games
  22. Beckwith, Frederick Edward (1821–1898), swimmer
  23. Brickett, Walter Septimus (1865–1933), swimming coach
  24. ‘Magical and fanciful theories’: sports psychologists and craft coaches
  25. Craft Coaching and the ‘Discerning Eye’ of the Coach
  26. Kinship and Community in Victorian London: the 'Beckwith Frogs'
  27. Book Reviews
  28. London Swimming Professors: Victorian Craftsmen and Aquatic Entrepreneurs
  29. Historical perspectives on coaching