Tony Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3736837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Montfort University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7510-6019 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 34 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From black Welsh miner to Marcus Garvey's nemesis
This article uncovers the life of Lionel Francis, one of the people who ousted Marcus Garvey from the leadership of the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and who would eventually lead the UNIA. Although described by Garvey's biographers as a medical doctor from Trinidad, this article reveals that Francis was never a doctor but began his working life as a miner and a preacher in the South Wales coalfields, enduring racism and personal st…
John Bull, Marianne et le ballon ovale
Le rugby a représenté un aspect non-négligeable des relations franco-britanniques tout au long du vingtième siècle. Ces relations sportives n’ont pas été de tout repos et ont porté les préjugés construits depuis la fin du xviiie siècle par les guerres entre les deux nations. Dès les années 1910-1920, les rugby unions britanniques font valoir de nombreux griefs à l’égard du rugby français. Les rugbymen français seraient soumis à leurs passions, br…
The Rugby World in the Professional Era
An edited book in which the authors look at the history and culture of rugby union around the world since 1995, the year the sport turned professional.
Association Football
Auto Racing Comes of Age
Building The Family Game
Maurice Oldroyd is probably not a name known to most readers of this journal. Yet he is arguably one of the most important figures in the history of amateur sport in Britain in the last third of th
Fútbol, Jews and the making of Argentina
Fútbol, Jews and the making of Argentina
Ranaan Rein is the one of the world's foremost authorities on the history of the Jewish communities of South America. Futbol, Jews and the Making of Argentina allows him to indulge his passion for
Claude Walter Masters, Rugby, Football and the Working Classes in Victorian and Edwardian York
C.W. Masters' book provides a comprehensive view of the development of the football codes, and rugby in particular, in Victorian and Edwardian York. The depth of research and the fact that it roots...
Pedestrianism
It’s Rough Game but Good Sport
Early Football and the Emergence of Modern Soccer, c. 1840–1880
The origins of the modern football codes have attracted considerable attention from historians of sport over the past two decades, resulting in a vigorous debate between the self-described ‘revisionists’, led by Adrian Harvey, and the followers of Eric Dunning, dubbed by their opponents as the ‘orthodox’ view. However, this article argues that both sides commit the same methodological errors: an overestimation of the importance of written rules, …
In Full Bloem. Jamie Bloem – Rugby Footballer
The Rise of the National Basketball Association
The history of professional basketball in the United States has not been well-served by historians of American sport. Whereas baseball overflows with studies of every conceivable era and aspect of
Come Out Swinging
This is rich and fascinating book, one that is both a model of ethnography and an important commentary on the social devastation wrought on America's black communities over the past 30 or so years
Rugby's Great Split
Since it’s first publication, Rugby’s Great Split has established itself as a classic in the field of sport history. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, this deeply researched and highly readable book traces the social, cultural and economic divisions that led, in 1895, to schism in the game of rugby and the creation of rugby league, the sport of England’s northern working class. Tony Collins’ analysis challenges many of the conventiona…
Sport in Capitalist Society
Why are the Olympic Games the driving force behind a clampdown on civil liberties? What makes sport an unwavering ally of nationalism and militarism? Is sport the new opiate of the masses? These and many other questions are answered in this new radical history of sport by leading historian of sport and society, Professor Tony Collins. Tracing the history of modern sport from its origins in the burgeoning capitalist economy of mid-eighteenth centu…
The King of Brilliance
Unexceptional exceptionalism
This article explores the origins and early history of American football in relation to the development of rugby and similar codes in the English-speaking world of the last third of the nineteenth century. It suggests that the traditional narrative description of the emergence of the American game – which is ascribed in large part to the individual initiative of Walter Camp – fails to situate the sport in the context of the wider, transnational d…
Kevin Jefferys. Sport and Politics in Modern Britain
This Rugby Spellbound People’
La peur de la pénalité chez le joueur de rugby
L'importance de la pénalité (penalty) dans le rugby à XV trouve son origine dans les classes moyennes anglaises qui conçurent ce sport à l'époque victorienne. Or, ses dirigeants anglais ne souhaitaient pas en général que le rugby se « diffuse » et la crainte de la pénalité, à la fois sur le terrain et en dehors, est devenue l'un de ses traits distinctifs. Cet article montre que le processus d'expansion d'un sport ne se réduit pas à une « diffusio…
Amateurism and the Rise of Managerialism
This article explores the complex relationship between English rugby union and coaching since the formation of the Rugby Football Union in 1871. Using archival sources, handbooks, manuals and a wide range of other sources, it traces the evolution of attitudes to coaching, from open opposition to the concept for most of the game's history through to its unashamed embrace of managerialism in the 1990s. It argues that the changes in these attitudes …
The Tyranny of Deference
Historians have traditionally viewed sport in Australia as a vehicle for nationalist sentiment. This paper explores the history of Australian rugby union and its relationship with Britain in the first half of the twentieth century to argue against that assumption that sporting rivalry automatically means national rivalry at a cultural or political level. It suggests that the reality is much more complex and that, for rugby union at least, Austral…
Sport as History
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTony CollinsTony Collins, Institute of Northern Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University
Early Football and the Emergence of Modern Soccer, c. 1840–1880
The origins of the modern football codes have attracted considerable attention from historians of sport over the past two decades, resulting in a vigorous debate between the self-described ‘revisionists’, led by Adrian Harvey, and the followers of Eric Dunning, dubbed by their opponents as the ‘orthodox’ view. However, this article argues that both sides commit the same methodological errors: an overestimation of the importance of written rules, …
English Rugby Union and the First World War
The idea that war was a football match writ large was commonly expressed in Britain during the First World War. This article looks at the attitudes and actions of the English Rugby Football Union and its supporters before, during, and after the First World War to examine how such beliefs were utilized by sports organizations and the impact they had on the military and on society as a whole. Rugby union football was viewed both by its supporters a…
Return to manhood
(1999). Return to manhood: the cult of masculinity and the British union of fascists. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 16, Superman Supreme, pp. 145-162
Mud, Sweat and Beers. A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol
Introduction 1 This Sporting House: The Pub and Sport 2 A Thirsty Business: The Drinks Industry and Sport 3 Cheers! Alcohol and the Sporting Crowd 4 A Little of What Does You Good? Alcohol, the Athlete and Sporting Performance Conclusion: More than Beer and Skittles? Bibliography Index
Noa mutton, noa laaking’
History, Theory and the ‘Civilizing Process’
Eric Dunning and Kenneth Sheard, Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 2005). Pp. 310 £70.00 (hb) and £22.99 (pb)...
Australian Nationalism and Working‐Class Britishness
Sport has traditionally been seen as a vehicle for the expression of Australian nationalism. Following W. F. Mandle's work on cricket and nationalism, sporting contests between Australia and England have been portrayed as asserting Australian feelings of independence and hostility to Britain. This article challenges this view by examining the history of rugby league football in Australia and its relationship to Britain. Predominantly working‐clas…
Racial minorities in a marginalized sport
(1998). Racial minorities in a marginalized sport: Race, discrimination and integration in British rugby league football. Immigrants & Minorities: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 151-169
Come Out Swinging
This is rich and fascinating book, one that is both a model of ethnography and an important commentary on the social devastation wrought on America's black communities over the past 30 or so years
Unexceptional exceptionalism
This article explores the origins and early history of American football in relation to the development of rugby and similar codes in the English-speaking world of the last third of the nineteenth century. It suggests that the traditional narrative description of the emergence of the American game – which is ascribed in large part to the individual initiative of Walter Camp – fails to situate the sport in the context of the wider, transnational d…
Amateurism and the Rise of Managerialism
This article explores the complex relationship between English rugby union and coaching since the formation of the Rugby Football Union in 1871. Using archival sources, handbooks, manuals and a wide range of other sources, it traces the evolution of attitudes to coaching, from open opposition to the concept for most of the game's history through to its unashamed embrace of managerialism in the 1990s. It argues that the changes in these attitudes …
The Ambiguities of Amateurism
This paper examines the history of English rugby union football in the period between the 1895 split in the sport and the end of the Edwardian era. It argues that during this period, the RFU's definition of amateurism was constantly being refined and adjusted to take into account the changing fortunes of the game. However, underlying these shifts was a constant desire to create a sport that was fashioned around the needs of young middle-class men…
Noa mutton, noa laaking’
Racial minorities in a marginalized sport
(1998). Racial minorities in a marginalized sport: Race, discrimination and integration in British rugby league football. Immigrants & Minorities: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 151-169
Return to manhood
(1999). Return to manhood: the cult of masculinity and the British union of fascists. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 16, Superman Supreme, pp. 145-162
Mud, Sweat and Beers
Alcohol is never far from sporting events. Although popular thinking on the effects of drinking has changed considerably over time, throughout history sport and alcohol have been intimately linked. The Victorians, for example, believed that beer helped to build stamina, whereas today any serious athlete must abstain from the demon drink. Yet despite current prohibitions and the widespread acceptance of alcohols deleterious effects, the uneasy all…
English Rugby Union and the First World War
The idea that war was a football match writ large was commonly expressed in Britain during the First World War. This article looks at the attitudes and actions of the English Rugby Football Union and its supporters before, during, and after the First World War to examine how such beliefs were utilized by sports organizations and the impact they had on the military and on society as a whole. Rugby union football was viewed both by its supporters a…
Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports
Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times to the present day in all of the United Kingdom and Ireland.This book brings together several distinct types of traditional rural sports with particular emphasis on the social history and 'traditional' aspects. It contains several hundred entries focusing on individual sports and others provi…
History, Theory and the ‘Civilizing Process’
Eric Dunning and Kenneth Sheard, Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 2005). Pp. 310 £70.00 (hb) and £22.99 (pb)...
Australian Nationalism and Working‐Class Britishness
Sport has traditionally been seen as a vehicle for the expression of Australian nationalism. Following W. F. Mandle's work on cricket and nationalism, sporting contests between Australia and England have been portrayed as asserting Australian feelings of independence and hostility to Britain. This article challenges this view by examining the history of rugby league football in Australia and its relationship to Britain. Predominantly working‐clas…
The Ambiguities of Amateurism
This paper examines the history of English rugby union football in the period between the 1895 split in the sport and the end of the Edwardian era. It argues that during this period, the RFU's definition of amateurism was constantly being refined and adjusted to take into account the changing fortunes of the game. However, underlying these shifts was a constant desire to create a sport that was fashioned around the needs of young middle-class men…
Mud, Sweat and Beers. A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol
Introduction 1 This Sporting House: The Pub and Sport 2 A Thirsty Business: The Drinks Industry and Sport 3 Cheers! Alcohol and the Sporting Crowd 4 A Little of What Does You Good? Alcohol, the Athlete and Sporting Performance Conclusion: More than Beer and Skittles? Bibliography Index
Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain
Preface Introduction 1. Rugby League and the First World War 2. League on the Dole? The game in the depression years 3. Masters and Servants: The Professional Player 1919-39 4. Wembley and the Road from Wigan Peir 5. Rugby League in the 'Peoples' War' 6. From Boom to Bust 1945-75 7. 'Chess with Muscles': The Rules of the Game 8. The Kangaroo Connection: Anglo-Australian Rugby League 9. 'Sporting Apartheid': Rugby Union's War against Rugby League …
The Tyranny of Deference
Historians have traditionally viewed sport in Australia as a vehicle for nationalist sentiment. This paper explores the history of Australian rugby union and its relationship with Britain in the first half of the twentieth century to argue against that assumption that sporting rivalry automatically means national rivalry at a cultural or political level. It suggests that the reality is much more complex and that, for rugby union at least, Austral…
Sport as History
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTony CollinsTony Collins, Institute of Northern Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University
Amateurism and the Rise of Managerialism
This article explores the complex relationship between English rugby union and coaching since the formation of the Rugby Football Union in 1871. Using archival sources, handbooks, manuals and a wide range of other sources, it traces the evolution of attitudes to coaching, from open opposition to the concept for most of the game's history through to its unashamed embrace of managerialism in the 1990s. It argues that the changes in these attitudes …
La peur de la pénalité chez le joueur de rugby
L'importance de la pénalité (penalty) dans le rugby à XV trouve son origine dans les classes moyennes anglaises qui conçurent ce sport à l'époque victorienne. Or, ses dirigeants anglais ne souhaitaient pas en général que le rugby se « diffuse » et la crainte de la pénalité, à la fois sur le terrain et en dehors, est devenue l'un de ses traits distinctifs. Cet article montre que le processus d'expansion d'un sport ne se réduit pas à une « diffusio…
This Rugby Spellbound People’
Rugby's Great Split
Since it’s first publication, Rugby’s Great Split has established itself as a classic in the field of sport history. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, this deeply researched and highly readable book traces the social, cultural and economic divisions that led, in 1895, to schism in the game of rugby and the creation of rugby league, the sport of England’s northern working class. Tony Collins’ analysis challenges many of the conventiona…
Sport in Capitalist Society
Why are the Olympic Games the driving force behind a clampdown on civil liberties? What makes sport an unwavering ally of nationalism and militarism? Is sport the new opiate of the masses? These and many other questions are answered in this new radical history of sport by leading historian of sport and society, Professor Tony Collins. Tracing the history of modern sport from its origins in the burgeoning capitalist economy of mid-eighteenth centu…
The King of Brilliance
Unexceptional exceptionalism
This article explores the origins and early history of American football in relation to the development of rugby and similar codes in the English-speaking world of the last third of the nineteenth century. It suggests that the traditional narrative description of the emergence of the American game – which is ascribed in large part to the individual initiative of Walter Camp – fails to situate the sport in the context of the wider, transnational d…
Kevin Jefferys. Sport and Politics in Modern Britain
In Full Bloem. Jamie Bloem – Rugby Footballer
The Rise of the National Basketball Association
The history of professional basketball in the United States has not been well-served by historians of American sport. Whereas baseball overflows with studies of every conceivable era and aspect of
Come Out Swinging
This is rich and fascinating book, one that is both a model of ethnography and an important commentary on the social devastation wrought on America's black communities over the past 30 or so years
Claude Walter Masters, Rugby, Football and the Working Classes in Victorian and Edwardian York
C.W. Masters' book provides a comprehensive view of the development of the football codes, and rugby in particular, in Victorian and Edwardian York. The depth of research and the fact that it roots...
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