Carol Osborne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3921910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Osborne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Osborne |
| SIGNATURE | OSBORNE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Huddersfield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1191-6543 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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Climbing magazines from the 1970s to the 2000s, originating as a product of male-dominated climbing cultures, provide a rich illustrative source for embracing visual methodology. Working as a multidisciplinary collective of four across history, art, sociology, we are using photomontage methods to interrogate the photographic representations, absences and stark invisibility of women and women climbers held within our climbing magazine collection. …
Introduction
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
The British Society of Sports History, c.1982–2022
We reflect here on the history of the British Society of Sports History (BSSH) from its inception in 1982 through to its fortieth anniversary in 2022. The origins of the Society are contextualised with reference to a burgeoning interest in the history of sport and physical education in the 1970s and early 1980s. The BSSH’s development is then considered with reference to its annual conferences, its membership, its publications and its recent init…
Women in sports history
In this piece we broadly reflect upon the progress made in the production and reception of women’s sports history during the past ten years in the UK. In doing so, we argue that the sources generated via interests in the present are likely to have an impact on the future content of women’s sports history. We make our observations about the treatment of women in contemporary sport based upon our respective interactions with media representations, …
Routledge Handbook of Tennis
Sport and amateurism
Amateurism is recognised as an important theme in the history of modern British sport. That it is so often preceded by the word ‘gentlemanly’ is indicative of the way in which most historians have
It’s Good to Talk
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on what appears to be the relatively under-used methodologies associated with oral history – principally the interview as a primary source of data – in the writing of sports history. The observation is acknowledged as one made from a UK perspective, not least on account of the authors’ status as monolingual researchers, albeit from the different but culturally diverse nations of England and Scotland. The po…
Forum
This short introduction reflects upon the relatively improved representation of women in sports history and its historiography. It highlights the similar challenges faced by those researching women in sport and those researching women's history more generally. In addition to identifying the need for more empirical research around female participation in ‘sport’, it notes the importance of moving beyond this conceptual territory to physical cultur…
The State of Play
It is difficult to argue that sport history remains on the periphery of historical research. Rather, it might now be identified as occupying a positive niche position within the broader discipline of ‘history’ itself. In Britain this is largely thanks to the ongoing quality and breadth of publications, including the continued production of journals like this one, which has ensured the discipline's credibility. Yet, in spite of this achievement, i…
Family Matters
Constructing the Self through Memory
It is against blockage between ourselves and others those who are alive and those who are dead that we must work. In blocking off what hurts us, we think we are walling ourselves off from pain. But in the long run the wall, which prevents growth, hurts us more than the pain, which, if we will only bear it, soon passes over us. Washes over us and is gone. Long will we remember pain, but the pain itself, as it was at that point of intensity that ma…
It’s Good to Talk
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on what appears to be the relatively under-used methodologies associated with oral history – principally the interview as a primary source of data – in the writing of sports history. The observation is acknowledged as one made from a UK perspective, not least on account of the authors’ status as monolingual researchers, albeit from the different but culturally diverse nations of England and Scotland. The po…
The State of Play
It is difficult to argue that sport history remains on the periphery of historical research. Rather, it might now be identified as occupying a positive niche position within the broader discipline of ‘history’ itself. In Britain this is largely thanks to the ongoing quality and breadth of publications, including the continued production of journals like this one, which has ensured the discipline's credibility. Yet, in spite of this achievement, i…
Women in sports history
In this piece we broadly reflect upon the progress made in the production and reception of women’s sports history during the past ten years in the UK. In doing so, we argue that the sources generated via interests in the present are likely to have an impact on the future content of women’s sports history. We make our observations about the treatment of women in contemporary sport based upon our respective interactions with media representations, …
Constructing the Self through Memory
It is against blockage between ourselves and others those who are alive and those who are dead that we must work. In blocking off what hurts us, we think we are walling ourselves off from pain. But in the long run the wall, which prevents growth, hurts us more than the pain, which, if we will only bear it, soon passes over us. Washes over us and is gone. Long will we remember pain, but the pain itself, as it was at that point of intensity that ma…
Family Matters
The State of Play
It is difficult to argue that sport history remains on the periphery of historical research. Rather, it might now be identified as occupying a positive niche position within the broader discipline of ‘history’ itself. In Britain this is largely thanks to the ongoing quality and breadth of publications, including the continued production of journals like this one, which has ensured the discipline's credibility. Yet, in spite of this achievement, i…
It’s Good to Talk
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on what appears to be the relatively under-used methodologies associated with oral history – principally the interview as a primary source of data – in the writing of sports history. The observation is acknowledged as one made from a UK perspective, not least on account of the authors’ status as monolingual researchers, albeit from the different but culturally diverse nations of England and Scotland. The po…
Forum
This short introduction reflects upon the relatively improved representation of women in sports history and its historiography. It highlights the similar challenges faced by those researching women in sport and those researching women's history more generally. In addition to identifying the need for more empirical research around female participation in ‘sport’, it notes the importance of moving beyond this conceptual territory to physical cultur…
Sport and amateurism
Amateurism is recognised as an important theme in the history of modern British sport. That it is so often preceded by the word ‘gentlemanly’ is indicative of the way in which most historians have
Routledge Handbook of Tennis
Women in sports history
In this piece we broadly reflect upon the progress made in the production and reception of women’s sports history during the past ten years in the UK. In doing so, we argue that the sources generated via interests in the present are likely to have an impact on the future content of women’s sports history. We make our observations about the treatment of women in contemporary sport based upon our respective interactions with media representations, …
The British Society of Sports History, c.1982–2022
We reflect here on the history of the British Society of Sports History (BSSH) from its inception in 1982 through to its fortieth anniversary in 2022. The origins of the Society are contextualised with reference to a burgeoning interest in the history of sport and physical education in the 1970s and early 1980s. The BSSH’s development is then considered with reference to its annual conferences, its membership, its publications and its recent init…
Introduction
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
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Climbing magazines from the 1970s to the 2000s, originating as a product of male-dominated climbing cultures, provide a rich illustrative source for embracing visual methodology. Working as a multidisciplinary collective of four across history, art, sociology, we are using photomontage methods to interrogate the photographic representations, absences and stark invisibility of women and women climbers held within our climbing magazine collection. …
Political science (8 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (8 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)