Dilwyn Porter
Biographic Data
| ID | 4459895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dilwyn Porter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dilwyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Porter |
| SIGNATURE | PORTER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Montfort University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Drill, physical exercises, and outdoor games in English elementary schools, c.1870–1902, with particular reference to Birmingham
This article focuses on the development of physical education, broadly defined, for children in elementary schools in the late nineteenth century, with particular reference to the city of Birmingham, England. From 1871, schools were encouraged to incorporate military drill into the taught curriculum for children aged three to thirteen. Later, other forms of physical exercise were permitted and these were actively developed and promoted by the Bir…
The Most Famous Amateur Football Club in the World’: Creating and Curating the Corinthian Brand
Corinthian FC (1882–1938) was one of the world's most famous football clubs, despite never winning a league championship or a cup competition. At a time when association football, especially in Britain, was establishing itself as a form of commercialised entertainment with clubs organised as businesses and employing working‐class professionals, the Corinthians became the principal standard‐bearers for gentlemanly amateurism, effectively creating …
Association Football and English Society, 1863-1915 (revised edition)
Association football, as it developed rapidly in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, both reflected British society and helped to reshape it. In this newly released edition of Tony Mason’s essential account of the game’s rise, focusing on issues such as the amateur–professional divide, social class and mass spectatorship are seen as fundamental to our understanding of what is now a global phenomenon. Dilwyn Porter supplements this …
Money for nothing and kicks for free? – Aspects of the long-term relationship between sport and gambling in Britain
The intention here is to trace the development of the sport-gambling nexus in Britain from the early-nineteenth to the late-twentieth century. An overview of this kind facilitates an understanding of a relationship that has often been characterized as symbiotic. Over the long run, as Britain has transitioned from a pre-industrial to an industrial and then to a post-industrial society, the relationship between sport and gambling has remained intac…
The British Society of Sports History, c.1982–2022: Some reflections
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…
The lost years of Reading FC
Club histories, with some exceptions, are written by fans for fans. More often than not they are unreflective chronicles rather than reflective histories. They tend to frustrate researchers seeking
Soccer in Munster: A Social History, 1877-1937
The long shadow cast by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) which has obscured our view of other sports played in modern Ireland is at last receding and for this we should be grateful. This is no
Opportunistic, Parasitic, Strategic, Symbiotic: Entrepreneurship and the Business of Sport
Stephen Hardy’s tripartite sports product (1986), as subsequently refined by George Sage (2004) and recently reconfigured by Wray Vamplew (2018), remains the starting point for any study of entrepreneurship in and around sport. Recent work in business history, especially Daniel Wadhwani and Christina Lubinski’s advocacy of ‘new entrepreneurial history’ (2017), also has implications for sports historians. These perspectives are crucial for identif…
Entrepreneurship, Sport, and History: An Overview
Entrepreneurs and what they do have long been assigned a central role in explaining economic change and growth. Classical and neoclassical economists viewed the economy as a self-regulating mechani
Sport and National Identity
This chapter explores the role of sport in the construction of national identity. It focuses initially on sport as a cultural practice possessing the demonstrable capacity to generate events and experiences through which imagined communities are made real. The governments of nation-states or other political agencies might intervene directly in this process, using sport as a form of propaganda to achieve this effect. More often, however, the relat…
Transnational connectivity, cultural interaction and selective adaptation: English Corinthians and amateur football in the Netherlands, c .1906–39
The Corinthians were synonymous with gentlemanly amateurism in English association football. They visited the Netherlands in 1906, 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1933, bringing not just a particular way of playing the game but their own socially-exclusive version of amateurism. This had significant appeal in the Netherlands, where soccer had been taken up in the late nineteenth century by middle-class young men for whom English sport signified modernity. I…
England and the 1966 World Cup: A Cultural History, by John Hughson
Fifty years have passed since England beat West Germany at Wembley to win the FIFA World Cup in 1966. The anniversary in July 2016 prompted an avalanche of nostalgia, in print, on television and on
The People's Game: Football, State and Society in East Germany
They may be thinner on the ground than they once were but there are some academics, even some historians, who consider the history of sport to be of marginal significance. If sports historians shou
In a Class of Their Own: A History of English Amateur Football
In a Class of Their Own: A History of English Amateur Football." The International Journal of the History of Sport, 33(3), pp. 359–360
Whistling his Way to Wembley: Percy Harper of Stourbridge, Cup Final Referee
Percy Harper (1892–1954) is best remembered for awarding a controversial goal which helped Newcastle United achieve victory over Arsenal in the FA Cup Final of 1932. That Harper was selected to take charge of the most important match of the English season indicated that he was among the elite of soccer referees. Letters and other papers assembled by Harper are used here to shed light on his career and on the pressures to which he was exposed in t…
Pleasure Boating on the Thames: A History of Salter Brothers 1858–Present Day
The business history of sport is relatively undeveloped, especially in relation to the history of the firm. For this reason alone, Simon Wenham's study of Salter Brothers is welcome, even though th
The Media and Financial Crises: Comparative and Historical Perspectives
Since what has been referred to as ‘the first crisis of globalization’ manifested itself in 2008, financial journalism, in its various forms, has come under intense scrutiny. Practitioners have bee
Amateurs and Professionals in Post-War British Sport
The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed Britain's sports. At the end of the 20th century sports have been packaged and marketed as mass entertainment for a national or even international audience. This volume explores different facets of this phenomenon
Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance: America at the Olympics
Of the eight key chapters that comprise this book, four are original and four are revised versions of articles previously published in the Journal of Sport History and Olympika. The collection as i
The Cambridge Companion to Football
There is something endearingly old-fashioned about the idea of a Companion to Football. One imagines a reader – temporarily denied the pleasures of playing or watching – turning to a well-thumbed v
Sport in Ireland 1600–1840
Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World
What is the relationship between sport and national identity? What can sport tell us about changing perceptions of national identity? Bringing together the work of established historians and younger commentators, this illuminating text surveys the last half-century, giving due attention to the place of sport in our social and political history. It Includes studies of: · English football and British decline · Englishness and sport · Ethnicity and …
Sport in Australian National Identity: Kicking Goals
Tony Ward, Sport in Australian National Identity: Kicking Goals (London: Routledge, 2010). Pp. 200, £29.99 (pb), ISBN 978-0-415-57555-3 Australians like to see themselves as a sporting nation, and
Sport and the Cornish: Difference and identity on the English periphery in the twentieth century
Cornwall differs from other English counties, not least because a significant percentage of those who live there self-identify as ‘Cornish’ rather than ‘English’ or British'. Sport has helped to underpin ‘the persistence of difference’. Distinctive versions of hurling and wrestling were key signifiers in this respect. In addition, Cornwall developed a particular affinity for rugby, similar to that found in Wales. In the late twentieth century, wi…
The Cambridge Companion to Cricket
Association Football and English Society, 1863-1915 (revised edition)
Association football, as it developed rapidly in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, both reflected British society and helped to reshape it. In this newly released edition of Tony Mason’s essential account of the game’s rise, focusing on issues such as the amateur–professional divide, social class and mass spectatorship are seen as fundamental to our understanding of what is now a global phenomenon. Dilwyn Porter supplements this …
A Trusted Guide of the Investing Public’: Harry Marks and the Financial News 1884–1916
(1986). ‘A Trusted Guide of the Investing Public’: Harry Marks and the Financial News 1884–1916. Business History: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 1-17
The Media and Financial Crises: Comparative and Historical Perspectives
Since what has been referred to as ‘the first crisis of globalization’ manifested itself in 2008, financial journalism, in its various forms, has come under intense scrutiny. Practitioners have bee
City editors and the modern investing public: Establishing the integrity of the new financial journalism in late nineteenth‐century London
Political football: Moscow Dynamo in Britain, 1945
(1997). Political football: Moscow Dynamo in Britain, 1945. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 100-121
Entrepreneurship, Sport, and History: An Overview
Entrepreneurs and what they do have long been assigned a central role in explaining economic change and growth. Classical and neoclassical economists viewed the economy as a self-regulating mechani
Egg and Chips with the Connellys: Remembering 1966
More than 40 years have passed since England beat West Germany to win FIFA's World Cup in 1966 yet this singular historical event remains with us, securely embedded in English popular culture and revisited by the media whenever occasion justifies. References to it are so frequent and so ubiquitous that they have become banal yet powerful signifiers of English national identity. It is argued here that the folk memory of 1966 is also shaped by the …
Opportunistic, Parasitic, Strategic, Symbiotic: Entrepreneurship and the Business of Sport
Stephen Hardy’s tripartite sports product (1986), as subsequently refined by George Sage (2004) and recently reconfigured by Wray Vamplew (2018), remains the starting point for any study of entrepreneurship in and around sport. Recent work in business history, especially Daniel Wadhwani and Christina Lubinski’s advocacy of ‘new entrepreneurial history’ (2017), also has implications for sports historians. These perspectives are crucial for identif…
Sport and the Cornish: Difference and identity on the English periphery in the twentieth century
Cornwall differs from other English counties, not least because a significant percentage of those who live there self-identify as ‘Cornish’ rather than ‘English’ or British'. Sport has helped to underpin ‘the persistence of difference’. Distinctive versions of hurling and wrestling were key signifiers in this respect. In addition, Cornwall developed a particular affinity for rugby, similar to that found in Wales. In the late twentieth century, wi…
Revenge of the Crouch End Vampires: The AFA, the FA and English Football's ‘Great Split’, 1907–14
When the Football Association legalized professionalism in 1885 it unleashed commercial forces that progressively eroded the influence of gentleman amateurs on the English game. Self-appointed custodians of amateurism fought a long rearguard action against these developments. This culminated in a crisis in the FA's affairs and the secession in 1907 of a large number of amateur clubs, mainly based in London and the south-east. These clubs played u…
England's World Turned Upside Down? Magical Magyars and British Football
Amateur football in England, 1948–63: The Pegasus phenomenon
(2000). Amateur football in England, 1948–63: The Pegasus phenomenon. Contemporary British History: Vol. 14, Amateurs and Professionals in Post-War British Sport, pp. 1-30
A Trusted Guide of the Investing Public’: Harry Marks and the Financial News 1884–1916
(1986). ‘A Trusted Guide of the Investing Public’: Harry Marks and the Financial News 1884–1916. Business History: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 1-17
The Attlee Years Re-assessed
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Political football: Moscow Dynamo in Britain, 1945
(1997). Political football: Moscow Dynamo in Britain, 1945. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 100-121
City editors and the modern investing public: Establishing the integrity of the new financial journalism in late nineteenth‐century London
Amateur football in England, 1948–63: The Pegasus phenomenon
(2000). Amateur football in England, 1948–63: The Pegasus phenomenon. Contemporary British History: Vol. 14, Amateurs and Professionals in Post-War British Sport, pp. 1-30
The Match of the Century’: George Robb Interviewed
England's World Turned Upside Down? Magical Magyars and British Football
City Slickers' in Perspective: The Daily Mirror , its readers and their money, 1960-2000
(2003). 'City Slickers' in Perspective: The Daily Mirror , its readers and their money, 1960-2000. Media History: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 137-152
Revenge of the Crouch End Vampires: The AFA, the FA and English Football's ‘Great Split’, 1907–14
When the Football Association legalized professionalism in 1885 it unleashed commercial forces that progressively eroded the influence of gentleman amateurs on the English game. Self-appointed custodians of amateurism fought a long rearguard action against these developments. This culminated in a crisis in the FA's affairs and the secession in 1907 of a large number of amateur clubs, mainly based in London and the south-east. These clubs played u…
Egg and Chips with the Connellys: Remembering 1966
More than 40 years have passed since England beat West Germany to win FIFA's World Cup in 1966 yet this singular historical event remains with us, securely embedded in English popular culture and revisited by the media whenever occasion justifies. References to it are so frequent and so ubiquitous that they have become banal yet powerful signifiers of English national identity. It is argued here that the folk memory of 1966 is also shaped by the …
Sports History and Modern British History
Martin Daunton, Wealth and Welfare: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1851–1951 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). Pp. xv + 656. £29.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-198-73209-9. Juliet Gardiner
The Cambridge Companion to Cricket
Cricket and Broadcasting – By Jack Williams
Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World
What is the relationship between sport and national identity? What can sport tell us about changing perceptions of national identity? Bringing together the work of established historians and younger commentators, this illuminating text surveys the last half-century, giving due attention to the place of sport in our social and political history. It Includes studies of: · English football and British decline · Englishness and sport · Ethnicity and …
Sport in Australian National Identity: Kicking Goals
Tony Ward, Sport in Australian National Identity: Kicking Goals (London: Routledge, 2010). Pp. 200, £29.99 (pb), ISBN 978-0-415-57555-3 Australians like to see themselves as a sporting nation, and
Sport and the Cornish: Difference and identity on the English periphery in the twentieth century
Cornwall differs from other English counties, not least because a significant percentage of those who live there self-identify as ‘Cornish’ rather than ‘English’ or British'. Sport has helped to underpin ‘the persistence of difference’. Distinctive versions of hurling and wrestling were key signifiers in this respect. In addition, Cornwall developed a particular affinity for rugby, similar to that found in Wales. In the late twentieth century, wi…
Amateurs and Professionals in Post-War British Sport
The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed Britain's sports. At the end of the 20th century sports have been packaged and marketed as mass entertainment for a national or even international audience. This volume explores different facets of this phenomenon
Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance: America at the Olympics
Of the eight key chapters that comprise this book, four are original and four are revised versions of articles previously published in the Journal of Sport History and Olympika. The collection as i
The Cambridge Companion to Football
There is something endearingly old-fashioned about the idea of a Companion to Football. One imagines a reader – temporarily denied the pleasures of playing or watching – turning to a well-thumbed v
Sport in Ireland 1600–1840
Whistling his Way to Wembley: Percy Harper of Stourbridge, Cup Final Referee
Percy Harper (1892–1954) is best remembered for awarding a controversial goal which helped Newcastle United achieve victory over Arsenal in the FA Cup Final of 1932. That Harper was selected to take charge of the most important match of the English season indicated that he was among the elite of soccer referees. Letters and other papers assembled by Harper are used here to shed light on his career and on the pressures to which he was exposed in t…
Pleasure Boating on the Thames: A History of Salter Brothers 1858–Present Day
The business history of sport is relatively undeveloped, especially in relation to the history of the firm. For this reason alone, Simon Wenham's study of Salter Brothers is welcome, even though th
The Media and Financial Crises: Comparative and Historical Perspectives
Since what has been referred to as ‘the first crisis of globalization’ manifested itself in 2008, financial journalism, in its various forms, has come under intense scrutiny. Practitioners have bee
The People's Game: Football, State and Society in East Germany
They may be thinner on the ground than they once were but there are some academics, even some historians, who consider the history of sport to be of marginal significance. If sports historians shou
In a Class of Their Own: A History of English Amateur Football
In a Class of Their Own: A History of English Amateur Football." The International Journal of the History of Sport, 33(3), pp. 359–360
History (29 works) · History (25 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (25 works) · Political science (24 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (24 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Law (18 works) · Art (15 works) · Media studies (15 works) · Law (14 works)