Daryl Leeworthy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4787008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daryl Leeworthy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daryl |
| FAMILY NAME | Leeworthy |
| SIGNATURE | LEEWORTHY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9350-9567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain. By Charlotte Greenhalgh
Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880–1939. By Robert Snape
Bristol from Below
Reviewed by: Bristol from Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City by Steve Poole, Nicholas Rodgers Daryl Leeworthy Poole, Steve and Nicholas Rodgers – Bristol from Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2017. Pp. 403. Eighteenth-century Bristol was one of England’s greatest cities. Made wealthy by maritime trade and slavery, as well as its medieval inheritance, it was the most important A…
Playing up to Precarity; Or, the Lost Generation
This article considers the development of an academic precariat and its impact on sport history. It discusses the author’s own experiences as a sport historian and the impact of academic unemployment on a generation of would-be sport historians. It argues that not only is there an academic precariat within sport history but that this is the result of internal and external factors. Externally it reflects the challenges to the academy from market r…
The King’s Cup 1919
Book Review| April 01 2017 The King’s Cup 1919: Rugby’s First “World Cup” Evans, Howard and Phil Atkinson. The King’s Cup 1919: Rugby’s First “World Cup”. Cardiff: St David’s Press, 2015. Pp. xv + 172. Photographs. $39.99, pb. Daryl Leeworthy Daryl Leeworthy Swansea University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2017) 44 (1): 107–108. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.44.1.0107 Cite Icon Cite S…
Before Pride
This article examines the role of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and its youth wing, the Young Communist League (YCL), in the advancement of gay rights in the 1970s and 1980s. Although the CPGB was the first major organization of the British labour movement—and the British left—to advance a policy of gay rights, its participation in the gay liberation movement has tended to be neglected by scholars. In contrast to the general percept…
Moral minefields
We trace the meeting and misalignment of competing moral economies in South Wales during the depression of the 1930s. Our case study is the Save the Children Fund's campaign to open emergency open-air nurseries in distressed communities and we analyse the contested meanings of work, voluntarism and cooperation that arose between charitable enterprises and local political organisers in the area. We also inquire into the attempt of a new generation…
For our common cause
Following the passage of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which partially legalised homosexuality in England and Wales, the campaign for equal rights gained organisational strength across the country, with branches of the Gay Liberation Front and the Campaign for Homosexual Equality being formed in major cities and university towns. This coincided with a decade of radicalism, particularly in the coalfields, where education programmes and a renewed b…
Partisan players
This article argues against the prevalent notion that sport was insignificant to inter-war Welsh labour by showing that it was in fact a 'vital area of interest' for local activists associated with leftist organisations. In South Wales, numerous sporting opportunities provided by the local labour movement were taken up with notable enthusiasm by local workers. It is demonstrated that this represented a 'vibrant attempt to forge a coherent alterna…
The Dragons of the North
The fortunes of Pontypridd Rugby League Club, the most significant attempt to expand rugby league to Wales before the Second World War, have broadly escaped the attention of historians. This article examines the club's history in depth, highlighting the organization of supporters' clubs, junior and senior (amateur) league and cup competitions, and the ties to prevailing sporting culture and the labour movement. Drawing on fresh newspaper and arch…
A Welshman in Halifax
A Diversion from the New Leisure
This article examines the development of greyhound racing in inter-war South Wales and its relationship to the prevailing economic conditions of the coalfield, regional political culture and popular aspiration. Making use of recently recovered archival sources, company records and newspapers, it builds upon existing historical work and argues that greyhound racing gained popularity not only for its commercial novelty and the release it provided f…
The secret life of us
This article adds to the growing literature on 1980s Britain and the 1984–5 miners’ strike. Its purpose is to demonstrate the role of oral history and biography in the writing of more personalised narratives about national events. Throughout the oral testimony that underpins the article, speakers made conscious connections with the past whether through folk memories of earlier industrial action or by building links between their own lives and tho…
The secret life of us
This article adds to the growing literature on 1980s Britain and the 1984–5 miners’ strike. Its purpose is to demonstrate the role of oral history and biography in the writing of more personalised narratives about national events. Throughout the oral testimony that underpins the article, speakers made conscious connections with the past whether through folk memories of earlier industrial action or by building links between their own lives and tho…
Before Pride
This article examines the role of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and its youth wing, the Young Communist League (YCL), in the advancement of gay rights in the 1970s and 1980s. Although the CPGB was the first major organization of the British labour movement—and the British left—to advance a policy of gay rights, its participation in the gay liberation movement has tended to be neglected by scholars. In contrast to the general percept…
For our common cause
Following the passage of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which partially legalised homosexuality in England and Wales, the campaign for equal rights gained organisational strength across the country, with branches of the Gay Liberation Front and the Campaign for Homosexual Equality being formed in major cities and university towns. This coincided with a decade of radicalism, particularly in the coalfields, where education programmes and a renewed b…
A Diversion from the New Leisure
This article examines the development of greyhound racing in inter-war South Wales and its relationship to the prevailing economic conditions of the coalfield, regional political culture and popular aspiration. Making use of recently recovered archival sources, company records and newspapers, it builds upon existing historical work and argues that greyhound racing gained popularity not only for its commercial novelty and the release it provided f…
The Dragons of the North
The fortunes of Pontypridd Rugby League Club, the most significant attempt to expand rugby league to Wales before the Second World War, have broadly escaped the attention of historians. This article examines the club's history in depth, highlighting the organization of supporters' clubs, junior and senior (amateur) league and cup competitions, and the ties to prevailing sporting culture and the labour movement. Drawing on fresh newspaper and arch…
Moral minefields
We trace the meeting and misalignment of competing moral economies in South Wales during the depression of the 1930s. Our case study is the Save the Children Fund's campaign to open emergency open-air nurseries in distressed communities and we analyse the contested meanings of work, voluntarism and cooperation that arose between charitable enterprises and local political organisers in the area. We also inquire into the attempt of a new generation…
A Diversion from the New Leisure
This article examines the development of greyhound racing in inter-war South Wales and its relationship to the prevailing economic conditions of the coalfield, regional political culture and popular aspiration. Making use of recently recovered archival sources, company records and newspapers, it builds upon existing historical work and argues that greyhound racing gained popularity not only for its commercial novelty and the release it provided f…
The secret life of us
This article adds to the growing literature on 1980s Britain and the 1984–5 miners’ strike. Its purpose is to demonstrate the role of oral history and biography in the writing of more personalised narratives about national events. Throughout the oral testimony that underpins the article, speakers made conscious connections with the past whether through folk memories of earlier industrial action or by building links between their own lives and tho…
The Dragons of the North
The fortunes of Pontypridd Rugby League Club, the most significant attempt to expand rugby league to Wales before the Second World War, have broadly escaped the attention of historians. This article examines the club's history in depth, highlighting the organization of supporters' clubs, junior and senior (amateur) league and cup competitions, and the ties to prevailing sporting culture and the labour movement. Drawing on fresh newspaper and arch…
A Welshman in Halifax
Partisan players
This article argues against the prevalent notion that sport was insignificant to inter-war Welsh labour by showing that it was in fact a 'vital area of interest' for local activists associated with leftist organisations. In South Wales, numerous sporting opportunities provided by the local labour movement were taken up with notable enthusiasm by local workers. It is demonstrated that this represented a 'vibrant attempt to forge a coherent alterna…
Moral minefields
We trace the meeting and misalignment of competing moral economies in South Wales during the depression of the 1930s. Our case study is the Save the Children Fund's campaign to open emergency open-air nurseries in distressed communities and we analyse the contested meanings of work, voluntarism and cooperation that arose between charitable enterprises and local political organisers in the area. We also inquire into the attempt of a new generation…
For our common cause
Following the passage of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which partially legalised homosexuality in England and Wales, the campaign for equal rights gained organisational strength across the country, with branches of the Gay Liberation Front and the Campaign for Homosexual Equality being formed in major cities and university towns. This coincided with a decade of radicalism, particularly in the coalfields, where education programmes and a renewed b…
Before Pride
This article examines the role of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and its youth wing, the Young Communist League (YCL), in the advancement of gay rights in the 1970s and 1980s. Although the CPGB was the first major organization of the British labour movement—and the British left—to advance a policy of gay rights, its participation in the gay liberation movement has tended to be neglected by scholars. In contrast to the general percept…
Playing up to Precarity; Or, the Lost Generation
This article considers the development of an academic precariat and its impact on sport history. It discusses the author’s own experiences as a sport historian and the impact of academic unemployment on a generation of would-be sport historians. It argues that not only is there an academic precariat within sport history but that this is the result of internal and external factors. Externally it reflects the challenges to the academy from market r…
The King’s Cup 1919
Book Review| April 01 2017 The King’s Cup 1919: Rugby’s First “World Cup” Evans, Howard and Phil Atkinson. The King’s Cup 1919: Rugby’s First “World Cup”. Cardiff: St David’s Press, 2015. Pp. xv + 172. Photographs. $39.99, pb. Daryl Leeworthy Daryl Leeworthy Swansea University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2017) 44 (1): 107–108. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.44.1.0107 Cite Icon Cite S…
Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain. By Charlotte Greenhalgh
Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880–1939. By Robert Snape
Bristol from Below
Reviewed by: Bristol from Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City by Steve Poole, Nicholas Rodgers Daryl Leeworthy Poole, Steve and Nicholas Rodgers – Bristol from Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2017. Pp. 403. Eighteenth-century Bristol was one of England’s greatest cities. Made wealthy by maritime trade and slavery, as well as its medieval inheritance, it was the most important A…
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