Martin Polley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5133348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Polley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Polley |
| SIGNATURE | POLLEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Fine Solidarity in the Life of the Countryside’: The Ashbees and Sport in the Cotswolds, 1902–1907
Between 1902 and 1907, C.R. and Janet Ashbee ran the Guild of Handicraft from Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, a manufacturing and trade experiment underpinned by utopian ideas. They used sport in the life of the Guild and the wider town in various ways, including the construction of a public swimming pool, the promotion of sports days, and the compilation of sporting songs, while their writings – both public and private – on sport revealed u…
Knitting and the Olympic Games: Clothing, Competition, Culture, and Commerce
This article focuses on the diverse and eclectic ways in which knitting has interacted with the Olympic Games. Using key themes of clothing, competition, culture, and commerce, it explores the historical and contemporary links between the Olympics and knitting. These include a survey of knitted garments for sportswear at the Olympics (Clothing), the presence of competitive knitting at the Wenlock Olympian Games, a forerunner to the modern Olympic…
Introduction: The Empire and Commonwealth Games and the Challenge of History
This is the introduction to a special issue of the journal Sport in Histiry, dedicated to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games. It provides a survey of the event's history and historiography, raises critical questions about the Games, and introduces the articles in the issue
The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies
International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement: The New Mediators
The British Olympics: Britain's Olympic Heritage 1612-2012
Introduction: Britain, Britons and the Olympic Games
As I write, my home town of London is gearing up to holding the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympics. The historical resonances of this occasion are striking. It will be the first time that any city
Drug Games: The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960–2008
Drug Games: The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960–2008, by Thomas M. Hunt, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2011, vii + 217 pp., bibliography, index, £34.00 (hardba
Hampshire and the Olympic Games: A Local History of a Global Event
In 2012, London will become the first city to host the summer Olympic games for a third time. However, not all of the events will be confined to London: geographical necessities will shift the sailing and rowing events away from the capital, and political expedience will take the football to Cardiff, Coventry, Glasgow, Manchester, and Newcastle. In such a context, it is instructive to look at the 1908 and the 1948 Olympic games to see how far the…
Was Sport and the British a Foundational Text? The View of the Next Generation
This article is a personal response to Richard Holt's Sport and the British: a modern history, on the 21st anniversary of its publication
The Archive of the Feet”: Field Walking in Sports History
This article makes a case for sports historians to use fieldwalking as a methodology, and suggests a variety of influences - from heritage, local history, military history, and the flâneur tradition - that can be drawn on to make connections between sport and landscape. It uses a case study of the route of the 1908 Olympic Marathon
Football: The First Hundred Years - The Untold Story
The Amateur Ideal and British Sports Diplomacy, 1900–1945
Traditionally, governments working within liberal democratic traditions have been wary of intervening in sport. This has contrasted with the sports policies of governments from other traditions, with Communist and fascist governments in particular taking a more direct approach and developing links between physical culture and their wider ideologies. Using sports diplomacy as a case study, this chapter explores some of the ways in which amateurism…
The amateur rules’: Amateurism and professionalism in post‐war British athletics
(2000). ‘The amateur rules’: Amateurism and professionalism in post‐war British athletics. Contemporary British History: Vol. 14, Amateurs and Professionals in Post-War British Sport, pp. 81-114
Moving the Goalposts: A history of sport and society since 1945
Martin Polley provides a survey of sport in Britain since 1945 and examines sport's place in British culture. He discusses issues of class, gender, race, commerce and politics, as well as analysing contemporary sport
No business of ours: The foreign office and the olympic games, 1896–1914
Olympic diplomacy: The British government and the projected 1940 Olympic games
(1992). Olympic diplomacy: the British government and the projected 1940 Olympic games. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 169-187
Olympic diplomacy: The British government and the projected 1940 Olympic games
(1992). Olympic diplomacy: the British government and the projected 1940 Olympic games. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 169-187
No business of ours: The foreign office and the olympic games, 1896–1914
International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement: The New Mediators
The Archive of the Feet”: Field Walking in Sports History
This article makes a case for sports historians to use fieldwalking as a methodology, and suggests a variety of influences - from heritage, local history, military history, and the flâneur tradition - that can be drawn on to make connections between sport and landscape. It uses a case study of the route of the 1908 Olympic Marathon
The Amateur Ideal and British Sports Diplomacy, 1900–1945
Traditionally, governments working within liberal democratic traditions have been wary of intervening in sport. This has contrasted with the sports policies of governments from other traditions, with Communist and fascist governments in particular taking a more direct approach and developing links between physical culture and their wider ideologies. Using sports diplomacy as a case study, this chapter explores some of the ways in which amateurism…
Introduction: The Empire and Commonwealth Games and the Challenge of History
This is the introduction to a special issue of the journal Sport in Histiry, dedicated to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games. It provides a survey of the event's history and historiography, raises critical questions about the Games, and introduces the articles in the issue
Football: The First Hundred Years - The Untold Story
Olympic diplomacy: The British government and the projected 1940 Olympic games
(1992). Olympic diplomacy: the British government and the projected 1940 Olympic games. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 169-187
No business of ours: The foreign office and the olympic games, 1896–1914
Moving the Goalposts: A history of sport and society since 1945
Martin Polley provides a survey of sport in Britain since 1945 and examines sport's place in British culture. He discusses issues of class, gender, race, commerce and politics, as well as analysing contemporary sport
The amateur rules’: Amateurism and professionalism in post‐war British athletics
(2000). ‘The amateur rules’: Amateurism and professionalism in post‐war British athletics. Contemporary British History: Vol. 14, Amateurs and Professionals in Post-War British Sport, pp. 81-114
The Amateur Ideal and British Sports Diplomacy, 1900–1945
Traditionally, governments working within liberal democratic traditions have been wary of intervening in sport. This has contrasted with the sports policies of governments from other traditions, with Communist and fascist governments in particular taking a more direct approach and developing links between physical culture and their wider ideologies. Using sports diplomacy as a case study, this chapter explores some of the ways in which amateurism…
Football: The First Hundred Years - The Untold Story
The Archive of the Feet”: Field Walking in Sports History
This article makes a case for sports historians to use fieldwalking as a methodology, and suggests a variety of influences - from heritage, local history, military history, and the flâneur tradition - that can be drawn on to make connections between sport and landscape. It uses a case study of the route of the 1908 Olympic Marathon
Was Sport and the British a Foundational Text? The View of the Next Generation
This article is a personal response to Richard Holt's Sport and the British: a modern history, on the 21st anniversary of its publication
The British Olympics: Britain's Olympic Heritage 1612-2012
Introduction: Britain, Britons and the Olympic Games
As I write, my home town of London is gearing up to holding the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympics. The historical resonances of this occasion are striking. It will be the first time that any city
Drug Games: The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960–2008
Drug Games: The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960–2008, by Thomas M. Hunt, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2011, vii + 217 pp., bibliography, index, £34.00 (hardba
Hampshire and the Olympic Games: A Local History of a Global Event
In 2012, London will become the first city to host the summer Olympic games for a third time. However, not all of the events will be confined to London: geographical necessities will shift the sailing and rowing events away from the capital, and political expedience will take the football to Cardiff, Coventry, Glasgow, Manchester, and Newcastle. In such a context, it is instructive to look at the 1908 and the 1948 Olympic games to see how far the…
The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies
International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement: The New Mediators
Knitting and the Olympic Games: Clothing, Competition, Culture, and Commerce
This article focuses on the diverse and eclectic ways in which knitting has interacted with the Olympic Games. Using key themes of clothing, competition, culture, and commerce, it explores the historical and contemporary links between the Olympics and knitting. These include a survey of knitted garments for sportswear at the Olympics (Clothing), the presence of competitive knitting at the Wenlock Olympian Games, a forerunner to the modern Olympic…
Introduction: The Empire and Commonwealth Games and the Challenge of History
This is the introduction to a special issue of the journal Sport in Histiry, dedicated to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games. It provides a survey of the event's history and historiography, raises critical questions about the Games, and introduces the articles in the issue
A Fine Solidarity in the Life of the Countryside’: The Ashbees and Sport in the Cotswolds, 1902–1907
Between 1902 and 1907, C.R. and Janet Ashbee ran the Guild of Handicraft from Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, a manufacturing and trade experiment underpinned by utopian ideas. They used sport in the life of the Guild and the wider town in various ways, including the construction of a public swimming pool, the promotion of sports days, and the compilation of sporting songs, while their writings – both public and private – on sport revealed u…
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