Jean Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 5803707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Montfort University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3444-4956 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Valuable Talisman
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) men’s World Cup was already 36 years old, and in its eighth edition before it got its first official mascot, World Cup Willie, a hirsute biped lion with a Beatle’s haircut and a Union Flag waistcoat. Childhood itself had become more globally commercialized by the time the FA in England launched the concept of an official emblem aimed at merchandising football for children and adolescent…
MRV hosts the queen
Mary Russell Vick OBE (1922–2012) first came to fame as a prolific goalscorer for the England women's hockey team after selection in 1947, and later an indomitable sports leader. Methodologically, this article incorporates oral history sources from her daughters Christabel, Susan and Rosemary, combined with written sources left by Mary Russell Vick (MRV) at Bath University and at The Hockey Museum (THM) Woking. These mixed sources provide family …
We’re the lassies from Lancashire’
The FA banned women’s football from the grounds of Association-affiliated clubs in 1921, on the grounds that the organisation perceived that football was ‘unsuitable’ for women and too much money raised for charity had been absorbed in player expenses. But women continued to play. This article analyses how Manchester Corinthians Ladies Football Club, which had been formed in 1949, was able to sustain a varied range of overseas tours and domestic …
Upfront and onside
Published in Upfront and Onside Women, Football, History and Heritage, Special Edition of Sport in History
Introduction to the second special edition of upfront and onside
While the first special edition dedicated to women’s football came out at the beginning of the Women’s World Cup 2019 tournament, held in France, this second edition is released as the legacy of that tournament is being debated. FIFA is a janus-faced institution. It both governs and develops world soccer. Many analysts think that the governance and developmental roles should be separated because the organisaton has proven that it lacks transparen…
Sporting reunions, contemporary collections and collective biographies
This article centres on a reunion held at the National Football Museum in 2018 of women football players active before 1993, particularly the England team for the unofficial Women's World Cup in 1971. After outlining the organisation of the tournament, the experience of the three youngest England players is articulated using oral history case studies. Finally the argument suggests that social strategies, such as reunions, enable a degree of remin…
Tri-ang Strong Toys’
This article explores the confluence of British motor sport, toy car manufacture and leisure during the period from 1919 to 1939. Mass-production toy-making had been bound up with the manufacture of sporting and fancy goods from the middle of the nineteenth century onwards. Motorised transport benefitted from many of the same practices and light engineering techniques honed in cycle manufacture. The fashionable Brooklands circuit was established …
Women, Football and History
This paper provides an overview of a collection of works related to women and football from international perspectives. After a general discursive introduction, the material discussed has its emphasis on studies connected to women and football that occur outside the locus of established scholarship. In particular, it is noted that the works concentrate on the geographic locations of New Zealand, Australia and the USA, and four major football code…
Given the Boot
The robust design of the mass-produced British football boot from the late nineteenth century onwards appeared to evolve rather slowly compared with subsequent lightweight, flexible ‘continental’ fabrication. However, with careful reading we can identify considerable overlap and influence between manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Boot and shoe manufacturing was an intensely competitive industry and it was in the interests of entrepreneur…
Sport and Its Female Fans
Fandom has to be one of the most over-written and least understood topics in academic sports writing. Given the impetus of government interest in hooliganism begun by the Thatcher regime, academic
Representing Self, Community and Nation
The beginnings of British Empire sports in 1911 were soon followed by the increased recognition of female athletes at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games with the swimming gold medal won by the British 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay team (Isabella Moore of Scotland, Irene Steer of Wales, Annie Spiers and Jennie Fletcher of England). The first British Empire Games were held in Hamilton, Ontario Province in Canada from 16 to 23 August 1930 and were a …
From Sportswear to Leisurewear
The football shirt is of iconic significance, defining a club's visual identity through its role as sporting uniform and fan identifier, providing a canvas for commercial interactions and increasingly acting as the focus of nostalgia and collector culture. In this article we focus on the football shirt's extension from sportswear to a replica product worn as cross-generational leisurewear. We first consider how a replica's authenticity, its princ…
The History of Motor Sport
This collection is a welcome introductory volume on motor sport; mainly exploring car racing but also acknowledging continuities with motor cycle and ‘light car’ or three-wheel vehicle competitions
Kit
This is an introductory essay for the special edition of Sport in History entitled ‘Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body’. As well as giving an overview of the six articles in the collection, the introduction seeks to give an overview of sport and dress history. It then raises questions of the intersection of national style, costume history and sporting fashion as active and leisurewear
The Grads Are Playing Tonight! The Story of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Club
As might be expected from the pioneering author M. Ann Hall, this is an important book that will provide the template for the collective biography of many sports teams across a variety of codes. As
Sport, History, and Heritage
Fighting the Current
Lisa Bier, Fighting the Current: The Rise of American Women's Swimming 1870–1926 (Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, 2011). 214 pp., notes and bibliography, index, 25 black and white ph
The Most Important Photograph in the History of Women's Olympic Participation
When Charlotte Cooper, a tennis player, won Britain's first women's gold medal at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900, she was part of a middle-class amateur tradition. Jennie Fletcher (1890–1968) was a very different sporting hero. She won a bronze medal in the 100m freestyle event (Britain's first individual Olympic female swimming medal) at the Stockholm Games in 1912. Fletcher was also part of the gold-winning team in the 4×100m freestyle rela…
The Lady Footballers
The Lady Footballers: Struggling to Play in Victorian Britain, by James F. Lee, London and New York, Routledge, first published in 2008, transferred to digital publishing 2010, iv + 137 pp., notes
Frisky and Bitchy
This work begins with a brief biographical overview of the career of bridge player and writer Rixi Markus (1910–1992). To a lesser extent, it gives an account of her sometime partner Fritzi Gordon (1916–1992). Following the naturalization of both women in 1950, and together known as ‘Frisky and Bitchy’, they were to become widely acknowledged as the strongest women's partnership in world bridge in the years between 1951 and 1976. In the memoir A …
A Social History of English Rugby Union
Book Review| April 01 2010 A Social History of English Rugby Union Collins, Tony. A Social History of English Rugby Union. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, 2009. Pp. 288. Notes, illustrations, appendices, and index. £19.99 hb. Jean Williams Jean Williams De Montfort University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2010) 37 (1): 160–161. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.37.1.160 Cite Icon Cite Share Ic…
The Curious Mystery of the Cotswold ‘Olimpick’ Games
The first half of this article looks at the period 1612 to 1642, when Robert Dover reinvented the existing Cotswold Games as annual ‘Olimpick’ celebrations of sport and, to an extent, culture. The second section reviews subsequent published editions of the Annalia Dubrensia, a collection of poems written in celebration of the games and first published by Dover in 1636. Examining the changing meaning of the Annalia as a text is intended to critiqu…
The fastest growing sport? women's football in England
Britain pioneered the first phase of football's popularity among women during, and shortly after, the First World War. The English Football Association found this threat to the idea of football as a game for men sufficiently serious to ban women's football in 1921. Shortly after the ban was lifted, over five decades later, the Sex Discrimination Act of 1975 was drafted with the intention of exempting professional football from advances in female …
Psychosocial Influences on Central and Peripheral Vision and Reaction Time During Demanding Tasks
We examined perceptual deficits hypothesized in a model of stress and injury relationships. An ophthalmologic perimeter was used to measure peripheral and central vision during baseline and demanding task situations for 201 intercollegiate athletes from 10 sports. We conducted analyses of covariance with the stress measures as dependent variables and their appropriate baseline measures as covariates. Performance under demanding tasks deteriorated…
Positive states of mind and athletic injury risk
Horowitz, Adler, and Kegeles recently developed the Positive States of Mind (PSOM) scale to assess the ability to achieve desirable states of mind. According to a stress and injury model, a theoretical foundation exists for the PSOM being used to predict vulnerability to athletic injuries. In the first study, 277 collegiate athletes from 10 sports completed the PSOM. The scale showed good internal consistency; Cronbach's alpha was .77 for the six…
The fastest growing sport? women's football in England
Britain pioneered the first phase of football's popularity among women during, and shortly after, the First World War. The English Football Association found this threat to the idea of football as a game for men sufficiently serious to ban women's football in 1921. Shortly after the ban was lifted, over five decades later, the Sex Discrimination Act of 1975 was drafted with the intention of exempting professional football from advances in female …
Women, Football and History
This paper provides an overview of a collection of works related to women and football from international perspectives. After a general discursive introduction, the material discussed has its emphasis on studies connected to women and football that occur outside the locus of established scholarship. In particular, it is noted that the works concentrate on the geographic locations of New Zealand, Australia and the USA, and four major football code…
A developmental attributional analysis of sex role stereotypes for sport performance
Upfront and onside
Published in Upfront and Onside Women, Football, History and Heritage, Special Edition of Sport in History
Sporting reunions, contemporary collections and collective biographies
This article centres on a reunion held at the National Football Museum in 2018 of women football players active before 1993, particularly the England team for the unofficial Women's World Cup in 1971. After outlining the organisation of the tournament, the experience of the three youngest England players is articulated using oral history case studies. Finally the argument suggests that social strategies, such as reunions, enable a degree of remin…
Given the Boot
The robust design of the mass-produced British football boot from the late nineteenth century onwards appeared to evolve rather slowly compared with subsequent lightweight, flexible ‘continental’ fabrication. However, with careful reading we can identify considerable overlap and influence between manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Boot and shoe manufacturing was an intensely competitive industry and it was in the interests of entrepreneur…
From Sportswear to Leisurewear
The football shirt is of iconic significance, defining a club's visual identity through its role as sporting uniform and fan identifier, providing a canvas for commercial interactions and increasingly acting as the focus of nostalgia and collector culture. In this article we focus on the football shirt's extension from sportswear to a replica product worn as cross-generational leisurewear. We first consider how a replica's authenticity, its princ…
Kit
This is an introductory essay for the special edition of Sport in History entitled ‘Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body’. As well as giving an overview of the six articles in the collection, the introduction seeks to give an overview of sport and dress history. It then raises questions of the intersection of national style, costume history and sporting fashion as active and leisurewear
The Curious Mystery of the Cotswold ‘Olimpick’ Games
The first half of this article looks at the period 1612 to 1642, when Robert Dover reinvented the existing Cotswold Games as annual ‘Olimpick’ celebrations of sport and, to an extent, culture. The second section reviews subsequent published editions of the Annalia Dubrensia, a collection of poems written in celebration of the games and first published by Dover in 1636. Examining the changing meaning of the Annalia as a text is intended to critiqu…
A developmental attributional analysis of sex role stereotypes for sport performance
Sex-role orientation and athletic administration
Effects of Life-Event Stress on Anxiety and Peripheral Narrowing
This study examined one of the mechanisms proposed to be behind the relationship between life stress and injury. Past researchers have identified a correlation between high life stress and athletic injury for contact and noncontact sports and for male and female athletes, but they did not investigate why athletes who experienced stress from life events were more prone to injury than those whose lives were low in stressful events. The authors test…
Positive states of mind and athletic injury risk
Horowitz, Adler, and Kegeles recently developed the Positive States of Mind (PSOM) scale to assess the ability to achieve desirable states of mind. According to a stress and injury model, a theoretical foundation exists for the PSOM being used to predict vulnerability to athletic injuries. In the first study, 277 collegiate athletes from 10 sports completed the PSOM. The scale showed good internal consistency; Cronbach's alpha was .77 for the six…
Psychosocial Influences on Central and Peripheral Vision and Reaction Time During Demanding Tasks
We examined perceptual deficits hypothesized in a model of stress and injury relationships. An ophthalmologic perimeter was used to measure peripheral and central vision during baseline and demanding task situations for 201 intercollegiate athletes from 10 sports. We conducted analyses of covariance with the stress measures as dependent variables and their appropriate baseline measures as covariates. Performance under demanding tasks deteriorated…
The fastest growing sport? women's football in England
Britain pioneered the first phase of football's popularity among women during, and shortly after, the First World War. The English Football Association found this threat to the idea of football as a game for men sufficiently serious to ban women's football in 1921. Shortly after the ban was lifted, over five decades later, the Sex Discrimination Act of 1975 was drafted with the intention of exempting professional football from advances in female …
The Curious Mystery of the Cotswold ‘Olimpick’ Games
The first half of this article looks at the period 1612 to 1642, when Robert Dover reinvented the existing Cotswold Games as annual ‘Olimpick’ celebrations of sport and, to an extent, culture. The second section reviews subsequent published editions of the Annalia Dubrensia, a collection of poems written in celebration of the games and first published by Dover in 1636. Examining the changing meaning of the Annalia as a text is intended to critiqu…
Frisky and Bitchy
This work begins with a brief biographical overview of the career of bridge player and writer Rixi Markus (1910–1992). To a lesser extent, it gives an account of her sometime partner Fritzi Gordon (1916–1992). Following the naturalization of both women in 1950, and together known as ‘Frisky and Bitchy’, they were to become widely acknowledged as the strongest women's partnership in world bridge in the years between 1951 and 1976. In the memoir A …
A Social History of English Rugby Union
Book Review| April 01 2010 A Social History of English Rugby Union Collins, Tony. A Social History of English Rugby Union. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, 2009. Pp. 288. Notes, illustrations, appendices, and index. £19.99 hb. Jean Williams Jean Williams De Montfort University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2010) 37 (1): 160–161. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.37.1.160 Cite Icon Cite Share Ic…
Sport, History, and Heritage
Fighting the Current
Lisa Bier, Fighting the Current: The Rise of American Women's Swimming 1870–1926 (Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, 2011). 214 pp., notes and bibliography, index, 25 black and white ph
The Most Important Photograph in the History of Women's Olympic Participation
When Charlotte Cooper, a tennis player, won Britain's first women's gold medal at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900, she was part of a middle-class amateur tradition. Jennie Fletcher (1890–1968) was a very different sporting hero. She won a bronze medal in the 100m freestyle event (Britain's first individual Olympic female swimming medal) at the Stockholm Games in 1912. Fletcher was also part of the gold-winning team in the 4×100m freestyle rela…
The Lady Footballers
The Lady Footballers: Struggling to Play in Victorian Britain, by James F. Lee, London and New York, Routledge, first published in 2008, transferred to digital publishing 2010, iv + 137 pp., notes
The Grads Are Playing Tonight! The Story of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Club
As might be expected from the pioneering author M. Ann Hall, this is an important book that will provide the template for the collective biography of many sports teams across a variety of codes. As
Given the Boot
The robust design of the mass-produced British football boot from the late nineteenth century onwards appeared to evolve rather slowly compared with subsequent lightweight, flexible ‘continental’ fabrication. However, with careful reading we can identify considerable overlap and influence between manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Boot and shoe manufacturing was an intensely competitive industry and it was in the interests of entrepreneur…
Sport and Its Female Fans
Fandom has to be one of the most over-written and least understood topics in academic sports writing. Given the impetus of government interest in hooliganism begun by the Thatcher regime, academic
Representing Self, Community and Nation
The beginnings of British Empire sports in 1911 were soon followed by the increased recognition of female athletes at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games with the swimming gold medal won by the British 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay team (Isabella Moore of Scotland, Irene Steer of Wales, Annie Spiers and Jennie Fletcher of England). The first British Empire Games were held in Hamilton, Ontario Province in Canada from 16 to 23 August 1930 and were a …
From Sportswear to Leisurewear
The football shirt is of iconic significance, defining a club's visual identity through its role as sporting uniform and fan identifier, providing a canvas for commercial interactions and increasingly acting as the focus of nostalgia and collector culture. In this article we focus on the football shirt's extension from sportswear to a replica product worn as cross-generational leisurewear. We first consider how a replica's authenticity, its princ…
The History of Motor Sport
This collection is a welcome introductory volume on motor sport; mainly exploring car racing but also acknowledging continuities with motor cycle and ‘light car’ or three-wheel vehicle competitions
Kit
This is an introductory essay for the special edition of Sport in History entitled ‘Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body’. As well as giving an overview of the six articles in the collection, the introduction seeks to give an overview of sport and dress history. It then raises questions of the intersection of national style, costume history and sporting fashion as active and leisurewear
Tri-ang Strong Toys’
This article explores the confluence of British motor sport, toy car manufacture and leisure during the period from 1919 to 1939. Mass-production toy-making had been bound up with the manufacture of sporting and fancy goods from the middle of the nineteenth century onwards. Motorised transport benefitted from many of the same practices and light engineering techniques honed in cycle manufacture. The fashionable Brooklands circuit was established …
Women, Football and History
This paper provides an overview of a collection of works related to women and football from international perspectives. After a general discursive introduction, the material discussed has its emphasis on studies connected to women and football that occur outside the locus of established scholarship. In particular, it is noted that the works concentrate on the geographic locations of New Zealand, Australia and the USA, and four major football code…
We’re the lassies from Lancashire’
The FA banned women’s football from the grounds of Association-affiliated clubs in 1921, on the grounds that the organisation perceived that football was ‘unsuitable’ for women and too much money raised for charity had been absorbed in player expenses. But women continued to play. This article analyses how Manchester Corinthians Ladies Football Club, which had been formed in 1949, was able to sustain a varied range of overseas tours and domestic …
Upfront and onside
Published in Upfront and Onside Women, Football, History and Heritage, Special Edition of Sport in History
Introduction to the second special edition of upfront and onside
While the first special edition dedicated to women’s football came out at the beginning of the Women’s World Cup 2019 tournament, held in France, this second edition is released as the legacy of that tournament is being debated. FIFA is a janus-faced institution. It both governs and develops world soccer. Many analysts think that the governance and developmental roles should be separated because the organisaton has proven that it lacks transparen…
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