Iain Christopher Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 6556795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iain Christopher Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iain Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS I C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lancashire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The great European Cup-Tie final, East Surreys v Bavarians, kick off at zero, NO Referee
The image of British troops advancing into battle kicking a football is part of Britain’s First World War collective memory. However, research suggests that this happened only twice, with the better-known event being on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme when ‘B’ Company of the 8 Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment kicked two footballs ahead of them. The East Surreys were one of the few battalions to reach their objective. However on th…
Wyndham Halswelle and the 1908 Olympic 400 metres final, the most controversial race in Olympic history
One of the central narratives of the 1908 Olympic Games is the intense Anglo-American acrimony which culminated in the nadir of their sporting relations. One of the major controversies involved the 400 metres final which featured Halswelle, a British athlete, and three Americans – Carpenter, Robbins and Taylor. The final was declared void after Carpenter obstructed Halswelle and was disqualified. In protest the Americans withdrew Robbins and Tayl…
A Century of British Readings of America through American Football
This paper examines the development of American football and the Super Bowl in the British imagination utilizing data from the British press. Divergent images of America have been present for centuries in British minds, and American football became intertwined with these images in the nineteenth century. Initially presented as a brutalized version of British varieties of football, once American football was seen live in Great Britain and it becam…
Over the Top”
Long lines of young Tommies going over the top and staunchly walking into a storm of steel and flame while dribbling a football is part of Britain’s collective memory of World War I. Collective memory is developed and sustained through the continuous production of representational forms. This paper draws on visual cultural studies to explore the images of the “football charges” produced during the war. It concludes that the published images aspir…
A Game for Christmas? The Argylls, Saxons and Football on the Western Front, December 1914
Historians know that any mention of football and World War I will involve discussions of the Christmas truces of 1914 and the mythical football match between British and German troops. Many British soldiers denied that any truce had occurred let alone a football match. However, while there is indisputable evidence of truces, triangulating proof of football has been elusive. In this paper, a case study of the British 2/Argylls and the German 133/S…
Football
In this article, three artworks of the First World War containing images of recreational football are analysed. These three images, In the Wings of the Theatre of War, Artillery Men at Football and Gassed, span the war from its beginning to its conclusion and are discussed in relationship to the development of recreational football in the front-line area, the evolving policies of censorship and propaganda and in consideration of the national mood…
The first ever anti -football painting’? A consideration of the soccer match in John Singer Sargent’s Gassed
The essay presents a discussion of Gassed, a large oil painting by John Singer Sargent displayed at the Imperial War Museum in London. Completed in 1919, Gassed is the major achievement from Sargent’s commission as an official war artist at the appointment of the British War Memorials Committee during the latter period of World War I. Prominent in the painting is a group of soldiers, blinded by a mustard gas attack, being led to a Casualty Cleari…
The Sporting Image
In 1997, an optional third-year undergraduate module, The Sporting Image, was developed for sports studies students in which they scrutinised the portrayal of sport in popular and high culture; including literature, film, TV, art and music. Fifteen years later, this module, now compulsory for sports journalism students, continues to examine the portrayal of sport and ways in which it has become an integral part of popular culture and resonates wi…
Hey Pal! Who Won the Marathon?’ The Illustrated London News 's Coverage of Sport in 1908, an Olympic Year
The complete digitization of The Illustrated London News (1842–2003) enables a closer look at its contents and coverage of particular events and areas of interest. In this article, we look at how The Illustrated London News covered sport, including the London Olympic Games in 1908, during that year. We determined that the newspaper devoted comparatively little special coverage to these Olympic Games apart from the marathon. This was because the s…
Over the Top
Part of Britain's folk memory of the First World War is of long lines of Tommies resolutely going over the top into a storm of machine gun fire and walking bravely to their deaths; following a piper if Scottish or kicking a football if English. However, rather than eventually becoming a conventional act of bravado, evidence suggests that the ‘football charge’ was limited to a 10-month period between 25 September 1915 and 1 July 1916. The most fam…
The Sporting Life
Book Review| April 01 2011 The Sporting Life: Victorian Sports and Games Anderson, Nancy F. The Sporting Life: Victorian Sports and Games. Victorian Life and Times Series. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2010. Pp. xxi+213. Notes, illustrations, glossary, and index. $44.95. Iain C. Adams Iain C. Adams The University of Central Lancashire Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2011) 38 (1): 139–140. htt…
Pancasila
Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world. There are possibly 17,000 islands (13,667 is a commonly cited figure), of which about 6,000 are inhabited. These islands are strung along 5,000 kilometres of the equator, north of Australia and south of mainland Asia. Less than a fifth of the area of Indonesia is land. Indonesians often refer to their country as Tanah Air (land and water). Indonesia is divided into 27 provinces. There are still i…
Personality and Somatotype of Trainee Pilots
Personality and somatotype studies of pilots have mostly been restricted to military pilots and experienced airline crews. In this investigation the 16 PF and Heath-Carter somatotype method were utilized to study 31 male aviation majors, aged between 18 and 38 yr., who had earned their Private Pilots' Licenses and were working toward more advanced ratings. The pilots varied significantly from the male college student norm on Factors E, F, G, H, a…
A Game for Christmas? The Argylls, Saxons and Football on the Western Front, December 1914
Historians know that any mention of football and World War I will involve discussions of the Christmas truces of 1914 and the mythical football match between British and German troops. Many British soldiers denied that any truce had occurred let alone a football match. However, while there is indisputable evidence of truces, triangulating proof of football has been elusive. In this paper, a case study of the British 2/Argylls and the German 133/S…
Football
In this article, three artworks of the First World War containing images of recreational football are analysed. These three images, In the Wings of the Theatre of War, Artillery Men at Football and Gassed, span the war from its beginning to its conclusion and are discussed in relationship to the development of recreational football in the front-line area, the evolving policies of censorship and propaganda and in consideration of the national mood…
Over the Top
Part of Britain's folk memory of the First World War is of long lines of Tommies resolutely going over the top into a storm of machine gun fire and walking bravely to their deaths; following a piper if Scottish or kicking a football if English. However, rather than eventually becoming a conventional act of bravado, evidence suggests that the ‘football charge’ was limited to a 10-month period between 25 September 1915 and 1 July 1916. The most fam…
Pancasila
Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world. There are possibly 17,000 islands (13,667 is a commonly cited figure), of which about 6,000 are inhabited. These islands are strung along 5,000 kilometres of the equator, north of Australia and south of mainland Asia. Less than a fifth of the area of Indonesia is land. Indonesians often refer to their country as Tanah Air (land and water). Indonesia is divided into 27 provinces. There are still i…
Personality and Somatotype of Trainee Pilots
Personality and somatotype studies of pilots have mostly been restricted to military pilots and experienced airline crews. In this investigation the 16 PF and Heath-Carter somatotype method were utilized to study 31 male aviation majors, aged between 18 and 38 yr., who had earned their Private Pilots' Licenses and were working toward more advanced ratings. The pilots varied significantly from the male college student norm on Factors E, F, G, H, a…
Pancasila
Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world. There are possibly 17,000 islands (13,667 is a commonly cited figure), of which about 6,000 are inhabited. These islands are strung along 5,000 kilometres of the equator, north of Australia and south of mainland Asia. Less than a fifth of the area of Indonesia is land. Indonesians often refer to their country as Tanah Air (land and water). Indonesia is divided into 27 provinces. There are still i…
The Sporting Life
Book Review| April 01 2011 The Sporting Life: Victorian Sports and Games Anderson, Nancy F. The Sporting Life: Victorian Sports and Games. Victorian Life and Times Series. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2010. Pp. xxi+213. Notes, illustrations, glossary, and index. $44.95. Iain C. Adams Iain C. Adams The University of Central Lancashire Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2011) 38 (1): 139–140. htt…
Hey Pal! Who Won the Marathon?’ The Illustrated London News 's Coverage of Sport in 1908, an Olympic Year
The complete digitization of The Illustrated London News (1842–2003) enables a closer look at its contents and coverage of particular events and areas of interest. In this article, we look at how The Illustrated London News covered sport, including the London Olympic Games in 1908, during that year. We determined that the newspaper devoted comparatively little special coverage to these Olympic Games apart from the marathon. This was because the s…
Over the Top
Part of Britain's folk memory of the First World War is of long lines of Tommies resolutely going over the top into a storm of machine gun fire and walking bravely to their deaths; following a piper if Scottish or kicking a football if English. However, rather than eventually becoming a conventional act of bravado, evidence suggests that the ‘football charge’ was limited to a 10-month period between 25 September 1915 and 1 July 1916. The most fam…
The first ever anti -football painting’? A consideration of the soccer match in John Singer Sargent’s Gassed
The essay presents a discussion of Gassed, a large oil painting by John Singer Sargent displayed at the Imperial War Museum in London. Completed in 1919, Gassed is the major achievement from Sargent’s commission as an official war artist at the appointment of the British War Memorials Committee during the latter period of World War I. Prominent in the painting is a group of soldiers, blinded by a mustard gas attack, being led to a Casualty Cleari…
The Sporting Image
In 1997, an optional third-year undergraduate module, The Sporting Image, was developed for sports studies students in which they scrutinised the portrayal of sport in popular and high culture; including literature, film, TV, art and music. Fifteen years later, this module, now compulsory for sports journalism students, continues to examine the portrayal of sport and ways in which it has become an integral part of popular culture and resonates wi…
Football
In this article, three artworks of the First World War containing images of recreational football are analysed. These three images, In the Wings of the Theatre of War, Artillery Men at Football and Gassed, span the war from its beginning to its conclusion and are discussed in relationship to the development of recreational football in the front-line area, the evolving policies of censorship and propaganda and in consideration of the national mood…
A Game for Christmas? The Argylls, Saxons and Football on the Western Front, December 1914
Historians know that any mention of football and World War I will involve discussions of the Christmas truces of 1914 and the mythical football match between British and German troops. Many British soldiers denied that any truce had occurred let alone a football match. However, while there is indisputable evidence of truces, triangulating proof of football has been elusive. In this paper, a case study of the British 2/Argylls and the German 133/S…
Over the Top”
Long lines of young Tommies going over the top and staunchly walking into a storm of steel and flame while dribbling a football is part of Britain’s collective memory of World War I. Collective memory is developed and sustained through the continuous production of representational forms. This paper draws on visual cultural studies to explore the images of the “football charges” produced during the war. It concludes that the published images aspir…
A Century of British Readings of America through American Football
This paper examines the development of American football and the Super Bowl in the British imagination utilizing data from the British press. Divergent images of America have been present for centuries in British minds, and American football became intertwined with these images in the nineteenth century. Initially presented as a brutalized version of British varieties of football, once American football was seen live in Great Britain and it becam…
Wyndham Halswelle and the 1908 Olympic 400 metres final, the most controversial race in Olympic history
One of the central narratives of the 1908 Olympic Games is the intense Anglo-American acrimony which culminated in the nadir of their sporting relations. One of the major controversies involved the 400 metres final which featured Halswelle, a British athlete, and three Americans – Carpenter, Robbins and Taylor. The final was declared void after Carpenter obstructed Halswelle and was disqualified. In protest the Americans withdrew Robbins and Tayl…
The great European Cup-Tie final, East Surreys v Bavarians, kick off at zero, NO Referee
The image of British troops advancing into battle kicking a football is part of Britain’s First World War collective memory. However, research suggests that this happened only twice, with the better-known event being on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme when ‘B’ Company of the 8 Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment kicked two footballs ahead of them. The East Surreys were one of the few battalions to reach their objective. However on th…
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