Dawn Day
Biographic Data
| ID | 93458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dawn Day |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dawn |
| FAMILY NAME | Day |
| SIGNATURE | DAY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6511-1014 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Swimming pretty: The untold story of women in water
A coach in all but name: The games mistress in inter-war Britain
For Those Who Like the Life Nothing Could Be Better’: The Games Mistress in 1920s Britain
During the Edwardian period, women’s physical education colleges were graduating significant numbers of gymnastics and games teachers, the demand for whom had increased rapidly following an expansion in the playing of team sports in girls’ schools. Much of the subsequent development of women’s physical activity in the 1920s can be credited to the passion and commitment of these women, who were not only key role models within the school setting bu…
Dale Barbour. Undressed Toronto: From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850–1935
Untiring’ in her efforts on behalf of the team and discharging her duties ‘in the most capable manner’; female coaches in Edwardian Britain
The compliments paid to Clara Jarvis by the Amateur Swimming Association in recognition of her contribution as trainer to the women's swimming team at the 1912 Olympics marked a unique public recognition of the role of the woman as coach in the Edwardian era (1901-1914).The absence of similar references to women as coaches or trainers in the archives could easily persuade the observer that Clara was an isolated example, but the reality was very d…
Swimming beyond the Metropolis: The Kent Street Baths in Victorian Birmingham
Throughout the Victorian era, the availability of facilities and prevailing social attitudes were important influences on the swimming landscape. Middle-class concerns about the working classes led to the creation of municipal swimming baths following Acts of Parliament in 1846 and 1878 and these became hubs for the development of local swimming communities incorporating teachers, baths staff and users. Previously, swimming had been dependent on …
The legacy of a cultural elite: The British Olympic Association
Changes in the State’s attitudes towards intervention in elite sport, particularly its willingness to invest through the National Lottery after 1996, resulted in Britain rising from thirty-sixth in the Olympic table in 1996 to second place in 2016. Government involvement marked a turning point for many long-established British sporting traditions and this paper examines a significant influence on these traditions, the British Olympic Association …
From Butlins to Europe: Fodens Ladies in the 1960s and 1970s
Emerging out of the shadows cast over women’s football following its marginalisation by the Football Association in the inter-war years, Fodens Ladies, formed at a lorry manufacturing plant in Sandbach, Cheshire, contributed to a new vibrancy in the game between 1960 and 1980. Emulating many similar works-based predecessors, the team established itself as one of the pioneers of a female football revival and provided a public arena for several pro…
Swimming Natationists, Mistresses, and Matrons: Familial Influences on Female Careers in Victorian Britain
The long Victorian period has often been interpreted through the lens of ‘separate spheres’, a notion that compartmentalizes markers such as gender and class into discrete areas. However, the margins surrounding class and gender were full of fissures and scholars have argued for more nuanced research involving specific case studies at a micro-level to uncover the breadth and boundaries of female experience. Adopting this micro-approach by using a…
Who in England cares about the champion spear tosser?” Field Events and the British Athletic Psyche before the First World War
The British Olympic Association was formed by men whose class attitudes were reflected in their adherence to traditional notions of amateurism. An emphasis on elegance and a suspicion of professional coaches were central to their ethos and resulted in the middle-class amateur focusing on events that accommodated the symmetrical body while avoiding events that demanded a more proletarian, highly trained functional body. The result was the almost c…
The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft
The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft. By Tom Griffiths (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2016), pp. xviii + 326. AU$34.99 (pb)
The industrial middle class and the development of sport and in a railway town
Increased industrial activity during the Victorian period led to the creation of industrial townships such as Crewe, whose growth was stimulated and sustained by the involvement of the London and North Western Railway Company. As in other townships, the paternalism of employers was reflected in company involvement in all aspects of the social, political and economic life of Crewe and the influence that was exerted on the population through the co…
The British Athlete “is born not made”: Transatlantic Tensions over Sports Coaching
During the latter stages of the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, the trajectory of organized sports followed significantly different paths in North America and Great Britain. Nowhere was this more evident than in the field of professional coaching where the American model of full-time coaches in universities and athletics clubs contrasted with the ever-increasing preference for amateur coaches in many British sports. While the Amer…
Settling the Office: The Australian Prime Ministership from Federation to Reconstruction
Settling the Office: The Australian Prime Ministership from Federation to Reconstruction. By Paul Strangio, Paul ‘t Hart and James Walter (Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2016), pp. vi + 312. Thirty‐two illustrations. AU$49.99 (cloth)
Natational dress: Functionality, fashion and the fracturing of separate spheres in Victorian Britain
In 1873, The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine extolled the values of swimming for women and gave advice on the best form of bathing dress, one which preserved modesty and met the demands of contemporary fashion. This essentially impractical type of bathing outfit has been the subject of much of the historiography surrounding female swimming costumes but it was not the only swimming dress on show during the “long” Victorian period. The women of al…
Victorian Turkish Baths
From Lambeth to Niagara: Imitation and Innovation among Female Natationists
The development of English swimming throughout the nineteenth century relied heavily on the activities of swimming professors and their families who promoted the sport through challenges and competitions and established classes for the teaching of swimming and lifesaving. Like many of their contemporaries, the leading swimming family of the period, the Beckwiths, expanded these activities beyond their Lambeth base to include summer seasons at sea…
Sports History Methodology: Old and New
History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just ... well, things happening one after another.1The process of converting the ‘past’ into ‘history’ involves engagement with a multitud
Boxing: A Concise History of the Sweet Science
Boxing: A Concise History of the Sweet Science." The International Journal of the History of Sport, 32(11-12), pp. 1491–1492
Delineating Professional and Amateur Athletic Bodies in Victorian England
By 1837, the sporting landscape of England was populated by a number of \nprofessional pedestrians who competed in a range of events that were \nextensively covered in the sporting press. These men distinguished themselves \nfrom their competitors through their use of ‘colours’ and a range of \ndifferent athletic clothing. In the later stages of the nineteenth century, the \ndominance of the professional athlete was challenged through the formati…
The Emergence of an Association Football Culture in Manchester 1840–1884
Association football had become a prominent part of Manchester's sporting landscape by 1884, when the Manchester FA was formed, and this paper considers both how the game became significant in the city and how this development can be used to further the wider debate on the origins of the game. Using a range of archival sources, the paper provides an overview of Manchester's footballing culture, focusing on the period up to the formal adoption of …
FA Cup success, football infrastructure and the establishment of Manchester’s footballing identity
Contemporary Manchester is recognized internationally as a footballing city, with both Manchester United and Manchester City acknowledged as prominent clubs. However, the city has not always been a force in the game, nor has the game always been important across Manchester’s social spectrum. This paper examines how Manchester first became established as a footballing city, identifying that success in the FA Cup in 1904 stimulated interest in the …
Pieces of Eight: Bob Janousek and his Olympians
America's ‘Mysterious “Training Tables”’: British Reactions and Amateur Hypocrisy
In 1895, athletes representing London Athletic Club were whitewashed by those of the New York Athletic Club. British reactions focused on the American commitment to coaching and the provision of funds to subsidize athletes, epitomized by the use of the ‘training table’ in clubs and colleges whereby selected men were provided with quality food in separate dining facilities. Later that year, the Amateur Athletic Union resolved that training tables …
The International Boxing Union (1913–1946): A European Sports and/or Political Failure
In 1913, some interested Frenchmen, aided by a Belgian launched the International Boxing Union (IBU), the only body whose primary purpose was to govern the sport at a world level. In the immediate post-war years, this initiative, continuously driven by Frantz Reichel and Paul Rousseau, foundered despite the brief participation of the English, through the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC), and of some Americans. But the IBU could never establ…
The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the Onset of the Pacific War, 1939-42
Delineating Professional and Amateur Athletic Bodies in Victorian England
By 1837, the sporting landscape of England was populated by a number of \nprofessional pedestrians who competed in a range of events that were \nextensively covered in the sporting press. These men distinguished themselves \nfrom their competitors through their use of ‘colours’ and a range of \ndifferent athletic clothing. In the later stages of the nineteenth century, the \ndominance of the professional athlete was challenged through the formati…
Sports History Methodology: Old and New
History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just ... well, things happening one after another.1The process of converting the ‘past’ into ‘history’ involves engagement with a multitud
FA Cup success, football infrastructure and the establishment of Manchester’s footballing identity
Contemporary Manchester is recognized internationally as a footballing city, with both Manchester United and Manchester City acknowledged as prominent clubs. However, the city has not always been a force in the game, nor has the game always been important across Manchester’s social spectrum. This paper examines how Manchester first became established as a footballing city, identifying that success in the FA Cup in 1904 stimulated interest in the …
Swimming Natationists, Mistresses, and Matrons: Familial Influences on Female Careers in Victorian Britain
The long Victorian period has often been interpreted through the lens of ‘separate spheres’, a notion that compartmentalizes markers such as gender and class into discrete areas. However, the margins surrounding class and gender were full of fissures and scholars have argued for more nuanced research involving specific case studies at a micro-level to uncover the breadth and boundaries of female experience. Adopting this micro-approach by using a…
The industrial middle class and the development of sport and in a railway town
Increased industrial activity during the Victorian period led to the creation of industrial townships such as Crewe, whose growth was stimulated and sustained by the involvement of the London and North Western Railway Company. As in other townships, the paternalism of employers was reflected in company involvement in all aspects of the social, political and economic life of Crewe and the influence that was exerted on the population through the co…
Boxing: A Concise History of the Sweet Science
Boxing: A Concise History of the Sweet Science." The International Journal of the History of Sport, 32(11-12), pp. 1491–1492
The Olympics, amateurism and Britain's coaching heritage
Although an increase in the quality and availability of sports coaching is one of the ‘soft’ legacy targets for the organisers of London 2012, little is actually known about the ongoing relationships between the Olympic Games and Britain’s coaching traditions, social practices which form an important part of the nation’s intangible cultural heritage. Using newspaper reports and organisational archives, this paper explores how the London Games in …
London Swimming Professors: Victorian Craftsmen and Aquatic Entrepreneurs
As sporting opportunities expanded during the eighteenth century, a number of individuals made a living from exploiting their skills, initially as competitors and later as instructors. Subsequent practitioners invariably drew from, and elaborated on, these existing practices, ensuring a degree of consistency both in how such knowledge was transmitted and in how it was subsequently sustained and developed. The key elements of this process were the…
Aliens in a hostile land a re‐appraisal of Australian history
Anzacs on the run: The view from Whitehall, 1941–42
Forced Labor: Maternity Care in the United States
The Discovery of the Conservation of Energy
The Adoption of Black Children: Counteracting Institutional Discrimination
Protest, Politics, and Prosperity: Black Americans and White Institutions, 1940-75
Journal Article Protest, Politics, and Prosperity: Black Americans and White Institutions, 1940–75. By Dorothy K. Newman, Nancy J. Amidei, Barbara L. Carter, Dawn Day, William J. Kruvant, and Jack S. Russell. (New York: Pantheon, 1978. xix + 348 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $15.95.) Get access David M. Katzman David M. Katzman University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Protest, Politics, and Prosperity: Black Americans and White Institutions, 1940-75
An undiplomatic incident: S.M. Bruce and the moves to curb Churchill, February 1942
Promise and Performance: Britain's Pacific Pledge, 1943–5
Anzacs on the run: The view from Whitehall, 1941–42
Aliens in a hostile land a re‐appraisal of Australian history
The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the Onset of the Pacific War, 1939-42
The Contours of Christian Education
Reluctant Nation: Australia and the Defeat of Japan, 1942-1945
In His Own Words: John Curtin's Speeches and Writings
Books
Freedom Bound I: Documents on Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Patricia Grimshaw, Susan Janson and Marian Quartly. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xi + 193. $22.95 paper. Freedom Bound II: Documents on Women in Modern Australia. Edited by Marilyn Lake and Katie Holmes. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xii + 208. $22.95 paper. A Woman's Constitution? Gender and History in the Australian Commonwealth, Edited by Helen Irving. Hale & Iremonger…
Books
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper. A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99 paper. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne. E…
London Swimming Professors: Victorian Craftsmen and Aquatic Entrepreneurs
As sporting opportunities expanded during the eighteenth century, a number of individuals made a living from exploiting their skills, initially as competitors and later as instructors. Subsequent practitioners invariably drew from, and elaborated on, these existing practices, ensuring a degree of consistency both in how such knowledge was transmitted and in how it was subsequently sustained and developed. The key elements of this process were the…
Kinship and Community in Victorian London: The 'Beckwith Frogs
Nineteenth-century professional sports coaching had much in common with conventional craft processes, with the coach as the master of a body of traditional specialist knowledge passed on through kinship groups and coach-athlete relationships. Knowledge transfer was embedded within informal communities of practice such as that centred on swimming professor Frederick Beckwith, whose aquatic promotions in baths, theatres, and aquaria were constant f…
Massaging the Amateur Ethos: British Professional Trainers at the 1912 Olympic Games
When the Olympic Games were staged in London in 1908, the British organizing committee ensured that the definitions of amateur formulated by individual national governing bodies were enshrined into the regulations for the event. Contemporary newspaper reports comparing British and American attitudes to sport suggest that the amateur ethos, which supposedly incorporated a resistance to professional coaching, was an integral feature of the British …
Science’, ‘Wind’ and ‘Bottom’: Eighteenth-Century Boxing Manuals
The eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of a plethora of sporting professionals, many of whom were involved in developing training and coaching practices. Teaching the skills, the ‘science’, of boxing became an important source of income for professional fighters while some practitioners also developed careers as trainers, normally operating on behalf of the wealthy ‘amateurs’ who retained professionals in order to make profitable wagers. …
What Girl Will Now Remain Ignorant Of Swimming?' Agnes Beckwith, Aquatic Entertainer and Victorian Role Model
Interest in swimming for women during the second half of the nineteenth century was stimulated by the public appearances of professional female natationists who performed in endurance events, exhibited and raced in swimming baths, and displayed ornamental swimming skills in music hall tanks, as well as teaching swimming in female-only classes. This narrative explores briefly the life course of Agnes Beckwith, the ‘London Naiad’, during the last q…
Pieces of Eight: Bob Janousek and his Olympians
America's ‘Mysterious “Training Tables”’: British Reactions and Amateur Hypocrisy
In 1895, athletes representing London Athletic Club were whitewashed by those of the New York Athletic Club. British reactions focused on the American commitment to coaching and the provision of funds to subsidize athletes, epitomized by the use of the ‘training table’ in clubs and colleges whereby selected men were provided with quality food in separate dining facilities. Later that year, the Amateur Athletic Union resolved that training tables …
The International Boxing Union (1913–1946): A European Sports and/or Political Failure
In 1913, some interested Frenchmen, aided by a Belgian launched the International Boxing Union (IBU), the only body whose primary purpose was to govern the sport at a world level. In the immediate post-war years, this initiative, continuously driven by Frantz Reichel and Paul Rousseau, foundered despite the brief participation of the English, through the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC), and of some Americans. But the IBU could never establ…
The Olympics, amateurism and Britain's coaching heritage
Although an increase in the quality and availability of sports coaching is one of the ‘soft’ legacy targets for the organisers of London 2012, little is actually known about the ongoing relationships between the Olympic Games and Britain’s coaching traditions, social practices which form an important part of the nation’s intangible cultural heritage. Using newspaper reports and organisational archives, this paper explores how the London Games in …
Delineating Professional and Amateur Athletic Bodies in Victorian England
By 1837, the sporting landscape of England was populated by a number of \nprofessional pedestrians who competed in a range of events that were \nextensively covered in the sporting press. These men distinguished themselves \nfrom their competitors through their use of ‘colours’ and a range of \ndifferent athletic clothing. In the later stages of the nineteenth century, the \ndominance of the professional athlete was challenged through the formati…
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