Wray Vamplew
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 358673 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Wray Vamplew |
| PRENOMES | Wray |
| SOBRENOME | Vamplew |
| ASSINATURA | VAMPLEW W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8266-0998 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 87 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 85 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Long Economic Thread
By utilising revised definitions of commercialism, sports products and entrepreneurship, it is argued that sport in Europe has had a long association with commerce, one dating back to Antiquity. It is shown that this relationship involving spectator products, player products, professional participants and associated economic activity such as gambling, construction and sports tourism continued through Medieval times, the Renaissance and into the E…
Has Money Always Made the Sporting World Go Round? A Re-Interpretation of Early Commercialisation and Sport and Its Implication for Asian Sports History
This article argues that sport and commerce have a long historical relationship and challenges Asian sports historians to search for similar connections in the non-western world by using new definitions of commercialisation and entrepreneurship
Bread and Circuses, Olive Oil and Money
By the application of new definitions of commercialisation and entrepreneurship, it is argued that sport in Ancient Greece and Rome was associated with significant levels of commercial activity. This included regular organised events, large-capacity sports stadiums, professional athletes with trainers and free agency, sports tourism, and gambling on sport. Those providing sport and sport-associated products ranged from petty businessmen, who sold…
The International Journal of the History of Sport 1984–20201
The International Journal of the History of Sport (IJHS) began life in 1984 as the commercially produced British Journal of Sports History (BJSH). Indicative of the pressure he was under was his failure to correctly identify the starting dates of BJSH and IJHS when reviewing the progress of IJHS in 2006. Ultimately some leaked emails brought matters to a head and in late 2013 the Editorial College and the publishers agreed that his relationship w…
Becoming a business
This study offers a tripartite approach to the analysis of the transition of two football clubs, one in England and the other in Scotland, from their beginnings as recreational football clubs to them becoming significant sports businesses by 1914. First, an environmental review assesses external themes and the economic factors that shaped change; second a transformational review looks at the dynamics of becoming a business; and, finally, an organ…
Twenty-Four Million Words and Still Counting
The International Journal of the History of Sport began life in 1984 as the three issues per annum British Journal of Sports History but is now the world's premier sports history journal publishing 18 issues a year. This paper traces its development under the direction of four Managing Editors
The Routledge History of American Sport
Book Review| October 01 2019 The Routledge History of American Sport Borish, Linda J., David K. Wiggins, and Gerald R. Gems, eds. The Routledge History of American Sport. New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xviii + 466. Notes and index. $250, hb. $57.95, eb. Wray Vamplew Wray Vamplew University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2019) 46 (3): 405–406. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.…
Tanking, Shirking, and Running Dead
This paper will offer an economic history perspective on match-fixing based on economic models which explain corruption as a rational decision-making process in which a potentially corrupt athlete weighs up various probabilities. Examples will be taken from sport worldwide including American college sports, NBA basketball, British horseracing, Australian Rules football, and sumo wrestling in Japan where large databases of actual results over time…
Entrepreneurship, Sport, and History
Entrepreneurs and what they do have long been assigned a central role in explaining economic change and growth. Classical and neoclassical economists viewed the economy as a self-regulating mechani
The Commodification of Sport
Sport becomes a commodity when either consumers are willing to pay to play or watch it or if it has a potential exchange value rather than merely a use one. Such sports commodities can be classified as player products, spectator products, or associated products. Aspects of the definitions of sports products, including dark products, are discussed as are their characteristics in terms of durability, predictability, and complementarity
Products, Promotion, and (Possibly) Profits
This article provides two new definitions in sports history: first, the sport product, which is seen as encompassing player, spectator, and associated products; and, second, sports entrepreneurship, which covers the four categories of direct income seeking, indirect income seeking, psychic income seeking, and nonprofit promotional activities. Within these categories, attention is drawn to sports entertainment and “dark” entrepreneurs, as well as …
Industrialization and Sport
This chapter considers three main aspects of sport and industrialization. First, it challenges the conventional wisdom that the British Industrial Revolution was the catalyst for the development of modern sport in Britain and that subsequently Britain’s industrialization led to the cultural export of sport to the rest of the world. In doing so it critiques Guttmann’s theory of modernization in sport; unravels the various influences of industriali…
A companion to American sport history
Changing the playbook
Old and Grumpy but Still Game
My background as an economic historian has strongly influenced my approach to sports history which I practise as a combination of theory and empiricism, particularly of the quantitative kind. Theory is central to our understanding of the social science of sport and evidence makes the subject history rather than fiction. As sports historians we should emphasize that our discipline is as ‘mainstream’ as any other form of history and we can contribu…
Creating the English Premier Football League
This paper outlines the development of the English Premier League association football competition and in doing so analyzes the consequences of collective decisions made by the constituent clubs on matters such as revenue sharing, salary caps and broadcasting rights, as well as the legacy effects of not fully breaking away from an existing organization. It concludes with a consideration of what Asian soccer might learn from the experiences of the…
Aspirational Reflections
This article provides a scrambled form of SWOT analysis of the ideas contained in the various contributions to this special issue on sport historians and the field of sport history. The market for sport history, pure and simple, is not in good shape in many places. Yet we must be careful not to confuse trends in employment prospects with shorter term fluctuations in demand. Nor should we conflate national issues with the international situation. …
Aspiration and Reflection
Following the series of Presidential Forum conversation pieces instigated by Kevin Wamsley on the NASSH website, this piece places the context of the collection of comments and criticisms by 29 contributors to this special issue on sport historians reflecting on the field of sport history
Sport, Historiography of
Some Thoughts on Methodology in Sports History
Sports History Methodology
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
In Praise of Numbers
Illustrated by examples of both good and poor practice, this paper makes a plea for sports historians to utilize more statistics in their studies. It accepts that some research is not amenable to a quantitative approach, but suggests that generally counting and basic statistical display can benefit the researcher. Numbers enable comparisons to be made, events to be put in perspective, and the typical to be distinguished from the unusual. However,…
Sport
This admirable book is the latest in OUP's well-established Very Short Introduction series, now containing over 350 volumes. Lying between Socrates and the Soviet Union, this is the first volume to
Sport and the British World, 1900–1930
Book Review| July 01 2015 Sport and the British World, 1900–1930: Amateurism and National Identity in Australasia and Beyond Nielsen, Erik. Sport and the British World, 1900–1930: Amateurism and National Identity in Australasia and Beyond. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xii+257. $85.50 hb. Wray Vamplew Wray Vamplew Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2015) 42 (2): 273–274. https://doi.org/…
Exploding the Myths of Sport and the Great War
This article examines the connection between sport and the First World War. It challenges the conventional wisdom that the athleticism associated with a public school education made a significant contribution to the British war effort. Additionally it argues that athleticism had a negligible influence on elementary school pupils who comprised the bulk of the military forces. It also suggests that while army authorities eventually accepted that sp…
Playing with the rules
Sport today is a rule-governed practice: constitutive rules, both prescriptive and proscriptive, define required equipment and facilities as well as setting the formal rules of play; auxiliary rules specify and control eligibility; and regulatory rules place restraints on behaviour independent of the sport itself. This article offers a broad-sweep examination of the historical process of rule development in sport including an assessment of the in…
Theories and Typologies
Clubs have become the basic unit of British grass-roots sport but have not been studied historically as a collective entity. This article offers a way forward by developing a working definition of a sports club using an ideal-type model, by outlining relevant theories that might be applied in a study of such clubs and by proposing typologies for the classification of sports clubs based on their non-sport level of associativity, ownership and faci…
The peculiar economics of english cricket before 1914
This article is part of the following collections: The International Journal of the History of Sport Best Article Prize: Early Winners (1984-2009)
Exploding the Myths of Sport and the Great War
This article examines the connection between sport and the First World War. It challenges the conventional wisdom that the athleticism associated with a public school education made a significant contribution to the British war effort. Additionally it argues that athleticism had a negligible influence on elementary school pupils who comprised the bulk of the military forces. It also suggests that while army authorities eventually accepted that sp…
Sharing Space
The pre-1914 British golf club exhibited bonding social capital formation rather than bridging, seeking to exclude rather than include. Generally the course, but especially the clubhouse, were sites for males of similar social background to meet in a homosocial environment, one protected by cost and membership policies. Segmentation of clubs within the same geographical area allowed for further social differentiation between men from different oc…
Not playing the game
The Protection of English Cereal Producers
Railways and the Transformation of the Scottish Economy
This thesis is primarily concerned with assessing, by the use of quantitative method and economic analysis, the role that the indigenous railways played, as consumers of industrial products and as suppliers of transport, in the rise of the Scottish heavy industries during the nineteenth century. Secondary themes include the source and productivity of railway capital; the railways as employers; the influence they had on Scottish agriculture; and t…
Sources of Scottish Railway Share Capital Before 1860
Entrepreneurship, Sport, and History
Entrepreneurs and what they do have long been assigned a central role in explaining economic change and growth. Classical and neoclassical economists viewed the economy as a self-regulating mechani
Captains Courageous
Gentlemen riders played a significant role in British horse racing before 1914, particularly in National Hunt, where higher weights and less stringent legislation encouraged greater participation than on the flat. Men from the hunting field and the military took their skills and courage to the racecourse and often competed successfully against professional riders. However, racing's intimate association prevented an amateur ethos from emerging and…
Bread and Circuses, Olive Oil and Money
By the application of new definitions of commercialisation and entrepreneurship, it is argued that sport in Ancient Greece and Rome was associated with significant levels of commercial activity. This included regular organised events, large-capacity sports stadiums, professional athletes with trainers and free agency, sports tourism, and gambling on sport. Those providing sport and sport-associated products ranged from petty businessmen, who sold…
The Commodification of Sport
Sport becomes a commodity when either consumers are willing to pay to play or watch it or if it has a potential exchange value rather than merely a use one. Such sports commodities can be classified as player products, spectator products, or associated products. Aspects of the definitions of sports products, including dark products, are discussed as are their characteristics in terms of durability, predictability, and complementarity
Products, Promotion, and (Possibly) Profits
This article provides two new definitions in sports history: first, the sport product, which is seen as encompassing player, spectator, and associated products; and, second, sports entrepreneurship, which covers the four categories of direct income seeking, indirect income seeking, psychic income seeking, and nonprofit promotional activities. Within these categories, attention is drawn to sports entertainment and “dark” entrepreneurs, as well as …
Sports History Methodology
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
In Praise of Numbers
Illustrated by examples of both good and poor practice, this paper makes a plea for sports historians to utilize more statistics in their studies. It accepts that some research is not amenable to a quantitative approach, but suggests that generally counting and basic statistical display can benefit the researcher. Numbers enable comparisons to be made, events to be put in perspective, and the typical to be distinguished from the unusual. However,…
Australian sports history
(1989). Australian sports history: a research agenda. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 252-255
The Long Economic Thread
By utilising revised definitions of commercialism, sports products and entrepreneurship, it is argued that sport in Europe has had a long association with commerce, one dating back to Antiquity. It is shown that this relationship involving spectator products, player products, professional participants and associated economic activity such as gambling, construction and sports tourism continued through Medieval times, the Renaissance and into the E…
Tanking, Shirking, and Running Dead
This paper will offer an economic history perspective on match-fixing based on economic models which explain corruption as a rational decision-making process in which a potentially corrupt athlete weighs up various probabilities. Examples will be taken from sport worldwide including American college sports, NBA basketball, British horseracing, Australian Rules football, and sumo wrestling in Japan where large databases of actual results over time…
Creating the English Premier Football League
This paper outlines the development of the English Premier League association football competition and in doing so analyzes the consequences of collective decisions made by the constituent clubs on matters such as revenue sharing, salary caps and broadcasting rights, as well as the legacy effects of not fully breaking away from an existing organization. It concludes with a consideration of what Asian soccer might learn from the experiences of the…
The history of sport in the international scenery
Sport history is the sports memory of a nation, but it is a contested terrain because of conflicts over the nature and validity of evidence and theory application. It has developed academic societies, which publish journals; however, there is also a strong tradition of amateur research. Suggestions are made for a research agenda and directions in which the subject may progress
Beyond altruism
Football charity matches and tournaments played a significant part in the development of the sport in Britain, overlapping the era of friendly games and the advent of competitive leagues. The football community prided itself on its contributions to charity, raising more money than any other sport before 1914, and stakeholders within the game – associations, clubs, players and patrons – gained considerable kudos for this perceived altruism. Howeve…
Successful workers or exploited labour? Golf professionals and professional golfers in Britain 1888-19141
Golf was one of the fastest growing recreational sports in Britain before 1914. It created a market for professional golfers as shopkeepers, teachers, green-keepers, and craftsmen. A database of 3,000 players was used to examine their social and economic experience at club and competitive level, and this experience was then compared to that of professionals in horseracing, cricket, and football. Golfers were the first sportsmen to permanently org…
Empiricist Versus Sociological History
This article offers a critique of the use of historical evidence by one of the sociologist proponents of the civilizing process in British sport. It argues that, in using cricket to illustrate how sport became less violent, he failed to define violence in a manner conducive to meaningful historical examination and, further, made historical errors of fact, relied too much on unchecked secondary sources, misinterpreted evidence, and argued by limit…
Alcohol and the Sportsperson
In a society in which alcohol has historically been a socially accepted drug, sportspersons and alcohol have had a long and strong relationship. For most of the nineteenth century it was recommended to athletes to give them strength and stamina, but now, thanks to sports science research, it is generally regarded as being detrimental to sporting performance. Yet, despite an awareness that alcohol can adversely affect their health and sporting abi…
The paraffin factory at Mandal
Large-scale paraffin production at Mandal, the most southerly of Norwegian towns, began in 1862 in a factory established by two former citizens, Theodor and Christian Salvesen, at that time living across the North Sea in the Scottish seaport towns of Grangemouth and Leith. Within a decade, however, the aspirations of the enthusiastic founders had come to nothing; production had ceased, the plant was being sold and the factory itself was in the pr…
Sources of Scottish Railway Share Capital Before 1860
The Financing of Scottish Railways Before 1860‐a Reply
Railways and the Transformation of the Scottish Economy
This thesis is primarily concerned with assessing, by the use of quantitative method and economic analysis, the role that the indigenous railways played, as consumers of industrial products and as suppliers of transport, in the rise of the Scottish heavy industries during the nineteenth century. Secondary themes include the source and productivity of railway capital; the railways as employers; the influence they had on Scottish agriculture; and t…
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. VI. Scotland
Railways and the Scottish Transport System in the Nineteenth Century
Scottish Railways and the Development of Scottish Locomotive Building in the Nineteenth Century
Professor Vamplew describes the expansion of a leading Scottish industry of the nineteenth century, illustrating that the nature and level of demand were the most important factors shaping the industry's growth throughout several distinct stages of development
The Transport Revolution from 1770
British Transport Since 1914
The Great Victorian Boom, 1850-73
Salvesen of Leith
The Turf
The nineteenth century Gazette Corn Returns
An Economic History of Modern Scotland
The New Economic History of the Railways
The Protection of English Cereal Producers
Ownership and Control in Gatemoney Sport
Tithes and Agriculture
Tithes and Agriculture
The Economic of a Sports Industry
The Economics of a Sports Industry
Close of Play
International Historical Statistics
The Origins of the Scottish Railway System, 1722-1844
Not playing the game
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