MikeHuggins
@mikehuggins22
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Mike is an Emeritus Professor of Cultural history and currently writes on eighteenth-century leisure and sports, horse racing, match-fixing and the visual.
Windermere, cumbria
Joined June 2015
Latest paper this year, exploring one formerly widely popular 'blood sport' of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. 'From popularity to suppression: cockfighting and English society c.1730 to the 1835 Cruelty to Animals Act'
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It was a real pleasure to attend last week's British Sport History Society @BritSportHisSoc conference, an event I've enjoyed since I shifted career from Education to history in 1999. It will be my last as I hit 80 next year. Great seeing many good youngsters upcoming!!!.
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RT @sportinghistory: Now we have our first Panel discussion. Chair: Professor Fiona Skillen, @CaledonianNews .Presenters: Professor Richar….
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RT @FionaSkillen: A massive thank you @sportinghistory for this award. I am thrilled to have my research into womens sport history in Scotl….
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RT @CumbriaEnglish: Fascinating talk this evening as part of our Cultural Landscapes event series by @CumbriaUni’s Emeritus Professor of Cu….
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Happy to see my latest chapter published - "Historicising Sports Gambling", in McGee, D. and Bunn, C. (Ed.) Gambling and Sports in a Global Age (Research in the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 18), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 11-24.
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RT @malcomaxx: Unpacking the adoption, engagement, rejection & modification of 'western', colonial, imperial sport in the Uganda Protectora….
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RT @malcomaxx: Important discussion by @osborne_carol and Dil Porter of co-authorship in historical research through having co-authored an….
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RT @EricaMunkwitz: Dave Day @natationist on female coaches in Edwardian Britain … Legend! Women actively engaged in coaching practices even….
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RT @BritSportHisSoc: Huge congratulations to @DrAlexJack1 whose book Football's Great War: Associated Football on the English Home Front, 1….
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RT @EricaMunkwitz: Saving the best for last - @mikehuggins22 at #BSSH2023 on rules and order in sport / history. Sport has always needed p….
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My latest research paper on 'Umpires, Referees, Judges and Stewards: Changing Modes of Judgment and Arbitration in English Sport c.1600–c.1900' in the International Journal of Sport History is now on open access
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This paper explores the way arbitration approaches developed through the first four stages of rule development, focusing in turn on the ways the popularity of wagering first created more need for f...
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Eleven years last night since my lovely daughter Nikki took her own life. The date passes. The time passes. But her loss never diminishes.
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Finally found time for A History of Sport in Europe in 100 Objects edited by Daphne Bolz and Michael Kruger @arete_verlag. My entry features a George Stubbs racehorse painting (of course). Delighted to share the company of that wonderful community of European sports historians.
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RT @FionaSkillen: Great to see sporting history and sports heritage being supported in this way. 👏.
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RT @GISociabilites: Our DIGIT.EN.S encyclopedia is in the spotlight @DigitensP @univ_spn @UBO_UnivBrest
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RT @sera_romantic: Back at work at the "Sports and Sociability" conference at @Sorbonne_Univ_. We kick off with @mikehuggins22 's fascinati….
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RT @EricaMunkwitz: What an absolutely wonderful event in the most beautiful place, with a super audience. So much fun chatting with everyon….
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