History Workshop World Cup

Tina and Bobby: Celebrity, Swinging London and the 1966 World Cup Final

John Hughson 14 July 20181 October 2022

In the last instalment in our History Workshop World Cup series, John Hughson explores England's World Cup in the context of the "Swinging Sixties", and the untold stories of the women around the England team.

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Aston Villa, the Offside Trap and the Nazi Salute

Neil Carter 29 June 20185 November 2022

Continuing our History Workshop World Cup series, Neil Carter tells the story of the English footballers caught up in the tensions of Nazi appeasement.

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A Game of One’s Own: Women’s Football in Victorian Britain

Tim Tate 27 June 201813 December 2022

Continuing our History Workshop World Cup series, Tim Tate explores early attempts to establish women's football as an international sport.

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Scoring for the Non-Aligned Movement: Yugoslavia, Football and the Third World

Richard Mills 25 June 20181 October 2022

Continuing our History Workshop World Cup series, Richard Mills explores the role football played in establishing diplomatic ties between Tito’s […]

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Transnational Protest, Solidarity and the 1978 World Cup in Argentina

Raanan Rein 19 June 201813 December 2022

With the World Cup underway in Putin’s Russia, Raanan Rein looks back forty years to the controversies surrounding the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, and the transnational solidarity campaign that sprang up in response.

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Football’s coming home? England and the World Cup

Charlotte Lydia Riley 13 June 201827 April 2023

In the second of our History Workshop World Cup series, Charlotte Lydia Riley explores England football fans' relationship to national identity, white masculinity, and post-imperial melancholia.

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Apathy, hooliganism, and bleak provincial towns: Russia 2018 and England 1966

Tosh Warwick 8 June 20181 October 2022

In the first of our History Workshop World Cup series, Tosh Warwick compares the build-up to Russia 2018 with England’s own hosting of the games in 1966.

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History Workshop World Cup

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Series

Tina and Bobby: Celebrity, Swinging London and the 1966 World Cup Final

Aston Villa, the Offside Trap and the Nazi Salute

A Game of One’s Own: Women’s Football in Victorian Britain

Scoring for the Non-Aligned Movement: Yugoslavia, Football and the Third World

Transnational Protest, Solidarity and the 1978 World Cup in Argentina

Football’s coming home? England and the World Cup

Apathy, hooliganism, and bleak provincial towns: Russia 2018 and England 1966