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1. Sport as History

   Essays in Honour of Wray Vamplew

   Edited by Tony Collins

   Published to mark the career of one of sports history’s pioneers, this book traces the evolution of sport across three continents. It brings together some of sports history’s leading scholars to investigate not only the history of sport but also how that history is written. This Festschrift...

   To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. Sport in Capitalist Society

   A Short History

   By Tony Collins

   Why are the Olympic Games the driving force behind a clampdown on civil liberties? What makes sport an unwavering ally of nationalism and militarism? Is sport the new opiate of the masses? These and many other questions are answered in this new radical history of sport by leading historian of...

   To Be Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
3. Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports

   Edited by Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew

   Series: Routledge Sports Reference Series

   Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times to the present day in all of the United Kingdom and Ireland.This book brings together several distinct types of traditional rural sports with...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. A Social History of English Rugby Union

   By Tony Collins

   From the myth of William Webb Ellis to the glory of the 2003 World Cup win, this book explores the social history of rugby union in England. Ever since Tom Brown’s Schooldays the sport has seen itself as the guardian of traditional English middle-class values. In this fascinating new history,...

   Published January 12th 2009 by Routledge
5. Rugby's Great Split

   Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football, 2nd Edition

   By Tony Collins

   Since it’s first publication, Rugby’s Great Split has established itself as a classic in the field of sport history. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, this deeply researched and highly readable book traces the social, cultural and economic divisions that led, in 1895, to schism in the...

   Published July 13th 2006 by Routledge
6. Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain

   A Social and Cultural History

   By Tony Collins

   Called ‘the greatest game of all’ by its supporters but often overlooked by the cultural mainstream, no sport is more identified with England’s northern working class than rugby league. This book traces the story of the sport from the Northern Union of the 1900s to the formation of the Super...

   Published April 17th 2006 by Routledge