1st Edition
British Ambassadors in Soccer Kit or Transnational Actors? Football League Clubs on Close Season Foreign Tours, 1900-1939
1. Football League clubs and close season foreign tours
Peter J. Beck
2. Raising serious questions about the close season
Peter J. Beck
3. ‘The winter game’, the close season, and foreign tours, the 1890s
Peter J. Beck
4. The Football Association changes direction on foreign tours, the 1900s
Peter J. Beck
5. Giving a ‘new meaning’ to the close season, 1904–1914
Peter J. Beck
6. Showcasing overseas the power of British football, the 1920s
Peter J. Beck
7. A year of ‘disastrous and controversial’ Football League club tours, 1929
Peter J. Beck
8. ‘Should F.A. ban continental tours?’, 1929
Peter J. Beck
9. ‘Admirable examples of British propaganda as it should not be’, the 1930s
Peter J. Beck
10. The Football Association’s ‘new course’ regarding close season tours, 1938–1939
Peter J. Beck
11. Reflections on Football Club tours, cultural encounters and transnational history
Matthew Taylor
Biography
Peter J. Beck is Emeritus Professor of International History at Kingston University. His publications include International Football as Cultural Diplomacy: Britain versus the Dictators in the 1930s (2025), Using History, making British Policy: the Treasury and the Foreign Office, 1950-76 (2006), and Presenting History: Past and Present (2012).
Matthew Taylor is Professor of History and Director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester. His publications include Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45 (2020) and World of Sport: Transnational and Connected Histories (2025).
