Introduction Part 1: Transnational and Connected Histories, c.1850–1945 Chapter 1: Migration Chapter 2: Touring Chapter 3: Communications Chapter 4: Competition Part 2: Transnational and Connected Histories, 1945-c.1970 Chapter 5: Connections and Disconnections in the Post-War World Conclusion
Biography
Matthew Taylor is Professor of History at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. He has written widely on the social, cultural and international history of sport. His publications include Moving with the Ball: The Migration of Professional Footballers (2001, with Pierre Lanfranchi) and Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939–45 (2020).
'World of Sport is sports history at its best, where sport’s chequered past is brought to life and we come closer to understand the most important of all the unessential but wonderful things humans dedicates their time to.'
Hans Bolling, idrottsforum.org (2025)
