28 July 2012
I had an exploratory talk with Simon Whitmore, the Senior Commissioning Editor, Sport and Leisure at Routledge, the other day about the possibility of writing or editing a book on research methods in the history of sport Simon is an engaging, enthusiastic chap and the talks were useful and very constructive.
Afterwards I felt it would be useful to begin gathering data from academic colleagues in the field about two questions
a) how big the demand was likely to be for such a book? Would it be better targeted at post-graduate and early career researchers in sport history? Or at undergraduate final year students? And how would it best meet the needs of students who come to sport from history, who have good background in history, on the one hand, and students from sports studies who have good background in sport, but perhaps very little in history. Getting a balance might be difficult
b) what would be the most useful sorts of content? I’m still giving that thought though I have got a draft list
So when I go to my next conferences I will start asking around before deciding whether to take up a firm proposal.
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