Mike Huggins

Professor of Cultural History, Sports History, Leisure History, Victorian, 20th Century, Inter-War Sport and Leisure History

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The European Committee for Sport History

November 3, 2015 By Mike Huggins

I’ve just got back from the Annual Congress of CESH, held this year in Florence, outstanding for its Renaissance, art, architecture, sculpture and university studies. There were delegates from right across Europe, north Africa, USA and Japan. I’m always impressed by the way mainland European academics seem to have so many languages at their fingertips. I chaired presentations that were in Spanish, Italian, English and French, for example. Questions came in a variety of languages, including English, but the speakers were often well able to understand and respond. It seems a great shame that by and large British academics don’t attend, though this year northwest scholars from Manchester Metropolitan University came out to Florence, as did Wray Vamplew from Edinburgh. Given that the reputation of British scholars is quite high in Europe, and their work is widely read there, the reasons for our very limited attendance are less than clear.
Is it that European scholarship and academic mores are rather different? Is it a question of cost? Our perhaps more limited language skills? Or is the same suspicion of Europe that is expressed in much of the British press?

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Professor Mike Huggins

 

Writer on sports history, leisure history and the history of popular culture.

 

Mike Huggins is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cumbria.
 
His research interests, expertise and experience lie in the history of British sport, leisure and popular culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the opening up of a wider range of evidence for their study, including visual and material primary sources.

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