ABSTRACT
Those concerned with the welfare of sport history have seen its ghettoisation as a particularly problematic and I would suggest the same about my chapter – those who come to the book to look for sport only need read that chapter (though I do refer to it in other parts of the book) and other historians can skip the chapter entirely. Peter Beck has rightly argued that historians too often neglect sport:
Yet, part of the exclusion is self-imposed through too often publishing in specialist sports journals, some of which are unlikely to catch the eye of the ‘mainstream’ historian.
