Anglo-American conference 2009What is a City? The English experience John Beckett (Centre for Local History, IHR)2 July 2009Abstract: This paper will present an overview, concluding that England has two leagues of cities: a largely medieval league of what are now...
Digital History17 May 2011Professor Adrian Bell (Reading) and Dr Andy King (Southampton)The Soldier in Later Medieval England Project – did it do what we wanted it to do?The research project: The Soldier in Later Medieval England was supported by the universities of...
Sport and Leisure History20 June 2011Football and National Identity in Post-War England Christoph Wagner (De Montfort University)Huns vs Inselaffen: Anglo-German Football Rivalry, 1954-2000 In the 1950s and 1960s how was the rivalry between England and Germany in...
The rivalry with Germany has become legend for generations of English football fans. English victory in 1966 against their ‘old enemy’ continues to remind fans of a golden age – a moment to cling to and strive for. The two papers presented under the umbrella topic...
