What did Peterloo mean in an international context? Shirin Hirsch investigates the connections between Peterloo and a global struggle for freedom.
Tag: England
Aston Villa, the Offside Trap and the Nazi Salute
Continuing our History Workshop World Cup series, Neil Carter tells the story of the English footballers caught up in the tensions of Nazi appeasement.
A Game of One’s Own: Women’s Football in Victorian Britain
Continuing our History Workshop World Cup series, Tim Tate explores early attempts to establish women’s football as an international sport.
Football’s coming home? England and the World Cup
In the second of our History Workshop World Cup series, Charlotte Lydia Riley explores England football fans’ relationship to national identity, white masculinity, and post-imperial melancholia.
Apathy, hooliganism, and bleak provincial towns: Russia 2018 and England 1966
In the first of our History Workshop World Cup series, Tosh Warwick compares the build-up to Russia 2018 with England’s own hosting of the games in 1966.
