The Coronavirus has brought chaos to global sport with major football matches played behind closed doors and postponements widespread across elite football, despite Government insistence that the show would go on.
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In the last instalment in our History Workshop World Cup series, John Hughson explores England's World Cup in the context of the "Swinging Sixties", and the untold stories of the women around the England team.
Continuing our History Workshop World Cup series, Neil Carter tells the story of the English footballers caught up in the tensions of Nazi appeasement.
With the World Cup underway in Putin’s Russia, Raanan Rein looks back forty years to the controversies surrounding the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, and the transnational solidarity campaign that sprang up in response.
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.
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.
