How I came to write ‘This Sporting Life: Sport & Liberty in England 1760-1960’ (OUP 2020) - Professor Robert Colls

When
18 Nov 2024
19:30 - 21:00
Location
Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
Spaces left
94

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Professor Robert Colls BA DPhil

Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, International Centre for Sport History and Culture, De Montfort University

Lecture outline

Trials and tribulations of a historian who thought he knew what he was doing…

Biographical note

Robert Colls was born in South Shields and educated at the universities of Sussex and York. He came to Leicester in 1979 to work at Vaughan College and in the department of Adult Education. He was formerly professor of History at Leicester University, and at de Montfort University.

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