Jeffrey Hill

School of English, Performance and Historical Studies

Publications

Nelson: Politics, Economy, Community (Keele/Edinburgh University Press,1997).

with F. Varrasi, ‘Creating Wembley: the Construction of a National Monument’, The Sports Historian No.17. Nov. 1997, pp. 28-43.

‘Leisure’ in John Beckett ed., A Centenary History of Nottingham (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1997), pp.553-48.

‘The Legend of Denis Compton’, The Sports Historian, 18 (2), Nov 1998, pp.19-33.

with N. Hayes Millions Like Us?: the British Cultural Experience in World War Two (Liverpool University Press, 1999).

‘”When Work is Over”: Labour, Leisure and Culture in Wartime Britain’ in Hayes and Hill eds, Millions Like Us? British Culture in the Second World War, pp.236-260.

‘Lib-Labism, Socialism and Labour in Burnley, c.1890-1918’, Northern History xxxv, 1999, pp. 185-204.

‘Cocks, Cats, Caps and Cups:  A Semiotic Approach to Sport and National Identity’, Culture, Sport, Society, Vol. 2 No.2 (Summer 1999), pp1-21.

with I. Inkster, C. Griffin and J. Rowbotham, The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and Economic History 1850-1870 (Ashgate, 2000). 
  
 ‘Sport and “Local Knowledge”: Cup Final Rituals and Multiple Identities in the North of England’, Memoria y Civilizacion  (Universidad de Navarra, Spain) 3, 2000 pp.311-329.

‘”Connie”- Local Hero, National Icon: Cricket, Race and Politics in the Life of Learie Constantine, Sports Historian, 22 (1), 2002, pp. 79-99. 
       
‘Sport and Politics: an introduction’, Journal of Contemporary History , 38, 3 (2003),  355-61. 
     
‘England v. Hungary 1953, the press and the modernization of Britain’, Sport in History 23, 2, winter (2003-4)
      
 ‘”Brylcreem Boy”: Intertextual Signification in the Life of Denis Compton’, in J Bale, M K Christensen and G Pfister, Writing Lives in Sport (Aarhus University Press, Denmark: 2004)

‘”An Ugly Day”:Wembley, April 28th 1923’ (in P. Darby, M Johnes and G Mellor eds, Football Disasters: an International Study, Frank Cass/Taylor & Francis, 2005)

‘Sport Stripped Bare: Deconstructing Working-Class Masculinity in David Storey’s This Sporting Life’, Men and Masculinities, 7, 4 (April 2005), 405-23.

‘Describing Cyrano’s Nose: Sport, Leisure and Culture in the Twentieth Century’, Imeros: An Annual Journal for Culture and Technology (Foundation of the Hellenic World, 5, 1, 2005, pp. 43-50)  

‘Anecdotal Evidence: the Newspaper Press, Sport and Narrative Theory’, in M Phillips ed, Deconstructing Sport History: A Postmodern  Analysis (SUNY Press, Albany, USA, 2006, pp. 117-29). 
       
‘”I’ll Run Him”: Alf Tupper, Social Class, and British Amateurism’, Sport in History, 26, 3 (Dec. 2006), 502-16.