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Professor Jeffrey Hill

Job: Emeritus Professor of Historical and Cultural Studies

Faculty: Arts, Design and Humanities

School/department: School of Humanities

Research group(s): International Centre for Sport History and Culture (ICSHC)

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, UK, LE1 9BH

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E: JHill@dmu.ac.uk

W: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/sportshistory

 

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Personal profile

Jeff Hill was the Director of the International Centre for Sport History and Culture from 2001 until 2007.  Since then he has remained in the Centre as an Emeritus Professor.  Before joining DMU he was a departmental head at Nottingham Trent University, and has been a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia (1994) and Columbus State University, Georgia, USA (2006).  He gave the John R Betts Honor Address to the North American Society for Sport History in 2004, and the Sir Derek Birley Lecture to the British Society of Sport History in 2009.  From 2001 to 2005 he was joint editor of Sport in History.

Hill’s main academic interests are in the areas of sport and recreation, popular culture, and historiography and theory, principally in a twentieth-century British and European context.  Recent publications include Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), Sport and the Literary Imagination (Peter Lang, 2006), and Sport in History: An Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).  He has edited the Cambridge Companion to Cricket (CUP, 2011) with Anthony Bateman, and is currently preparing Sport, History and Heritage: An Investigation into the Public Representation of Sport with Kevin Moore and Jason Wood for publication (Boydell and Brewer) in 2012.  He has also published several articles and book chapters on the theme of sport in literature over the past few years.  He is presently working on the relationship between sport, voluntary association and politics in interwar Britain.

Research group affiliations

History, and History of Sport and Leisure

Publications and outputs

  • Sport, History, and Heritage: Studies in Public Representation
    Sport, History, and Heritage: Studies in Public Representation Hill, J.; Moore, Kevin P.; Wood, Jason, 1978- Hill, J., Moore, K. and Wood, J. eds. (2012) Sport, History, and Heritage: Studies in Public Representation. Boydell and Brewer
  • Queering the pitch: Joseph O'Neill's Netherland and the cricket novel
    Queering the pitch: Joseph O'Neill's Netherland and the cricket novel Hill, J. Hill, J. (2012) Queering the pitch: Joseph O'Neill's Netherland and the cricket novel. Sport in Society, 15 (2), pp. 181-193
  • The Cambridge Companion to Cricket
    The Cambridge Companion to Cricket Hill, J.; Bateman, Anthony Hill, J. and Bateman, A. eds. (2011) The Cambridge Companion to Cricket. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Sport and Literature A Special Issue of Sport in History: Introduction
    Sport and Literature A Special Issue of Sport in History: Introduction Hill, J.; Williams, Jean This special issue of Sport in History presents the work of several academics who explore the literary representation of sport. The article discusses the methodology of using literature to study sport. Hill, J. and Williams, J. (eds.) (2009) Sport and Literature A Special Edition of Sport in History: Introduction 29 (2) pp. 127-132
  • Sport, History and Literature: Approaches, Methods, Critiques, DMU September 2008
    Sport, History and Literature: Approaches, Methods, Critiques, DMU September 2008 Hill, J.; Williams, Jean After a series of one- day conferences on this theme in 2005 and 2007 Jeff Hill and Jean Williams of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture organised a special two-day international conference on sport, writing and history. An international panel of guest speakers (USA, Iceland, Ireland and mainland Europe) were invited to give papers at the event. The Centre was delighted to welcome Prof. Michael Oriard, Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture, Oregon State University, as the keynote speaker for the conference. Hill, J. and Williams, J. (2008) co-convenors ‘Sport, History and Literature: Approaches, Methods, Critiques’ DMU September 2008
  • War remembrance and sport: "Abide with Me" and the FA Cup final in the 1920s
    War remembrance and sport: "Abide with Me" and the FA Cup final in the 1920s Hill, J. Hill, J. (2008) War remembrance and sport: “Abide with Me” and the FA Cup final in the 1920s. In: Bale, J. et al eds. Sporting Sounds. London: Routledge. pp. 164-178.
  • I'll run him: Alf Tupper, social class and British amateurism
    I'll run him: Alf Tupper, social class and British amateurism Hill, J. Hill, J. (2006) I'll Run Him: Alf Tupper, Social Class and British Amateurism. Sport in History, 26(3), pp. 502-519.
  • Sport and the literary imagination: essays in history, literature and sport
    Sport and the literary imagination: essays in history, literature and sport Hill, J. Hill, J. (2006) Sport and the Literary Imagination: essays in history, literature and sport, Oxford: Peter Lang.
  • The day was an ugly one: Wembley, 28th April 1923
    The day was an ugly one: Wembley, 28th April 1923 Hill, J. Hill, J. (2005) The Day was an Ugly One: Wembley, 28th April 1923. In: Darby, P., Johnes, M. and Mellor, G., eds. Soccer and Disaster, London: Routledge.
  • Sport stripped bare: Deconstructing working-class masculinity in "This Sporting Life"
    Sport stripped bare: Deconstructing working-class masculinity in "This Sporting Life" Hill, J. Hill, J. (2005) Sport stripped bare: Deconstructing working-class masculinity in "This Sporting Life". Men and Masculinities, 7 (4), pp. 405-423.

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Key research outputs

Books:

Learie Constantine and Race Relations in Britain and the Empire (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

Popular Politics and Popular Culture in the Age of the Masses: Studies in Lancashire and the North-West of England, 1880s-1930s (Peter Lang, 2014).

Sport, History and Heritage: Studies in Public Representation (Boydell and Brewer, 2012) - with Kevin Moore and Jason Wood.

Cambridge Companion to Cricket (Cambridge University Press, 2011) - with Anthony Bateman.

Sport in History: An Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Book Chapters:

Sport Fictions: In Praise of Masculinity?’, in J. Hargreaves and E. Anderson eds, The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality (Routledge, 2014).

‘”What Shall We Do With Them When They Are Not Working?” Leisure and Historians in Britain’, in B. Bebber ed, Leisure and Cultural Conflict in Twentieth-Century Britain (Manchester University Press, 2012), pp. 11-40.

Qualifications

BA, PhD

Externally funded research grants information

AHRC 2006: Sport, History and Heritage – a study in the public representation of sport (2006-08 – Principal Investigator).
 

Professional esteem indicators

Editorial board of Sport in History (GB) and Journal of Sport History (USA).