Tony Collins (historian)
| Tony Collins | |
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| Born | Antony Collins Hull, UK |
| Occupation | Historian, lecturer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Subject | Sports history (esp. rugby football), Social history (esp. class) |
| Website | |
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Tony Collins is a British sports and social historian and author specialising in Northern England and rugby football.[1][2]
Collins is a Professor of history and the Director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University.[3] He also acts as a historical consultant to the Rugby Football League. Collins has been described as rugby league football's "leading historian".[4] He has produced a range of material on the history of sports and the social contexts of events; as well as rugby league, Collins has written about rugby union.[2]
Collins has three times been awarded the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History book of the year.[3] His books, Rugby's Great Split, Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain and A Social History of English Rugby Union, winning in 1999, 2007 and 2010 respectively.
Bibliography
- Monographs
- Sport in Capitalist Society (2013), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-813556
- A Social History of English Rugby Union (2009), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-47660-7[5]
- Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain (2006), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-39615-8[6]
- Rugby's Great Split (2nd Revised Edition) (2006), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-39617-2[7]
- Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol (written with Wray Vamplew) (2002), Berg, ISBN 1-85973-558-4[8]
- Rugby's Great Split (1998), Frank Cass, ISBN 0-7146-4354-8[9]
- Essay Collections
- 1895 And All That (2009), Scratching Shed Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9560075-9-9[10]
- Edited books
- Encyclopedia of traditional British rural sports (edited with John Martin and Wray Vamplew) (2005), Routledge, ISBN 0-415-35224-X[11]
- The Glory of their Times: crossing the colour line in rugby league (edited with Phil Melling) (2004), Vertical, ISBN 978-1-904091-07-3
- Lectures
- ’Ahr Waggy’ : Harold Wagstaff and the making of Anglo-Australian rugby league culture (2003), 5th Annual Tom Brock Lecture, ISBN 0-7334-2154-7[12]
External links
- tcollins.org, personal website of Tony Collins
- rugbyreloaded.com, a blog about rugby football written by Tony Collins
- 1895 & all that .... the Past, Present & Future of Rugby., lecture delivered by Tony Collins, 29 August 2007.
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