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Professor Dilwyn Porter

Job: Emeritus Professor

Faculty: Arts, Design and Humanities

School/department: School of Humanities and Performing Arts

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

Address: 51Âþ»­, The Gateway, Leicester, UK, LE1 9BH

T: +44 (0)116 250 6278

E: Dilwyn.Porter@dmu.ac.uk

W: /sportshistory

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Personal profile

  • Professor of Sports History and Culture at 51Âþ»­ since 2012.
  • Visiting Professor in Irish Studies, Boston College Irish Studies Centre, 2012-13.
  • Co-convenor Sport and Leisure History Research Seminar, Institute of Historical Research
  • Editor Sport in History, 2004-08.
  • Experienced PhD supervisor, 12 PhD completions.
  • Teaching and research interests in the history of British sport generally, amateurism in British and Irish sport, sport and national identity, business and sport.

Research group affiliations

  • Sports History and Culture
  • History

Publications and outputs


  • dc.title: Review: England and the 1966 World Cup: A Cultural History, by John Hughson dc.contributor.author: Porter, Dilwyn dc.description: open access article

  • dc.title: Media, sport and memory: the mediated legacies of great sporting events. dc.contributor.author: O'Sullivan, Tim; Porter, Dilwyn

  • dc.title: Sport and the Cornish: difference and identity on the English periphery in the twentieth century dc.contributor.author: Porter, Dilwyn

  • dc.title: The Reverend K. R. G. Hunt, muscular Christian and famous footballer. dc.contributor.author: Porter, Dilwyn

  • dc.title: Cornwall and rugby union: sport and identity in a place apart. dc.contributor.author: Porter, Dilwyn

  • dc.title: More than a game: sport, business and the media since 1960. dc.contributor.author: Porter, Dilwyn

  • dc.title: Peacefully at Wembley Stadium on 20 April 1974: the quiet death of amateur football in England. dc.contributor.author: Porter, Dilwyn

  • dc.title: The end of the amateur hegemony in British sport, c.1960-2000. dc.contributor.author: Porter, Dilwyn

  • dc.title: Sports history and modern British history. dc.contributor.author: Porter, Dilwyn

  • dc.title: Entrepeneurship dc.contributor.author: Porter, Dilwyn

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Key research outputs

‘Peacefully at Wembley Stadium on 20 April 1974: the quiet death nof amateur football in England’, in S. Wagg (eds), Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2011).

‘Cornwall and rugby union: sport and identity in a place apart’, in S. Crosson and P.Dine (eds), Sport, Representation and Evolving Identities in Europe (Berne: Peter Lang, 2010), 263-86.

‘Entrepreneurship’, in S.W. Pope and J. Nauright (eds), Routledge Companion to Sports History (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010), 197-215.

‘Egg and chips with the Connellys; Remembering 1966’, Sport in History, 29 (3), (2009), 519-39.

‘”Coming on with laps and bounds in the Metropolis”: London football in the era of the 1908 Olympic Games’, London Journal, 34 (2), (2009), 101-22.

Research interests/expertise

  • Sports history and culture
  • Amateurism in sport
  • Business history and sport
  • National identity and sport
  • Sport in Cornwall

Areas of teaching

  • Sports History and Culture
  • Postgraduate student research supervision

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Manchester, PhD (Manchester), FRHS 

Courses taught

  • MA Sports History and Culture
  • International MA in the Humanities, Management and Law of Sport

Honours and awards

  • Visiting Professorship at Boston College, Centre for Irish Studies, 2012-13
  • Invited to give the opening address at the first Anglo-Japanese Sports History Conference, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan (05/11)
  • Invited to lecture at Saitama, Waseda and Chubu Universities, Japan (05/11)
  • Honorary Research Associate, Business History Unit, London School of Economics, 2008>

Membership of external committees

  • British Society of Sports History, Aberdare Prize Committee, 2008-12; currently chair; committee awards prize for best academic sports history monograph published each year;
  • Conference for the History of Retailing and Distribution, Retail History New Research Prize, Panel Member, 2008-09
  • Convener, Sport and Leisure History Research Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 2008>
  • Birmingham and Midland Institute, Council Member, 2013>

Membership of professional associations and societies

  • Association of Business Historians
  • British Society of Sports History
  • Business Archives Council
  • European Business History Association
  • European Committee for Sports History

Conference attendance

‘Amateurism in British and Irish sport: some reflections’, Boston College Irish Studies Centre, Dublin, symposium on Amateurism in Irish Sport, (11/12)

‘”We don’t want amateurs, get professionals”; the end of Victorianism and the erosion of the mature hegemony in British sport’, North American Society for Sports History Annual Conference, University of California, Berkeley, (06/12)

‘Sport as a commodity: where the tangible meets the experiential’, Nottingham Business School, Pay and Play: the history of the leisure business in twentieth century Britain (05/12)

London’s Football culture, c.1880-=1920’, University of Westminster, Sport and the City Conference, (04/12)

‘God’s footballer; Rev K.R.G. Hunt – FA Cup-winner, international footballer and muscular Christian’ University of Worcester, Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts Research Seminar (04/12)

‘The London Financial press and the Suez crisis’, British Academy Symposium, The Media and the Financial Crisis in Comparative and Historical Perspectives, City University (12/11)

‘The Business of Sport and the Sport of Business’, Sport Leisure and the Creative Industries: Historical Perspectives Conference , ICSHC, 51Âþ»­ (09/11): conference organiser

‘Corinth revisited: the Corinthians, football history and football historiography’, British Society of Sports History, Annual Conference, London Metropolitan University (09/11)

‘English football and the state of the British nation, c1980-2000’, Sport and Leisure History Research Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London (06/11)

‘The end of football’s maximum wage and the modernization of British sport in the 1960s’, Conference marking the 50th anniversary of the abolition of the maximum wage, ICSHC, 51Âþ»­, (06/11)

‘The end of the amateur hegemony in British sport, c.1960-2000’, Keynote presentation; First Anglo-Japanese Sports History Conference, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, (05/11)*

‘Rev K.R.G. Hunt: muscular Christian and famous Footballer’, Sporting Lives Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University, (12/10)

‘A Game of Consequences: the London Financial Press and the Suez War, 1956’, Seventh Annual Forum on the Economic and Business History of Egypt and the Middle East, American University, Cairo, (05/10)*

‘The Victorian Sporting Revolution’, Parnell Society, Avondale, Ireland, (08/09)*

‘Football Businesses in Soccer City: London, c.1890-1910’, Association of Business Historians Annual Conference, University of Liverpool, (07/09)

‘Representing England’s Divided House: the Olympic Games of 1908 and English football’s great split’, Olympic City Conference, Centre for Contemporary British History, University of London (07/08)*

‘And shall Trelawny Live? Cornish rugby and national identity’, Representing Sport: Forms and Issues Conference, National University of Ireland Galway, (05/08)*

‘Sport, Business and the Media in Britain since 1960’, German Association for the Study of British History and Politics, Annual Conference, Mulheim/Ruhr, (05/08)*

(With Dr Richard Coopey), ‘Beyond the fringe: salesmen and the web of corporate control in Britain since 1850’, Direct Selling and the Evolution of Modern Marketing Conference, Department of Management, University of Reading, (02/08)*

‘War minus the shooting: George Orwell, Moscow Dynamo and sport as a cause of ill-will between nations’ Sports Studies Workshop, University of Keele, (01/08)*

*Paid for in full or in part by conference organisers

Other forms of public presentation

The 2012 London Olympics as Project, Spectacle and Legacy: contribution to round table discussion at Centre for Contemporary British History, London, 11 July 2008;

England 4 Austria 3: Stamford Bridge, London 7.Dezember 1932’, in Wo die Wuchtel fleigt. Legendere Orte des Wiener Fussballs (Wien Museum, Vienna, 2008), contribution to exhibition catalogue.

Consultancy work

  • ‘Sport and the British’, BBC Radio 4 series researcher 2010-12;
  • External consultant, student experience, School of History and Anthropology, Queens University, Belfast, 2011;
  • External consultant, review of taught postgraduate courses, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, 2011;
  • External reviewer, periodic review, School of History and Anthropology, Queens University, Belfast, 2010.

Current research students

  • Christoph Wagner, PhD, PT, 1st supervisor
  • Steven Crewe, PhD, PT, 1st supervisor
  • Regina Fitzpatrick, PhD, PT, 1st supervisor
  • Graeme Moir, PhD, PT, 2nd supervisor
  • Madelaine Armstrong, PT, 2nd supervisor

Professional esteem indicators

Sport in History, editor, 2004-08
Sport in History, member of editorial board, 2009>

Journal Refereeing:

British Journal of Sociology
Business History Review
Cold War Sport
International Journal of the History of Sport 
Sport in History
Twentieth-Century British History

Case studies

Current Radio 4 series, ‘Sport and the British’ has significant impact; documentation being collated by ICSHC.