Professor Fiona Skillen
@FionaSkillen
Professor in History, GCU. Research: sports & gender history, heritage &volunteering. BBC Woman Expert.
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https://www.gcu.ac.uk/staff/fionaskillen 28-03-2009 20:28:07
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Steve Bolton
Women's Football Historian #LizzyAshcroft Grandson St Helens 1921 - 1923 Dick Kerr Ladies 1923 - 1935 Captain
Dr Alexander Jackson
Curator @FootballMuseum Author of https://t.co/A32GsyV07r… Utility DEF. Views my own. 2023 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize Winner
Dr Katie Taylor
Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport at Nottingham Trent University. Researching women's involvement in American football. Vice Chair BSSH.
🌳🏴 ScotchProfessors 🌍⚽️
The Hampden Collection celebrates the history of 3 Hampden Parks, set in Football's Square Mile. The Spiritual Home of World Football and the Scotch Professors.
Conor Heffernan
Lecturer @UlsterUni. Author of The History of Physical Culture in Ireland and the History of Physical Culture. Co-host of @boysweveseen & @GettingColour
Game on! The women's #FACup final 2024 is here!
Why not add to your football fix by watching our In #WomenInFootball webinar in partnership with Chris Slegg and hear first-hand from Women's FA Cup winner Lori Hoey what it was like to be there?
🌎bit.ly/4cBm5P7
Never thought poetry would feature in the Sports section of the Mail Sport let alone as a front cover and double page spread on Old Firm day
Shows how far we’ve come - football and poetry have always been natural bedfellows for me - the people’s sport and the people’s words 🥹
Met the one and only Jack Black in Leeds this morning. What a total
gent he was.
‘You must never underestimate
the power of the eyebrow.’
A massive thank you Sporting Heritage for this award. I am thrilled to have my research into womens sport history in Scotland recognised in this way.
I’d like to thank all the individuals & organisations I’ve worked with.
SocialScience_GSBS Glasgow Caledonian University
Think your job is stressful?
Just remember: THIS used to be how driving ranges used to get picked.
#GolfHistory
Congratulations to all of our #SHawards24 winners last night! It was an incredible evening celebrating with you all 🏆
As we continue to prep for the summer show, we are looking for any Heart of Midlothian FC fans who happen to be competent musicians that play an orchestral instrument... 🎺🎻🎼
We're recording something special over the next two Monday nights (13th & 20th) with the Heriot Watt orchestra.
#More special moments at #SHAwards2024 Leeds Rhinos - award for the women’s rugby league heritage projects by Julia Lee Sporting Heritage
Love this! I’ve never been in an illustration before. ☺️
Thanks for inviting me Sporting Heritage to chair this session and thanks Jess for the fantastic illustrations which capture the discussion so well.
Loving the poetry, art, film and song of Unsung Sports which celebrates non-mainstream sport. Sporting Heritage #SPHeritage24
Now we have our first Panel discussion
Chair: Professor Fiona Skillen, Glasgow Caledonian University
Presenters: Professor Richard Cox, retired academic
Professor Mike Huggins, University of Cumbria
Professor Wray Vamplew, StirlingUniArchives
The annual Sporting Heritage Sporting Heritage conference is tomorrow (Thursday) - online and free to join! Last chance to book here:
sportingheritage.org.uk/content/catego…
Flashback to Football Manager’s announcement of Football Manager 1888 on April 1 2013.
A 🧵 on a detailed April Fool’s windup including some details you may have missed…
The weather may have been grim in Edinburgh for most of today, but it is looking brighter at the weekend, so why not come on a #WomensHistory #WalkingTour ?!
Sat 11 May 10am-12pm New Town
Sat 11 May 1pm-2pm Heart of Old Town
eventbrite.co.uk/o/ruth-boreham…
