A celebration of the work of one of the pioneers of the scholarly history of sport, Wray Vamplew.

Introduction - Tony Collins

1. ‘An Excellent Means of Combining Fresh Air, Exercise and Society’ Females on the Fairways, 1890-1914 - Jane George

2. Still Going After All These Years: Text, Truth and the Racing Calendar - Joyce Kay

3. The Proto-globalisation of Horseracing 1730-1900: Anglo-American Interconnections - Mike Huggins

4. What Went Wrong with Counting? Thinking about Sport and Class in Britain and Ireland - Mike Cronin

5. Australian Sport History: From the Founding Years to Today - Daryl Adair

6. The Tyranny of Deference: Anglo-Australian Relations and Rugby Union before World War Two - Tony Collins

7. Boxers United: Trade Unionism in British Boxing in the 1930s - Matthew Taylor

8. Deeply Honoured: The Rise and Significance of the British Sporting Award, 1945-c.1970 - Dave Russell

9. ‘In a Yorkshire Like Way’: Cricket and the Construction of Regional Identity in Nineteenth Century Yorkshire - Rob Light

10. ‘Egg and Chips with the Connellys’: Remembering 1966 - Dilwyn Porter

11. Wray Vamplew: A Bibliography 1969-2008 - Richard W. Cox