Tony Collins: 10 books
by Tony Collins
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
From the myth of William Webb Ellis to the glory of the 2003 World Cup win, this book explores the social history of rugby union in England.
Ever since Tom Brown’s Schooldays the sport has seen itself as the guardian of traditional English middle-class values. In this fascinating new history,...
Taking My God for a Walk
A publisher on pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
In September 2013 Tony Collins took advantage of a long-overdue sabbatical to walk the 490 miles of the Camino, from the French border to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. For decades he had helped to provide the evangelical churches of the world with reading material. Now he was deliberately...
Rugby's Great Split
Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Since it’s first publication, Rugby’s Great Split has established itself as a classic in the field of sport history. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, this deeply researched and highly readable book traces the social, cultural and economic divisions that led, in 1895, to schism in...
Sport in Capitalist Society
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Why are the Olympic Games the driving force behind a clampdown on civil liberties?
What makes sport an unwavering ally of nationalism and militarism?
Is sport the new opiate of the masses?
These and many other questions are answered in this new radical history of sport by leading historian of sport...
Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain
A Social and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Called ‘the greatest game of all’ by its supporters but often overlooked by the cultural mainstream, no sport is more identified with England’s northern working class than rugby league.
This book traces the story of the sport from the Northern Union of the 1900s to the formation of the...
The Oval World
A Global History of Rugby
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Rugby has always been a sport with as much drama off the field as on it. For every thrilling last-minute Jonny Wilkinson drop-goal to win the world cup or Jonah Lomu rampage down the touchline for a try, there has been a split, a feud or a controversy.
The Oval World is the first full-length...
How Football Began
A Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of sixty years between 1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and unorganised activity to become the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people around the world.
The book explores how the world’s football codes...
The Lost Crystal
Key to the Ancient World of Thar Cernunnos
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
An archaeological dig in the English countryside might be considered the safest of pastimes, but not for Simon Tappins. His life is turned upside down when a dramatic discovery sends him back two thousand years into a world time forgot. He is plunged into a dangerous period of British history, a pivotal...
Where Does Money Come From?
A Guide to the UK Monetary and Banking System
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Where Does Money Come From? reveals how, contrary to public perception, the bulk of today's money supply is created and allocated by commercial banks in their role as providers of credit. The authors argue that this system is inherently unstable, with little effective regulation of how much credit...
A Sense of Regard
Essays on Poetry and Race
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, “is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic...