@inbook{a4c1957ab33b4a908dffa325334f5582,
title = "Last Man Picked: Do Mainstream Historians Need to Play with Sports Historians?",
abstract = "This polemical essay explores whether {\textquoteleft}mainstream{\textquoteright} political and social historians need to engage with the history of sport. It recounts the coercive nature of the author{\textquoteright}s encounters with sports and sports history and suggests that greater integration of the history of sport into histories of Britain relies on a mutual understanding of the imperatives of academic historians, not least in the world of the Research Excellence Framework and the {\textquoteleft}impact{\textquoteright} agenda.",
author = "Paul Ward",
year = "2015",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781138057333",
series = "Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "6--12",
editor = "Duncan Stone and John Hughson and Rob Ellis",
booktitle = "New Directions in Sport History",
address = "United Kingdom",
}