Tom Gibbons is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Studies at Teesside University, UK. He is author of English National Identity and Football Fan Culture: Who are ya? and co-editor of The Impact of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Diminishing contrasts, increasing varieties. Tom has published various research articles and book chapters on the sociology and history of sport in the following topic areas: English/British national identity; globalisation and European integration; fandom; media; violence/hooliganism; disability; Christianity; football; endurance sport; and qualitative research methodsDominic Malcolm is Reader in the Sociology of Sport at Loughborough University, UK. He has published widely in the sociology of sport including the Sage Dictionary of Sports Studies, Sport and Sociology and Sport and Society: A Student Introduction. His core research interests draw on and apply the theoretical ideas of Norbert Elias’s figurational sociology to two substantive areas: the social development of cricket; and sport, health and medicine. In these fields he has published Globalizaing Cricket: Englishness, Empire and Identity, The Social Organization of Sports Medicine and most recently Sport, Medicine and Health: The medicalization of sport?

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• 1. Nationalism, the English Question and Sport[Tom Gibbons and Dominic Malcolm]Part I: English or British?2. Cricket: The Quintessential English Game? [Dominic Malcolm and Philippa Velija]3. Is St George Enough?: The relationship between English national identity and football [Tom Gibbons]4. ‘Tennis in an English Garden Party’: Wimbledon, Englishness and British sporting culture [Robert J. Lake]5. ‘We are just going to draw the raffle numbers’: The English history of the cycling time-trial [Tony Rees, Kevin Dixon and Tom Gibbons]6. Rugby League and the Negotiation of Englishness[Mark Falcous]Part II: Contested Identities and Sport in England7. Connecting ‘Englishness’, Black and Minoritised Ethnic Communities and Sport: A conceptual framework[Thomas Fletcher and Jim Lusted]8. England’s Lionesses: English women and sport[Ali Bowes]9. Disabled Athletes as Outsiders to English Sporting National Identity[Stuart Braye, Kevin Dixon and Tom Gibbons]10. Sport, Religion and English National Identity[Andrew Parker and Nick J. Watson]Part III: Attitudes to England from the ‘Celtic Fringe’ via Sport 11. Not a Case of Big Brother Looking Down on Us: Attitudes to England from Northern Ireland via sport[Gareth Mulvenna]12. Sending ‘Proud Edward’s Army tae think again’: a Scottish perspective on the quest for an English identity in sport[Stuart Whigham]13. Anglo-Welsh Football Relations [Martin Johnes]Part IV: Conclusion14. English National Identity and Intra-British Relations: Empirical and theoretical reflections[Dominic Malcolm and Tom Gibbons]

Tom Gibbons is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Studies at Teesside University, UK. He is author of English National Identity and Football Fan Culture: Who are ya? and co-editor of The Impact of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Diminishing contrasts, increasing varieties. Tom has published various research articles and book chapters on the sociology and history of sport in the following topic areas: English/British national identity; globalisation and European integration; fandom; media; violence/hooliganism; disability; Christianity; football; endurance sport; and qualitative research methodsDominic Malcolm is Reader in the Sociology of Sport at Loughborough University, UK. He has published widely in the sociology of sport including the Sage Dictionary of Sports Studies, Sport and Sociology and Sport and Society: A Student Introduction. His core research interests draw on and apply the theoretical ideas of Norbert Elias’s figurational sociology to two substantive areas: the social development of cricket; and sport, health and medicine. In these fields he has published Globalizaing Cricket: Englishness, Empire and Identity, The Social Organization of Sports Medicine and most recently Sport, Medicine and Health: The medicalization of sport?

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• 1. Nationalism, the English Question and Sport[Tom Gibbons and Dominic Malcolm]Part I: English or British?2. Cricket: The Quintessential English Game? [Dominic Malcolm and Philippa Velija]3. Is St George Enough?: The relationship between English national identity and football [Tom Gibbons]4. ‘Tennis in an English Garden Party’: Wimbledon, Englishness and British sporting culture [Robert J. Lake]5. ‘We are just going to draw the raffle numbers’: The English history of the cycling time-trial [Tony Rees, Kevin Dixon and Tom Gibbons]6. Rugby League and the Negotiation of Englishness[Mark Falcous]Part II: Contested Identities and Sport in England7. Connecting ‘Englishness’, Black and Minoritised Ethnic Communities and Sport: A conceptual framework[Thomas Fletcher and Jim Lusted]8. England’s Lionesses: English women and sport[Ali Bowes]9. Disabled Athletes as Outsiders to English Sporting National Identity[Stuart Braye, Kevin Dixon and Tom Gibbons]10. Sport, Religion and English National Identity[Andrew Parker and Nick J. Watson]Part III: Attitudes to England from the ‘Celtic Fringe’ via Sport 11. Not a Case of Big Brother Looking Down on Us: Attitudes to England from Northern Ireland via sport[Gareth Mulvenna]12. Sending ‘Proud Edward’s Army tae think again’: a Scottish perspective on the quest for an English identity in sport[Stuart Whigham]13. Anglo-Welsh Football Relations [Martin Johnes]Part IV: Conclusion14. English National Identity and Intra-British Relations: Empirical and theoretical reflections[Dominic Malcolm and Tom Gibbons]

Tom Gibbons is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Studies at Teesside University, UK. He is author of English National Identity and Football Fan Culture: Who are ya? and co-editor of The Impact of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Diminishing contrasts, increasing varieties. Tom has published various research articles and book chapters on the sociology and history of sport in the following topic areas: English/British national identity; globalisation and European integration; fandom; media; violence/hooliganism; disability; Christianity; football; endurance sport; and qualitative research methodsDominic Malcolm is Reader in the Sociology of Sport at Loughborough University, UK. He has published widely in the sociology of sport including the Sage Dictionary of Sports Studies, Sport and Sociology and Sport and Society: A Student Introduction. His core research interests draw on and apply the theoretical ideas of Norbert Elias’s figurational sociology to two substantive areas: the social development of cricket; and sport, health and medicine. In these fields he has published Globalizaing Cricket: Englishness, Empire and Identity, The Social Organization of Sports Medicine and most recently Sport, Medicine and Health: The medicalization of sport?

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• 1. Nationalism, the English Question and Sport[Tom Gibbons and Dominic Malcolm]Part I: English or British?2. Cricket: The Quintessential English Game? [Dominic Malcolm and Philippa Velija]3. Is St George Enough?: The relationship between English national identity and football [Tom Gibbons]4. ‘Tennis in an English Garden Party’: Wimbledon, Englishness and British sporting culture [Robert J. Lake]5. ‘We are just going to draw the raffle numbers’: The English history of the cycling time-trial [Tony Rees, Kevin Dixon and Tom Gibbons]6. Rugby League and the Negotiation of Englishness[Mark Falcous]Part II: Contested Identities and Sport in England7. Connecting ‘Englishness’, Black and Minoritised Ethnic Communities and Sport: A conceptual framework[Thomas Fletcher and Jim Lusted]8. England’s Lionesses: English women and sport[Ali Bowes]9. Disabled Athletes as Outsiders to English Sporting National Identity[Stuart Braye, Kevin Dixon and Tom Gibbons]10. Sport, Religion and English National Identity[Andrew Parker and Nick J. Watson]Part III: Attitudes to England from the ‘Celtic Fringe’ via Sport 11. Not a Case of Big Brother Looking Down on Us: Attitudes to England from Northern Ireland via sport[Gareth Mulvenna]12. Sending ‘Proud Edward’s Army tae think again’: a Scottish perspective on the quest for an English identity in sport[Stuart Whigham]13. Anglo-Welsh Football Relations [Martin Johnes]Part IV: Conclusion14. English National Identity and Intra-British Relations: Empirical and theoretical reflections[Dominic Malcolm and Tom Gibbons]