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Dr Martin Polley

Archival: This information was last updated in 2004.

Dr. Polley obtained both his First Class degree and his Ph.D. from St David’s University College Lampeter, University of Wales. After working as a part-time tutor in history at Lampeter Dr Polley moved to London and worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for two years.

He worked at King Alfred’s from 1992 to 2001, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1998. He was the programme leader in the MA in Regional and Local History and Archaeology and his research interests are modern British and international history, with specific reference to sports history. He taught modules on twentieth century Britain, the Third Reich and sports & leisure. He is now Senior Lecturer in Sport Studies at University of Southampton, New College

Publications

Books

Articles

  • 2003 Quoted in “When Sport Marches into History” on BBCi News [20/11/03]
  • 2003 History and Sport, in Barrie Houlihan, (ed.), Contemporary Issues in Sport and Society
  • 2001 ‘The Amateur Rules: amateurism and professionalism in post-war British athletics’ Contemporary British History
  • 1998 ‘The Diplomatic Background to the 1966 Football World Cup’ The Sports Historian Vol. 18 No. 2
  • 1997 ‘The British Government and the Olympic Games in the 1930s’ The Sports Historian Vol. 17 No. 1
  • 1996 ‘”No Business of ours”?: The Foreign Office and the Olympic Games, 1896-1914′ International Journal of the History of Sport Vol. 13 No. 2
  • 1994 ‘The Economic Base for OVERLORD’ in M. Doughty (ed.) Hampshire and D-Day (Crediton, Hampshire Books/Southgate)
  • 1992 ‘Olympic Diplomacy: the British Government and the projected 1940 Olympic Games’ International Journal of the History of Sport Vol. 9 No. 2
  • 1990 ‘Great Britain and the Olympic Games, 1896-1908′ in C.C. Eldridge (ed.) Empire, Politics, Popular Culture (Lampeter, Trivium)

Named Research Assistant:

  • 1995 Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series I, Vol. VII (London HMSO)
  • 1991 Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series I, Vol. VI (London HMSO)