Professor Dave Day
Professor of Sports History
My profile
Biography
Academic and professional qualifications
Cert Ed., BA, MSc, PhD
Research outputs
History of Coaching and Training; Biographies of coaches; History of pedestrianism, boxing and swimming.
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Day, D. (2021) Sports Coaching in Europe Cultural Histories. Routledge.
Day, D. (2020) Playing Pasts. MMU Sport and Leisure History.
Day, D., Roberts, M. (2019) Swimming Communities in Victorian England. Springer International Publishing.
Day, D. (2017) Methodology in Sports History.
Day, D. (2016) Sport and Leisure on the Eve of the First World War. MMU Sport and Leisure History (SpLeisH).
Day, D., Carpenter, T. (2015) A History of Sports Coaching in Britain: Overcoming amateurism.
Day, D. (2014) Pedestrianism. Manchester Metropolitan University: Sport and Leisure History Group.
Day, D.E. (2013) Sport and leisure histories. Manchester Metropolitan University, Sport and Leisure History Cluster.
Day, D. (2012) Professionals, amateurs and performance: sports coaching in England, 1789-1914. Peter Lang.
Day, D. (2012) Sports and coaching: pasts and futures. Manchester Metropolitan University.
Day, D. (2011) Sporting lives. Manchester Metropolitan University, Institute for Performance Research.
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Chapters in books
Day, D. (2022) 'Products, Training and Technology.' In von Mallinckrodt, R. (ed.) A Cultural History of Sport: In the Age of Enlightenment. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 77-98.
Day, D. (2022) 'Products, Training and Technology.' In Huggins, M. (ed.) A Cultural History of Sport: In the Age of Industry. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 77-98.
Day, D., Schiller, K. (2021) 'The Sport in History Journal.' Routledge Handbook of Sport History. Routledge,
Day, D. (2021) 'Intangible cultural heritages: British sports coaching and amateurism.' In Day, D. (ed.) Sports Coaching in Europe: Cultural Histories. Routledge, pp. 19-37.
Day, D. (2021) 'Introduction.' In Day, D. (ed.) Sports Coaching in Europe: Cultural Histories. Routledge, pp. 1-18.
Day, D. (2019) 'Late Nineteenth-Century Swimming Teachers in England.' In Cervin, G., Nicolas, C. (ed.) Histories of Women’s Work in Global Sport: A Man’s World?. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 49-74.
Oldfield, S., Day, D., Taylor, L. (2019) 'Spreading the Word: British Sportswomen and the International Diffusion of Sport.' In Derks, M. (ed.) Building Bodies: Transnational Historical Approaches to Sport, Gender and Ethnicities. Verloren Publishers, pp. 41-54.
Day, D. (2019) 'Bricoleurs par excellence: Coaching Experiences in Interwar Britain.' In Corsby, C.L.T., Edwards, C.N. (ed.) Exploring Research in Sports Coaching and Pedagogy: Context and Contingency. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 121-130.
Lake, R.J., Day, D.J., Eaves, S.J. (2019) 'Coaching and Training in British Tennis: A History of Competing Ideals..' Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics.
Day, D. (2019) 'Late Nineteenth-Century Swimming Teachers in England.' In Cervin, G., Nicolas, C. (ed.) PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, pp. 49-74.
Day, D.J. (2017) 'The Female Bath Employee: Nineteenth-Century Sport as a Driver of Gender Equality.' Sport as Key Driver for Development from a Historical Perspective. Coni Servizi S.p.A - Scuoladello Sport,
Day, D. (2017) 'An 'art and a science': Eighteenth-century sports training.' Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture: New Perspectives on the History of Sports and Motion. pp. 125-144.
Day, D.J. (2017) 'From Lambeth to Niagara: Imitation and Innovation amongst Female Natationists’.' Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries: Historical Perspectives. Taylor and Francis,
Day, D.J. (2016) 'Developing 'Science' and 'Wind': Eighteenth Century Sports Training.' Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture. Ashgate,
Day, D.J. (2016) 'John Dewey: Thought, Experience, Democracy, and Educational Practices in Coaching..' Learning in Sports Coaching: Theory and Application.. Routledge,
Day, D., Newton, J. (2016) 'John Dewey: Experience, inquiry, democracy, and community in coaching.' Learning in Sports Coaching: Theory and Application. pp. 37-48.
Day, D.J. (2016) ''Our Present Methods and Spirit are Fatal to Success': Coaching and Training in Britain, 1912-1914..' Sport and Leisure on the Eve of the First World War. MMU Sport and Leisure (SpLeisH),
Day, D.J. (2015) 'Delineating Professional and Amateur Athletic Bodies in Victorian England.' Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body.
Day, D. (2014) 'Jerry Jim's training stable in early Victorian Preston.' Day, D. Jerry Jim's training stable in early Victorian Preston. In D. Day, ed. Pedestrianism. Manchester: MMU Sport and Leisure History Group, 2012. Manchester Metropolitan University: Sport and Leisure History Group,
Day, D. (2012) '‘Old Harry Andrews’:surviving the professional pedestrianism to amateur athletics transition.' Manchester Metropolitan University,
Day, D.J. (2012) 'Historical Perspectives on Coaching.' Handbook of Sports Coaching. Routledge,
Oldfield, S. (2012) 'Narrative, Biography, Prosopography and the Sport Historian: Historical Method and its Implications.' In Day, D. (ed.) Sports and Coaching: Pasts and Futures. Manchester: MMU Institute for Performance Research, pp. 35-60.
Day, D. (2011) 'Entrepreneurial pugilists of the early eighteenth century.' Manchester Metropolitan University, Institute for Performance Research,
Day, D. 'Historical perspectives on coaching.' Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching. Routledge,
Day, D.J. (2011) 'London Swimming Professors: Victorian Craftsmen and Aquatic Entrepreneurs..' Coaching Cultures. Routledge,
Day, D.J. (2010) 'Walter Brickett. A Respectable Professor.' Recording Leisure Lives: Sports, Games and Pastimes in 20th Century Britain. Leisure Studies Association,
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Reports
Day, D. (2014) From Oldham baths to American Vaudeville and beyond: the Finney family.
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Internet publications
Day, D.J. (2018) The ‘valuable and unremitting services’ of Swimming Coach Walter Brickett. http://www.playingpasts.co.uk/articles/general/the-valuable-and-unremitting-services-of-swimming-coach-walter-brickett/.
Day, D.J. (2017) Mussabini Myths: Lacking Wisdom. http://www.playingpasts.co.uk/articles/general/mussabini-myths-lacking-wisdom/.
Day, D.J. (2017) Crawling to Success: Swimming Coach Bill Howcroft.. http://www.playingpasts.co.uk/articles/general/crawling-to-success-swimming-coach-bill-howcroft/.
Day, D.J. (2017) ‘No fee’ was to be charged for their services: Amateur athletics advisors in 1935: Part 2. Henry Rottenburg, Athletics Innovator. https://www.playingpasts.co.uk/articles/athletics/no-fee-was-to-be-charged-for-their-services-amateur-athletics-advisors-in-1935-part-2-henry-rottenburg-athletics-innovator/.
Day, D.J. (2017) ‘No fee’ was to be charged for their services: Amateur athletics advisors in 1935: Part 1. Coaches and Administrators. https://www.playingpasts.co.uk/articles/athletics/no-fee-was-to-be-charged-for-their-services-amateur-athletics-advisors-in-1935-part-1-coaches-and-administrators/.
Day, D.J. (2017) Sam Fritty: A Life in Athletics and Trotting.. http://www.playingpasts.co.uk/.
Day, D.J. (2016) Supporting Elite Amateurs: British Coaches and Trainers at Stockholm in 1912.. http://www.playingpasts.co.uk/.
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Journal articles
Day, D. (2024) '‘For Those Who Like the Life Nothing Could Be Better’: The Games Mistress in 1920s Britain.' Social Sciences, 13(4) pp. 212-212.
Day, D., Loudcher, J.F., Vaucelle, S. (2024) 'Sports coaching histories and biographies: a raison D’être.' Sports Coaching Review, pp. 1-22.
Day, D. (2023) '‘Untiring’ in her efforts on behalf of the team and discharging her duties ‘in the most capable manner’; female coaches in Edwardian Britain.' Sport in History,
Day, D. (2023) 'Coach migration and the sharing of British expertise: some historical perspectives.' Sports Coaching Review,
Day, D., Roberts, M. (2021) 'Swimming beyond the Metropolis: The Kent Street Baths in Victorian Birmingham.' Midland History, 46(2) pp. 192-206.
Day, D., Roberts, M. (2020) 'Representing the Life Course of a Nineteenth-Century Aquatic Entertainer Through Different Modes of Expression..' Revista Repertório, Salvador, 23(34) pp. 114-141.
Day, D., Stoklasa, J. (2020) 'The Legacy of a Cultural Elite: The British Olympic Association.' Historia, questoes & debates : revista da Associacao Paranaense de Historia, 68(2) pp. 229-248.
Day, D., Roberts, M. (2019) 'From Butlins to Europe: Fodens Ladies in the 1960s and 1970s.' Sport in History, 39(4) pp. 418-444.
Day, D. (2019) 'Swimming Natationists, Mistresses, and Matrons: Familial Influences on Female Careers in Victorian Britain.' International Journal of the History of Sport, 35(6) pp. 494-510.
Day, D. (2019) 'Swimming into modernity: innovation and invention amongst aquatic craft communities in Victorian England.' Leisure/Loisir,
Day, D. (2018) 'Bricoleurs extraordinaire: sports coaches in Inter War Britain.' Sports Coaching Review, 8(3) pp. 243-261.
Day, D., Harris, L. (2018) '“Who in England cares about the champion spear tosser?” Field Events and the British Athletic Psyche before World War One..' Journal of Sport History, 45(2) pp. 165-182.
Day, D.J. (2017) 'The ‘Human Training Stables’ of Victorian America: Cultural Differences in Sports Coaching.' Staps, Revue Internationale des Sciences du Sport et de l’éducation Physique, 38(1:115) pp. 37-47.
Dyer, L., Day, D. (2017) 'The industrial middle class and the development of sport and in a railway town.' Sport in History, 37(2) pp. 164-182.
Loudcher, J.F., Day, D. (2017) 'Introduction. Le Coaching Sportif: Perspectives Historiques et Culturelles (Sport Coaching: Historical and Cultural Perspectives).' Revue Internationale des Sciences du Sport et de l’éducation Physique/STAPS (The International Journal of Sport Science and Physical Education), 37 (4)(114) pp. 7-9.
Day, D.J. (2017) 'The British Athlete "is born not made": Transatlantic Tensions over Sports Coaching.' Journal of Sport History, 44(1)
Day, D.J. (2017) 'Quelques Perspectives Anglaises sur le Coaching Sportif. Some English Perspectives on Sport Coaching..' Revue Internationale des Sciences du Sport et de l’éducation Physique - Staps (The International Journal of Sport Science and Physical Education), 37(4)(114) pp. 13-15.
Day, D.J. (2016) 'Natational Dress: Functionality, Fashion and the Fracturing of Separate Spheres in Victorian Britain.' Annals of Leisure Research, 19
Day, D.J., Vamplew, W. (2016) 'Sports History Methodologies: Old and New.' International Journal of the History of Sport, 32(15) pp. 1715-1724.
Day, D. (2015) 'From Lambeth to Niagara: Imitation and Innovation among Female Natationists.' Sport in History, 35(3) pp. 364-390.
Day, D., Oldfield, S.J. (2015) 'Delineating professional and amateur athletic bodies in Victorian England.' Sport in history, 35(1) pp. 19-45.
James, G., Day, D. (2014) 'FA Cup success, football infrastructure and the establishment of Manchester’s footballing identity.' Soccer and Society, 16(2-3) pp. 200-216.
Day, D. (2014) 'America's ‘Mysterious “Training Tables”’: British Reactions and Amateur Hypocrisy.' Sport in History, 34(1) pp. 90-112.
James, G., Day, D. (2014) 'The emergence of an association football culture in Manchester 1840–1884.' Sport in history, 34(1) pp. 49-74.
Loudcher, J.F., Day, D. (2013) 'The International Boxing Union (1913–1946): a European sports and/or political failure?.' The international journal of the history of sport, 30(17) pp. 2016-2030.
Day, D. (2013) 'Victorian coaching communities: exemplars of traditional practice.' Sports Coaching Review, 2(2) pp. 151-162.
Day, D. (2012) ''What Girl Will Now Remain Ignorant Of Swimming?' Agnes Beckwith, Aquatic Entertainer and Victorian Role Model.' WOMENS HISTORY REVIEW, 21(3) pp. 419-446.
Day, D. (2012) 'Massaging the Amateur Ethos: British Professional Trainers at the 1912 Olympic Games.' Sport in History, 32(2) pp. 157-182.
Day, D. (2012) 'Beckwith, Frederick Edward (1821–1898), swimmer.'
Day, D. (2012) 'Brickett, Walter Septimus (1865–1933), swimming coach.'
Day, D. (2012) ''Science', 'Wind' and 'Bottom': Eighteenth-Century Boxing Manuals.' INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT, 29(10) pp. 1446-1465.
Day, D. (2012) '‘Magical and fanciful theories’: sports psychologists and craft coaches.' Sports Coaching Review, 1(1) pp. 52-66.
Day, D., Carter, N., Carpenter, T. (2012) 'The Olympics, amateurism and Britain's coaching heritage.' INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HERITAGE STUDIES, 19(2) pp. 139-152.
Day, D. (2011) 'Kinship and Community in Victorian London: the 'Beckwith Frogs'.' History Workshop Journal, 71(1) pp. 194-218.
Day, D. (2011) 'Craft Coaching and the 'Discerning Eye' of the Coach.' INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCE & COACHING, 6(1) pp. 179-195.
Day, D. (2011) 'Accreditation of PGA master coaches: A commentary.' International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 7(SUPPL. 1) pp. 131-134.
Day, D. (2010) 'London Swimming Professors: Victorian Craftsmen and Aquatic Entrepreneurs.' Sport in History, 30(1) pp. 32-54.
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Non-peer reviewed articles / reviews
Day, D.J. (2016) Victorian Turkish Baths.
Day, D. (2015) Boxing: A Concise History of the Sweet Science.
Day, D. (2013) Pieces of Eight: Bob Janousek and his Olympians.
Day, D.J. (2010) Christopher Love. A Social History of Swimming, 1800-1918 (London: Routledge, 2008).
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Conference papers
Day, D. (2022) 'Unintended Consequences: bathhouses and the expansion of occupational opportunities for Victorian women.' In Von der Schwimmkunst zum Badevergnügen und Schwimmsport 16. Irseer sporthistorische Konferenz / 10. Symposium der Deutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft von Sportmuseen, Sportarchiven und Sportsammlungen e.V. (DAGS). Schwabenakademie Irsee, Klosterring, Germany, 20/5/2022 - 22/5/2022.
Day, D. (2020) 'The Legacy of a Cultural Elite: The British Olympic Association..' 30/10/2019 - 31/10/2019.
Day, D. (2019) 'Overcoming Adversity: Violet Cambridge and the Women’s Amateur Athletics Association in Inter-War Britain..' In 23rd international CESH congress. Lausanne, Switzerland, 12/9/2019 - 14/9/2019. European Committee for Sports History,
Day, D. (2019) 'The appliance of ‘science’ or the expression of an ‘art’: Coaching texts in the ‘Long Victorian’ period.' In Cluster for Research into Coaching (CRiC) 2019 International Coaching Conference. University of Worcester, 4/9/2019 - 5/9/2019.
Day, D. (2019) 'Gendering Sport and Health in Victorian Periodicals for Boys and Girls.' In Sport and Literature Association Annual Conference. University of Limoges, France, 19/6/2019 - 22/6/2019.
Day, D. (2018) 'Patrimonial Dynamics and British Sports Coaching: A Century of Intangible Cultural Heritage.' In European Committee for Sports History (CESH 2018). Bordeaux, France, 29/10/2018 - 31/10/2018.
Day, D. (2018) '‘No fee was to be charged for their services’: British Athletics Coaching in the 1930s”.' In International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (19th ISHPES Congress). University of Munster-Westphalia, Germany, 18/7/2018 - 21/7/2018. ISHPES,
Day, D.J. (2018) ''Exercise for the multitude, rather than competition for the specialist': British Sports Coaching Initiatives (1937-1947).' In Recording Leisure Lives Conference 2018: Cultures, Communities and Class in Leisure in 20th Century Britain. University of Bolton, 27/3/2018 -
Day, D.J., Loudcher, J.F. (2017) 'Transcultural Differences in Sports Coaching: Comparing France and England through the case of Wisdom and Hebert.' In European Committee for Sports History. University of Strasbourg, 7/12/2017 - 9/12/2017.
Day, D.J. (2017) 'Swimming Natationists, Mistresses and Matrons: Patriarchal Influences on Female Careers in Victorian Britain..' In 10th Meeting Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender and Sport. University of Vienna, Austria., 23/11/2017 - 25/11/2017. http://sportandgender2017.univie.ac.at/,
Day, D.J., Roberts, M. (2017) 'From the pool to the crystal tank and the circus ring: Female natationists in the Victorian period..' In Philip Astley and the Legacy of Modern Circus. MMU Cheshire, 26/9/2017 - 27/9/2017.
Day, D.J. (2017) 'Dewey’s Educational Theories and Coaching Practice.' In International Workshop. University of Bordeaux, France, 12/9/2017 - 14/9/2017.
Day, D.J., Roberts, M. (2017) 'The Beckwiths: A Conversation.' In British Society of Sports History Annual Conference. University of Worcester, 1/9/2017 - 2/9/2017.
Day, D.J. (2017) 'Female Swimming Teachers, Professionals and Baths Employees in late Victorian and Edwardian England..' In “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World”: Towards an Intersectional Analysis of International Sporting Institutions, Réseau d’Etudes des Relations Internationales Sportives,. Olympic and Sport Museum J.A. Samaranch (Fundació Barcelona Olímpica), 13/7/2017 - 15/7/2017.
Day, D.J. (2017) 'Bricoleurs Extraordinaire: Sports Coaches in Inter War Britain.' 5/9/2017 - 6/9/2017.
Day, D.J. (2017) 'A ‘Reducto ad Absurdum’ of the Meaning of Sport: Transatlantic Tensions over Coaching in the Early Twentieth Century..' In . First International Conference ‘Regionalism and Nationalism in Contemporary International Sport’. University of Vic, Catalonia, 28/6/2017 - 30/6/2017.
Day, D.J. (2017) 'Sports Coaching in England in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.' In Invited Guest Lecture. University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 7/6/2017 - 7/6/2017.
Day, D.J. (2017) 'Understanding the Victorian Social World through the Lens of Sports History.' In SpLeisH International Sports History and Leisure Colloquium. Crewe, England, 3/3/2017 - 4/3/2017.
Day, D.J. (2016) 'Coaching as Craft: Two Centuries of British Coaching.' 1/12/2016 - 1/12/2016.
Day, D.J. (2016) 'Dewey and His Implications for Coaching Practice.' 1/12/2016 - 1/12/2016.
Day, D.J. (2016) 'From Amateur Indifference to Olympic Excellence: A Century of British Sport.' 10/11/2016 - 10/11/2016.
Day, D.J. (2016) 'A ‘Symmetrical Body’: Amateurism, the ‘University Athlete’ and Attitudes to Professional Coaching in Late-Victorian Britain.' In Carrefours d'Histoire du Sport, French Society for Sports History. University of Lille, France, 24/10/2016 - 26/10/2016.
Day, D.J. (2016) 'Harry Koskie and Geoff Dyson: Sports Coaching in Britain after WWII..' 5/9/2016 - 7/9/2016.
Day, D.J. (2016) '‘We have every reason for failure but not a single excuse’: British Field Athletics in the early Twentieth Century.' 1/9/2016 - 2/9/2016.
Day, D.J. (2016) 'Class, Gender and Employment in England’s Victorian Public Baths..' 29/6/2016 - 2/7/2016.
Day, D.J. (2016) 'Those paid professors of the ‘dynamics of the human body’: Transatlantic tensions over sports coaching in the late nineteenth-century.' 8/6/2016 - 8/6/2016.
Day, D.J. (2016) 'Female Employees and the Victorian Public Baths: Post-1878.'
Day, D.J. (2015) 'The Female Bath Attendant: Nineteenth-Century Sport as a Driver of Gender Equality.'
Day, D.J. (2015) 'Geoff Dyson: Experience, the 'coaching eye' and learning 'on the job'..' 9/9/2015 - 10/9/2015.
Day, D.J. (2015) 'The Female Swimming Teacher in Victorian England: A Preliminary Analysis.' British Society of Sports History,
Day, D.J. (2015) 'The REF and Sports History.' 5/6/2015 - 5/6/2015.
Day, D.J. (2015) 'Natational Dress: Functionality and Morality among Female Swimming Exhibitors in Victorian Britain..' In SpLeisH International Sports Symposium. MMU Cheshire, 27/2/2015 - 28/2/2015.
Day, D.J. (2014) 'Victorian/Edwardian Sporting Dress: Male Athletes and Female Swimmers.' 31/10/2014 - 31/10/2014.
Day, D. (2014) '‘The committee is not in favour of professional coaches’: preparing for Paris in 1924..'
Day, D.J. (2014) 'Professor George Poulton.' In Manchester Histories Festival. Manchester, 21/3/2014 - 30/3/2014.
Day, D.J. (2014) 'The ‘English athlete is born not made’: Coaching, Amateurism, and Training in Britain 1912-1914.' In Sport and Leisure on the Eve of the First World War symposium. Manchester Metropolitan University, 27/6/2014 - 28/6/2014.
Day, D. (2013) 'The ’mysterious “training tables”’: British antipathy to an American coaching tradition.' In British Society of Sports History Annual Conference. Wychwood Park, Cheshire, 6/9/2013 - 7/9/2013.
Day, D.J. (2013) 'Victorian Coaching Communities: Exemplars of Traditional Practice.' 22/6/2013 - 23/6/2013.
Day, D.J. (2013) 'From 1860s Lambeth to Niagara in the 1900s: Imitation and Innovation Amongst Female Natationists.' 16/1/2013 - 16/1/2013.
Day, D. (2012) '‘Play it Again Sam’. Mussabini and Wisdom: a biographical conundrum.' In British Society of Sports History Annual Conference. Glasgow, 6/9/2012 - 7/9/2012.
Day, D. (2012) 'Romanticising the classical: the nineteenth-century amateur athlete.' In Ancients and Moderns: The 81st Anglo-American Conference of Historians. Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London, 5/7/2012 - 6/7/2012.
Day, D. (2012) 'Fit for purpose: the Victorian and Edwardian athletic body.' In The Natural Body Research Seminar. International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester, 27/4/2012 - 27/4/2012.
Day, D. (2012) 'Identity theft: Cora and Clara “Beckwith” and the invention of a natational lineage.' In Annual Conference of the Social History Society. University of Brighton, 3/4/2012 - 5/4/2012.
Day, D. (2012) '’A man cannot see his own faults’: British professional trainers and the modern olympics.' In Institute of Historical Research. London, 6/2/2012 - 6/2/2012.
Day, D. (2011) 'Developing ‘science’ and ‘wind’: eighteenth century sports training..' In Sport in Early Modern Culture. German Historical Institute, London, 17/11/2011 - 19/11/2011.
Oldfield, S. (2011) 'Narrative, biography and prosopography: historical method and its implications.' In Sports and Coaching: Pasts and Futures. Crewe, 25/6/2011 - 26/6/2011.
Day, D. (2011) 'Massaging the amateur ethos: professional coaches at Stockholm in 1912.' In Sports and Coaching: Pasts and Futures. Crewe, Cheshire, 25/6/2011 - 26/6/2011.
Carpenter, T.L., Day, D. (2011) 'The London Olympics, legacy and British coaching traditions..'
Day, D. (2011) 'Sport psychology: another cuckoo in the coaching nest.' In British Psychological Society, History and Philosophy of Psychology Section. Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 19/4/2011 - 21/4/2011.
Day, D. (2010) 'Coaching as craft: a forgotten legacy.' In British Society of Sports History Annual Conference. Wellcome Collection, London, 10/9/2010 - 11/9/2010.
Carpenter, T.L., Day, D. (2010) 'A precarious relationship: sport science and coaching.' In British Society of Sports History. Wellcome Collection, London, 10/9/2010 - 11/9/2010.
Oldfield, S. (2010) 'The coaching business: nineteenth century Manchester sporting entrepreneurs.' In British Society of Sports History Annual Conference. Wellcome Collection, London, 10/9/2010 - 11/9/2010.
Oldfield, S. (2010) 'The Manchester public house: sport and the entrepreneur.' In RIHSC Annual Conference. Manchester Metropolitan University, 1/7/2010 - 1/7/2010.
Day, D. (2010) 'The “discerning eye” of the Edwardian coach: identifying talent and preventing staleness.' In MMU RIHSC Annual Conference. Manchester, 1/7/2010 - 1/7/2010.
Carpenter, T.L., Day, D. (2010) 'Institutionalisation of sports science in British Sport.' In MMU RHISC Annual Conference. Manchester, 1/7/2010 - 1/7/2010.
Day, D.J. (2009) '"A Modern Naiad". Agnes Beckwith..' In National Trust. Staffordshire, 14/10/2009 - 14/10/2009.
Day, D. (2009) '“Science”, “wind” and “bottom”: late eighteenth century pugilism.' In MMU RHISC Annual Conference. Manchester, 1/7/2009 - 2/7/2009.
Oldfield, S., Day, D. (2009) 'Manchester pedestrianism 1840-1880: a collective biography of ‘sporting publicans’.' In Memories, Narratives and Histories Postgraduate Conference. Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research, University of Brighton, 9/6/2009 - 9/6/2009.
Day, D.J. (2009) 'Steaks, Stout and Strychnine.' 30/4/2009 - 30/4/2009.
Day, D. (2009) 'Walter Brickett: a respectable professor..' In Recording Leisure Lives. Leisure Studies Association, Bolton Museum, 7/4/2009 - 7/4/2009.
Day, D. (2008) '“A modern naiad”: nineteenth century female professional natationists.' In Women and Leisure 1890-1939. Womens History Network - Midland Region, Stoke, 8/11/2008 - 8/11/2008.
Day, D.J. (2008) 'Naiads and Mermaids: Female Imitators of Captain Webb.' In ESS Research Seminar Series. Cheshire, 6/11/2008 - 6/11/2008.
Day, D. (2008) 'Traditional coaching communities: “It’s not what you know but who you know”..' In MMU RHISC Annual Conference. Manchester, 1/7/2008 - 2/7/2008.
Day, D. (2008) 'Professors Beckwith and Brickett: from the “Aq” to the Olympics.' In Sports Coaching and the Sociological Imagination. MMU Alsager campus, 19/3/2008 - 19/3/2008.
Day, D. (2006) 'Sport psychology: another cuckoo in the coaching nest.' In Practices and Representations of Health: Historical Perspectives. Society for the Social History of Medicine, University of Warwick, 28/6/2006 - 30/6/2006.
Day, D.J. (2006) 'Modern Coaching Cultures: Scientised and Sanitised.' In International Sport Cultures. Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, 17/5/2006 - 17/5/2006.
Day, D.J., Atkin, I. (2006) 'The Emergence of the Sports Coach during the Long Nineteenth Century. An Exploration of Labour Processes of Organised Sport in Britain and America..' In International Labour Process Conference. London, 10/4/2006 - 12/4/2006.
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Theses and dissertations
Cooke, M.D. (2021) The emergence of Association Football in The Potteries, 1840-1880: people, clubs, and governance.
Dyer, L. (2018) The London and North Western Railway Company and the Crewe Alexandra Athletic Club in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.
James, G. (2015) The emergence, development and establishment of association football in Manchester.
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Other
Day, D.J. (2012) Walter Brickett.
Day, D.J. (2011) Frederick, Willie and Agnes Beckwith.
Day, D.J. (1996) Management in Coaching.