Matthew Brown on Sports History in South America
This episode features Matthew Brown, winner of the 2024 Lord Aberdare Book Prize, giving his Lord Aberdare Prize Keynote lecture, at the 2025 BSSH Conference at Ulster University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Professor Matthew Brown is professor of Latin American history at the University of Bristol.Professor Brown delivered a wonderful and engaging keynote that covered a wide-ranging overview of Sports within South America in the early 20th Century and interwar period, covering a variety of sports including soccer, swimming and Athletics and the pride or representation it gave to certain countries within South America in what was a wonderful start to the conference. There is also a brief introduction given by BSSH past chair and BSSH 2025 Conference Organiser, Dr Conor Heffernan, on the importance of sports within Northern Ireland and the importance of curiosity when addressing historical work. Thia podcast is a British Society of Sports History (BSSH) production from the UK's leading society for the history of sport.. You can find the podcast on all social media & major podcast platforms here.Likewise, Click through to the BSSH website for further information on our events and to find out how to join the British Society of Sport History: https://www.sportinhistory.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.