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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
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Publications
Books
Articles
- 2003 Quoted in "When
Sport Marches into History" on BBCi News
[20/11/03]
- 2003
(in press) 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)
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