Description: Examines all aspects of sport over the last 2,800 years: from technological developments to nationalism, from issues of race and gender to violence and eroticism.
Brief description: Wray Vamplew is Emeritus Professor of Sports History at the University of Stirling, where he was appointed as Scotland's first Chair in Sports History, and Global Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has authored and edited more than twenty books, including most recently, Numbers and Narratives: Sport, History and Economics (2018).