'A MAN CANNOT SEE HIS OWN FAULTS': BRITISH PROFESSIONAL TRAINERS AND THE 1912 OLYMPICS

Speaker: Dr David Day (University of Cambridge)

Dr. Dave Day is a senior lecturer in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at Manchester Metropolitan University where his research interests focus on the history of coaching practice and training and the biographies of nineteenth and early twentieth century British coaches. He completed his doctorate at De Montfort University on coaching practices and coaching lives in nineteenth and early twentieth century England in 2008, and has had articles published in Sport in History and in the Leisure Studies Association Publication series.

Time and Date: 5:15 PM, Monday, 6th February.

Location: Bloomsbury Room (Room G35), Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.

All are welcome. For more information, please contact Dion Georgiou, at sportshistory@hotmail.co.uk.