Tony Collins (historian)

Tony Collins
Born	Antony Collins Hull, UK
Occupation	Historian, lecturer
Language	English
Nationality	British
Subject	Sports history (esp. rugby football), Social history (esp. class)
Website
tcollins.org

Tony Collins is a British sports and social historian and author specialising in Northern England and rugby football.^[1][2]

Collins is a Professor of history and the Director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University.^[3] He also acts as a historical consultant to the Rugby Football League. Collins has been described as rugby league football's "leading historian".^[4] He has produced a range of material on the history of sports and the social contexts of events; as well as rugby league, Collins has written about rugby union.^[2]

Collins has three times been awarded the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History book of the year.^[3] His books, Rugby's Great Split, Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain and A Social History of English Rugby Union, winning in 1999, 2007 and 2010 respectively.

Bibliography

Monographs

• Sport in Capitalist Society (2013), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-813556

• A Social History of English Rugby Union (2009), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-47660-7^[5]

• Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain (2006), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-39615-8^[6]

• Rugby's Great Split (2nd Revised Edition) (2006), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-39617-2^[7]

• Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol (written with Wray Vamplew) (2002), Berg, ISBN 1-85973-558-4^[8]

• Rugby's Great Split (1998), Frank Cass, ISBN 0-7146-4354-8^[9]

Essay Collections

• 1895 And All That (2009), Scratching Shed Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9560075-9-9^[10]

Edited books

• Encyclopedia of traditional British rural sports (edited with John Martin and Wray Vamplew) (2005), Routledge, ISBN 0-415-35224-X^[11]

• The Glory of their Times: crossing the colour line in rugby league (edited with Phil Melling) (2004), Vertical, ISBN 978-1-904091-07-3

Lectures

• ’Ahr Waggy’ : Harold Wagstaff and the making of Anglo-Australian rugby league culture (2003), 5th Annual Tom Brock Lecture, ISBN 0-7334-2154-7^[12]

External links

• tcollins.org, personal website of Tony Collins
• rugbyreloaded.com, a blog about rugby football written by Tony Collins
• 1895 & all that .... the Past, Present & Future of Rugby., lecture delivered by Tony Collins, 29 August 2007.

References

1. Redfern, Simon (5 April 2009). "Sports Book of the Week: A Social History of English Rugby Union, by Tony Collins". The Independent. Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
2. Harris, John (11 June 2009). "A Social History of English Rugby Union". Times Higher Education. Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
3. Bridge, Bill (20 February 2009). "Collins has tackled the origins of rugby's great divide head-on". Yorkshire Post. Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
4. Richards, Huw (6 May 2010). "Rugby league reaches out". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 30 January 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
5. "A social history of English Rugby Union / Tony Collins.". British Library. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
6. "Rugby League in twentieth century Britain : a social and cultural history / Tony Collins". British Library. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
7. "Rugby's great split : class, culture and the origins of rugby league football / Tony Collins.". British Library. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
8. "Mud, sweat and beers : a cultural history of sport and alcohol / Tony Collins and Wray Vamplew.". British Library. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
9. "Rugby's great split : class, culture and the origins of Rugby League football / Tony Collins.". British Library. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
10. Richards, Huw (12 December 2009). "Christmas books: sport". The Gear. The Guardian. Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
11. "Encyclopedia of traditional British rural sports / edited by Tony Collins, John Martin, and Wray Vamplew.". British Library. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
12. "'Ahr Waggy' : Harold Wagstaff and the making of Anglo-Australian rugby league culture / Tony Collins.". British Library. Retrieved 23 April 2010.