The next International Football History Conference will be held on 11-13 Jun 2026 at Fulham’s Craven Cottage in London. #Footycon26
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Our Call For Papers/Presentations is now live for the International Football History Conference 2026. Get your proposals in for what promises to be another great conference. #Footycon26
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One of our most chaotic annual Team Photos so I’ve posted a few options. Hopefully all those who attended day one of #footycon26 will see themselves here.
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I’ll post more after a few days’ rest but it’s been a busy few days as one of the organisers of #footycon26 where I also did a presentation on Pickles. The new display in #Croydon I’ve helped research and write was put up a few days ago too. If you’re in Croydon look out for it.
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All the action from this year's Footycon at Fulham Pier
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We finish the conference with two short presentations by 2/3 of our organising committee as Max Portman (@WestHamSyndrome) & Gary James (@GaryJamesWriter) talk about I’m forever blowing bubbles and Pickles the dog
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Our final session of #footycon26 is underway and we start with Malcolm Dowden tells us about the famous Welsh rugby historian WJT Collins
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To round out this penultimate session of #Footycon26, we have Christian Schröder discussing confessional and migrant football communities in Germany
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Up next, we have @GollnerPhilipp focusing on Ivica Osim, the last coach of the Yugoslav team and how his story deserves so much more attention than it currently gets from the international football history community
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After lunch and a brief excursion across to the Press conference room, we’re back with @MarkAOrton talking to @GaryJamesWriter about football and how the Yugoslav wars keep shaping international football
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But our final presentation in markers 2 before lunch on day 2 of #Footycon26 is Walter Hunt, winner of our best paper prize in … discussing the commentary of legendary commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme
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Walter has also got a recent book out with @softwoodbooks, which is available to buy on Amazon and is about Walter’s life in and around football, with Walter’s huge love for Newport Pagnell
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@FootyCon if any delegates who enjoyed the reading yesterday want a Father’s Day gift for the football mad dad in your life… you can buy a copy on ebay.us/m/jxDqgd and I’ll dedicate/ sign and send in time for next Sunday…
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But our final presentation in markers 3 before lunch on day 2 of #Footycon26 is Stuart Gibbs, winner of last years Richard Cox prize with the @BritSportHisSoc being interviewed by Dil Porter about Lily Flexmore, an interesting character in women’s football history.
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Jun 13
Softwood author, Walter Hunt presents his paper at this weekend's International Football History Conference @FootyCon
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