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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: How Football Explains British History - Jonathan
  Wilson (Guardian football correspondent &amp\; book author)\, Kevin Moore
  (Director of the Football Museum)\, and Philippe Auclair (France Football
 )
DTSTART:20110517T160000Z
DTEND:20110517T173000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Bernhard Fulda
DESCRIPTION:The Public and Popular History seminar is pleased to announce 
 this term's highlight\, on Tuesday 17th\, at 5pm\, in the Bateman Auditori
 um in Gonville and Caius: a panel discussion entitled "How Football Explai
 ns British History"\, featuring this country's leading football experts wi
 th a history background: Jonathan Wilson (Guardian football correspondent 
 & book author)\, Kevin Moore (Director of the Football Museum)\, and Phili
 ppe Auclair (France Football).\n\nHow do we account for the very strange\,
  almost unexplainable absence of the world’s most popular and most unive
 rsal game in mainstream historiography? Why is it that cultural historians
  have produced more research on opera and avantgarde theatre than on footb
 all? And even those allegedly interested in popular culture rarely have an
 ything to say about it – perhaps because it is too popular for its own g
 ood? This panel discussion will engage with how exactly football history l
 inks up with British history\, and how Marxist\, structuralist and Annales
  historiography did away with the foremost cultural phenomenon of the 20th
  century\, and got away with it. Everyone welcome!
LOCATION:Bateman Auditorium\, Gonville &amp\; Caius
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