Tony Collins is Emeritus Professor of History at De Montfort University. He was Director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture from 2011 to 2013 and before that the Head of the Institute of Northern Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University.
Tony has also served as a committee member for the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Yorkshire Region, been a trustee of Rugby League Cares, and a member of the committee of the World Rugby Museum at Twickenham. In 2018 he was a visiting professor at Beijing Sports University.
Tony has published extensively on the social history of sport around the world, and his books have won the Aberdare Prize for Sports History Book of the Year four times.
His major works include:
Who Framed William Webb Ellis? (…and other puzzles in rugby history). (Scratching Shed Publishing, 2022)
Rugby League: A People’s History (Scratching Shed Publishing, 2020)
How Football Began: A Global History of the Birth of the World’s Football Codes (Routledge, 2019)
The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby (Bloomsbury 2015)
Sport in Capitalist Society: A Concise History (Routledge 2012)
A Social History of English Rugby Union (Routledge 2009)
Rugby League in 20th Century Britain (Routledge 2006)
Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol [with Wray Vamplew] (Berg, 2002)
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