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Tag Archives: sport

High Performing Women: Sports and Sparkly Socks

February 21, 2014

Helen Grant, the Minister for Sports, Equalities and Tourism made a suggestion today about two parts of her portfolio which …

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College Football: Ohio State vs University of Central Florida

May 20, 2013

Welcome to Game of the Week.  With our abiding interest in the intersection of culture and academe, and the fact …

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Not That Kind of Gridiron: College Football and Performance Studies

October 24, 2012

I’ve started writing a weekly series called Game of the Week: The View From England on US college football this season.  Aside …

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Caliban and Brunel: Kenneth Branagh’s Speech at the Olympics Opening Ceremony

July 29, 2012

One of the climactic (and most discussed) moments of the London Olympics opening ceremony was the speech Kenneth Branagh delivered …

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Boyle, Branagh and Bonkers: the Olympic Opening Ceremony

July 28, 2012

Having watched the ceremony and written a recap, I’m still not quite sure how I feel about it.  Putting Danny …

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My latest book investigates a literary urban legend about Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible - my book on the history and use of these two texts.

Recent Posts

  • Guns in the Vicarage: On the Textual Criticism of Detective Fiction
  • Dangerous Dolphins and Old-fashioned Fish: A Pair of Ngaio Marsh Detective Covers
  • Having Faith in Fantasy: A lecture on the theologies of Narnia and Middle Earth
  • The tenses of the verbs: A sermon on the Visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth
  • Midcentury Jacobeans: Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and “The Duchess of Malfi”

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