Sports Knight

A Hundred Years of Sporting Knights and Dames

Peter Donaldson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2026
Pitch Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-83680-291-4 (ISBN)

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Sports Knight uncovers the life stories behind the nation’s sporting knights and dames, offering a compelling alternative history of British sport and society across the past century. Why were these sporting greats held up as national role models? And what does this say about our priorities and values? Inevitably, the book features more men than women, more rich than poor and more white people than black people. That, in itself, is revealing. For no matter what we think of the selection process (‘an utter crapshoot’ is the view of one national newspaper), the stories of the sporting heroes whom the government has chosen to honour with a title tell us much about the history of British sport and society. The six-time Olympic champion Chris Hoy once said, ‘To become a knight from riding a bike – it’s mad!’ And he’s right: it is mad. But, as Sports Knight shows, there is method in the madness.

Peter Donaldson used to teach modern British history at the University of Kent. He is the author of five books, including And the Winner Is: 70 Years of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year and Sport, War and the British, which was shortlisted for the British Society of Sports History’s Lord Aberdare Literary Prize. He has yet to be knighted for sport or nominated for SPOTY.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.6.2026
Verlagsort	Hove
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
ISBN-10	1-83680-291-9 / 1836802919
ISBN-13	978-1-83680-291-4 / 9781836802914
Zustand	Neuware