World of Sport examines the development of modern sport from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s in the light of transnational approaches to history.
Matthew Taylor is Professor of History at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. He has written widely on the social, cultural and international history of sport. His publications include Moving with the Ball: The Migration of Professional Footballers (2001, with Pierre Lanfranchi) and Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45 (2020).
