Posted by Brian Sanderson
On the 20 March I arrived at Huudersfield with rain falling.It started on time with Andrew Collomosse talking about the Press in sport and how it had changed.It was a excellent speech and left in the morning to watch a football match in the afternoon.
The next speaker was Mick Pope talking about Alonzo Drake his boyhood hero.He had a audio tape taken twenty years ago from a person who knew him and excellent photographs of his life. All together was a excellent speech.
Then Dave Walker talked about friendly cricket.Brought back memoirs about when I was the Secretary of Yorkshire Bank Cricket team when it was a friendly team in the 60,s.
To finish the morning was some poems on cricket.
An excellent morning.
After lunch in the Pub in started at 2P.M with some more poetry.First time I heard poetry about cricket excellent.
Then came Alan Stuttard talking about his cricket career in Lancashire Leagues .Very funny again.
Next Brian Heywood shown a film of a Lancashire league match in the 1940,s.Another excellent topic.
Finally Tony Hutton shown his slides of cricket grounds he visited last summer.Made you want the cricket season to start as soon as possible.
It was a excellent day which is a vital date in my diary.
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Saturday, 13 February 2010
International Cricket Conference for Huddersfield
Howzat!
The University of Huddersfield is set to host a major international cricket conference.
Entitled 'Cricket and Community: Local, National and Global Perspectives', it will take place in April next year.
And both academics and cricket enthusiasts will attend the two-day event.
Dr Peter Davies, Director of the university's Cricket Research Centre, said: "This is a major event for the university to stage and we are looking forward immensely to welcoming academics, students and cricket-lovers to Huddersfield."
Special guest at the conference will be Dr Boria Majumdar, a Calcutta-based academic who has written extensively about the history of Indian cricket and the modern global game.
Other speakers include Professor Tony Collins of Leeds Met University, Dr Dean Allen of Northumbria University and Dr Tony Bateman, Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the International Centre of Sport History and Culture, Leicester De Montfort University.
And topics covered will include cricket in colonial South Africa, cricket in the inter-war period, cricket in Brighouse and Todmorden, and the relationship between cricket and churches and cricket and public houses.
Dr Davies explained: "Huddersfield has gained a reputation for its cricket research in recent years and this conference will showcase what we've been doing.
"We want academics from around the world to know that the Cricket Research Centre is doing important work in this regard."
A number of national cricket organisations will have stalls at the event - and the conference proceedings will be published in the academic journal, Sport in Society.
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield, Professor Bob Cryan, will officially open the event.
The conference will take place on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 April 2010, and will also include a special visit to Lascelles Hall CC, one of the oldest and most famous cricket clubs in England.
It costs £50 (institutional) or £25 (individual) to attend.
Contact Dr Davies on 472405 or via p.j.davies@hud.ac.uk for further information.
Monday, 8 February 2010
Lecture on Women's Cricket
A pioneering cricket historian will be giving a special lecture at the University of Huddersfield.
Dr Philippa Velija, a senior lecturer in Sociology at York St. John University, will be speaking on women and cricket.
And the provocative title of her session is: '"They're all male chauvinistic chumps - Howzat for a view?": Media Representations of Female Cricketers from 1998-2008'.
Dr Velija will be lecturing at the University of Huddersfield Cricket Research Centre - and she'll be the third guest lecturer this academic year.
"It will be wonderful to welcome Dr Velija to Huddersfield," said Centre coordinator Dr Peter Davies.
"She is a distinguished sociologist who has written a number of pathbreaking articles on the sociology of cricket."
Dr Velija's research interests include gender and sport, sport and social exclusion, and sport and social theory.
Her publications include, ‘"Look it’s a Girl": Cricket and Gender Relations in the UK’ (Sport in Society) and ‘Female Incursions into Cricket’s “Male Preserve”’ in Tribal Play: Sport Subcultures and Countercultures.
She has also given papers at the Commonwealth Cricket Conference in London and in Montreal, Buenos Aires and Thessaloniki.
The lecture is on Wednesday 24 February – 5.15-6.45 in Room W2/43, Queensgate Campus, University of Huddersfield. All welcome.
See http://www2.hud.ac.uk/mhm/history/research/cricket for more details or contact Dr Davies on 01484 472405 or via p.j.davies@hud.ac.uk.
Dr Philippa Velija, a senior lecturer in Sociology at York St. John University, will be speaking on women and cricket.
And the provocative title of her session is: '"They're all male chauvinistic chumps - Howzat for a view?": Media Representations of Female Cricketers from 1998-2008'.
Dr Velija will be lecturing at the University of Huddersfield Cricket Research Centre - and she'll be the third guest lecturer this academic year.
"It will be wonderful to welcome Dr Velija to Huddersfield," said Centre coordinator Dr Peter Davies.
"She is a distinguished sociologist who has written a number of pathbreaking articles on the sociology of cricket."
Dr Velija's research interests include gender and sport, sport and social exclusion, and sport and social theory.
Her publications include, ‘"Look it’s a Girl": Cricket and Gender Relations in the UK’ (Sport in Society) and ‘Female Incursions into Cricket’s “Male Preserve”’ in Tribal Play: Sport Subcultures and Countercultures.
She has also given papers at the Commonwealth Cricket Conference in London and in Montreal, Buenos Aires and Thessaloniki.
The lecture is on Wednesday 24 February – 5.15-6.45 in Room W2/43, Queensgate Campus, University of Huddersfield. All welcome.
See http://www2.hud.ac.uk/mhm/history/research/cricket for more details or contact Dr Davies on 01484 472405 or via p.j.davies@hud.ac.uk.
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
New Cricket Book - Order Now!
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TWO MEN AND A BLOG
Cricket Diary 2009
Tony Hutton & Peter Davies
Foreword by Joe Sayers, Yorkshire CCC and England Lions
Two Men and a Blog charts the cricket-watching adventures of Tony Hutton and Peter Davies in 2009. Tony, who lives in Leeds, and Peter, based in Huddersfield, spent most of their summer on the boundary edge. Much of their cricket-watching took place in Yorkshire and Lancashire but they also ventured into the Midlands, the South of England, Wales and Scotland. While Tony concentrates on visiting some of the most obscure grounds in the country, Peter takes more than a passing interest in cricket teas.
60,000 WORDS, 176 PAGES, 16 COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS – PRICE £5
All profits to ‘The Cricketing Heritage of Calderdale and Kirklees’ Project.
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TWO MEN AND A BLOG
Cricket Diary 2009
Tony Hutton & Peter Davies
Foreword by Joe Sayers, Yorkshire CCC and England Lions
Two Men and a Blog charts the cricket-watching adventures of Tony Hutton and Peter Davies in 2009. Tony, who lives in Leeds, and Peter, based in Huddersfield, spent most of their summer on the boundary edge. Much of their cricket-watching took place in Yorkshire and Lancashire but they also ventured into the Midlands, the South of England, Wales and Scotland. While Tony concentrates on visiting some of the most obscure grounds in the country, Peter takes more than a passing interest in cricket teas.
60,000 WORDS, 176 PAGES, 16 COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS – PRICE £5
All profits to ‘The Cricketing Heritage of Calderdale and Kirklees’ Project.
www.ckcricketheritage.org.uk - p.j.davies@hud.ac.uk
ORDER FORM
I would like to order ___ copies of TWO MEN AND A BLOG @ £6 each inc P&P = £
Name & Address: _____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
(Please make cheques payable to UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD and send to:
Dr Peter Davies, School of Music, Humanities & Media, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH)
Sunday, 27 December 2009
Snow and Custard
Posted by Peter Davies
A new blogging year begins at North Leeds CC - the annual, and very bizarre, Boxing Day challenge match. This year the ground is covered in snow, except for a small, thin rectangular area: the wicket. Big hits pitch in the snow and then stop. Hence the low first-innings total of 70-odd. Ironically, the day was actually quite nice: blue sky, sunshine and nice crisp air. The pavilion was doing a good trade in rather delicate hot dogs and some gorgeous piping hot mince pies, plus tea and coffee. In attendance were 50-odd local cricket enthusiasts, many connected with the Northern Cricket Society. I arrived with David Thorpe and Brian Senior, and my 2009 blogging pal, Tony Hutton, was doing fine work publicising and selling Two Men and a Blog. We had a wander round the boundary edge but were disappointed that the Test match from South Africa wasn't on the pavilion TV. The NCS XI were vanquished on the field and David, Brian and myself headed off for lunch - a gargantuan carvery meal at a pub on Wetherby Road. £3.50 for the mammoth meal was amazing value and the £2 apple and blackberry pie (with custard) also hit the spot.
A new blogging year begins at North Leeds CC - the annual, and very bizarre, Boxing Day challenge match. This year the ground is covered in snow, except for a small, thin rectangular area: the wicket. Big hits pitch in the snow and then stop. Hence the low first-innings total of 70-odd. Ironically, the day was actually quite nice: blue sky, sunshine and nice crisp air. The pavilion was doing a good trade in rather delicate hot dogs and some gorgeous piping hot mince pies, plus tea and coffee. In attendance were 50-odd local cricket enthusiasts, many connected with the Northern Cricket Society. I arrived with David Thorpe and Brian Senior, and my 2009 blogging pal, Tony Hutton, was doing fine work publicising and selling Two Men and a Blog. We had a wander round the boundary edge but were disappointed that the Test match from South Africa wasn't on the pavilion TV. The NCS XI were vanquished on the field and David, Brian and myself headed off for lunch - a gargantuan carvery meal at a pub on Wetherby Road. £3.50 for the mammoth meal was amazing value and the £2 apple and blackberry pie (with custard) also hit the spot.
Sunday, 20 December 2009
Batley CC bonanza
The Batley CC presentation evening was a wonderful event to be invited to.
The Al-Hikmah Islamic Centre, in Mount Pleasant, had been hired out for the evening and there must have been more than 100 people in attendance - players plus friends of the club. Farid Karolia - who does lots of work for both BCC and nearby Mount CC - was on the top table alongside the swarve MC for the night, Mr Bhana.
The top performers of the year were awarded with cups and trophies and a number of VIPs made very strong and passionate speeches including Mike Wood MP, cricket goods tycoon Solly Adam, Yorkshire CCC official Tony Bowry, and a couple of local councillors. Farid also finished off the evening with some of his famous jokes!
Then for the food! Lots of curry - both savoury and sweet - with salad accessories and Coca-Cola. It was a night for Batley CC folk to feel very proud of their club. And it goes back a long way - to the late 19C when they were a major force in the Heavy Woollen Cup and when WG.Grace once played at Mount Pleasant...
The Al-Hikmah Islamic Centre, in Mount Pleasant, had been hired out for the evening and there must have been more than 100 people in attendance - players plus friends of the club. Farid Karolia - who does lots of work for both BCC and nearby Mount CC - was on the top table alongside the swarve MC for the night, Mr Bhana.
The top performers of the year were awarded with cups and trophies and a number of VIPs made very strong and passionate speeches including Mike Wood MP, cricket goods tycoon Solly Adam, Yorkshire CCC official Tony Bowry, and a couple of local councillors. Farid also finished off the evening with some of his famous jokes!
Then for the food! Lots of curry - both savoury and sweet - with salad accessories and Coca-Cola. It was a night for Batley CC folk to feel very proud of their club. And it goes back a long way - to the late 19C when they were a major force in the Heavy Woollen Cup and when WG.Grace once played at Mount Pleasant...
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Review of USA Lecture
Review of Professor Jeff Hill's lecture on Cricket in the USA - 9 December, University of Huddersfield Cricket Research Centre
Cricket in America? Yes, said Jeff Hill as he traced the fascinating history of the sport in the USA and Canada. This historical overview was the prelude to a detailed analysis of Joseph O'Neill's novel Netherland - a story of cricketing dreams, hatched by a Trinidadian and Dutchman, in post-9/11 New York. Jeff's argument was that America should not be ignored when it comes to cricket and the book was used as significant evidence. He was particularly interested in the way in which cricket was a 'solace' for protagonist Hans.
Jeff's thoughts were both provocative and expertly delivered. The audience included cricket historian Jack Williams, Northumbria University cricket resaercher Dean Allen, Derek Barnard of The Cricket Society, former University of Huddersfield vice-chancellor Brendan Evans and a range of local cricketing folk including Andrew Smith (Illingworth CC), Bob Horne (Lightcliffe CC), Dave Walker (Old Almondburians CC), veteran local player Peter Dibb and several cricket enthusiasts from the Leeds area.
Cricket in America? Yes, said Jeff Hill as he traced the fascinating history of the sport in the USA and Canada. This historical overview was the prelude to a detailed analysis of Joseph O'Neill's novel Netherland - a story of cricketing dreams, hatched by a Trinidadian and Dutchman, in post-9/11 New York. Jeff's argument was that America should not be ignored when it comes to cricket and the book was used as significant evidence. He was particularly interested in the way in which cricket was a 'solace' for protagonist Hans.
Jeff's thoughts were both provocative and expertly delivered. The audience included cricket historian Jack Williams, Northumbria University cricket resaercher Dean Allen, Derek Barnard of The Cricket Society, former University of Huddersfield vice-chancellor Brendan Evans and a range of local cricketing folk including Andrew Smith (Illingworth CC), Bob Horne (Lightcliffe CC), Dave Walker (Old Almondburians CC), veteran local player Peter Dibb and several cricket enthusiasts from the Leeds area.
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