This is the first book to introduce key themes in the study of women’s rugby from multi-disciplinary perspectives, including history, sociology, gender studie

Longlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2020 'This pioneering memoir . . . engagingly balances the highs of captaincy and grand slams with striking

This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twent

A new, transformative history – in Tudor times there were Black people living and working in Britain, and they were free ‘This is history on the cutting edg

This book explores the connections between women's experiences of and contributions to sport as a profession, product and pastime. This collection brings togeth