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SESA is saddened that Dennis Jones had to put his distribution company Dennis Jones & Associates into administration…
SESA is delighted to announce the publication of ’s The Game That Never Happened: The Vanishing History of Soccer in…
in the Nineteenth Century: They Did Not Come from Nowhere ISBN: 9781527526488 Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle…
Rangers hit Golden Plains for six in Geelong Community Cup (Click on pictures below to enlarge them) Geelong Rangers…
On 14 November 2017 the members of the Australian football team that went to Saigon and won our first international…
50th Anniversary of the victory in Vietnam In 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War, the Australian government, led by…
Aboriginal Australian men playing football in a paddock at Coranderrk. N. J Caire 1837-1918, photographer. State…
(Click on the photographs below to enlarge them) Corio have appeared in the last five finals of the Geelong Community…
Corio will be an unbackable favourite to win the Geelong Community Cup on Sunday when it takes on newcomer Golden…
(Click on the images below to enlarge them) In probably the biggest upset in the long history of the Geelong pre-season…
A statue of Hungarian and world football’s all time great players, coaches and inspirations, Ferenc Puskas, was…
In 2017, as we struggle as a society to find ways of understanding and accepting people who do not apparently conform…
In 2017, as we struggle as a society to find ways of understanding and accepting people who do not apparently conform…
A Missing Part of the National Narrative Much has been written about sport in Australia. Much more has been written…
This article appeared in Leopold Method in May 2015 just after the launch of the Whole of Football twenty year plan by…
Football on Corio Oval in 1913, the Geelong Football Club's home ground from 1878 until the Second World War. Source…
We all know the rules to the senior game but do you remember the rules of Primary School playground fitba? (In other…
(An abbreviated version of this story appeared as 'Butler ready to serve', in the Geelong Advertiser, Friday 1 May…
(This article first appeared in the Almanac on 3 April 2015 at…
Phil Mosely Soccer in New South Wales, 1880–1980 has just been published by SESA and Vulgar Press, Bannockburn and…
If you have any interest in the World Game in Australia then & Bill Murray, A History of Football in Australia: A Game…
[1] Nelson Mandela, the recently deceased former president of the Republic of South Africa, was always conscious of the…
Footy Town (first published in Neos Osmos, 16 June 2013) Where is the heart of football when the game at top level is…
Melbourne Heart 0 Adelaide United 2 After an exciting start in which the home team could have scored several goals…
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Jack Elkes of England shoots for goal in the match against Western Australia at Fremantle Oval on 9 May 1925. The Western Australian players from the…
The Black Isle on the left from above Beauly. Ian Rankin, Standing in another man’s grave, Orion Books, London, 2012…
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(The text of this article appeared as a Blast from the Past in Goal Weekly on 16 March 2012, p. 19. All photos from the Laurie Schwab and collections…
It is with deep sadness and regret that we pass on the news that Helen Schwab tragically drowned while swimming in…
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(This article appeared in Goal Weekly, Friday 23 March 2012, p. 19 and is reproduced here with the permission of the editor Costa Koutropoulos, who…
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From Emus to Socceroos: The real origins of national team’s name at last and David Hearder (This story first appeared in Goal Weekly, 24 February…
(A shortened version of this article appeared as 'That's quite a lot for a Scot to deal with,' in the Geelong…
(This article appeared as 'Shootin' it Stateside,' in Goal Weekly, ( December 2011, p.19). Bruce Arena, David Beckham’s…
(This appeared in the Geelong Advertiser, on 5 December 2011, p. 20 as 'Book it now, Winnie. Diversions, plagiarism and…
(A shorter version of this article appeared in the Geelong Advertiser, 2 December 2011, p. 34, under the title 'Kicking…
The Deakin University Arts building on the Waurn Ponds campus In defence of the humanities This article was published…
The Tom Wills saga Published in the Geelong Advertiser, 20 October 2011, p. 40. The campaign for the recognition of Tom…
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Published in the Geelong Advertiser, 28 September 2011, p. 22 as 'Reconciling price, real vlaue is just trouble.' This column does not offer…
Annie Wakeford (extreme left) and Norma May Mawson (second left) welcome the Victorian Minister for Housing, Wendy…
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Deakin University Originally published as: , ‘A new look at soccer violence’, in Denis Hemphill, All part of the game: Violence and Australian Sport…
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The item below appeared in the Sunday Age Sport, 1 May 2011, p. 28. Caption for photograph Celtic Football Club, 1908, with Charity, Scottish and…
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A flare at the Melbourne Victory versus Melbourne Heart derby in January 2011 Football fans and violence: what is really going on? The blogosphere…
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Deakin University Arts and Education building Finance and organisation of Australian higher education Politicians love to talk about Australia as the…
is a political thriller set in the near future. Scotland is independent and Edinburgh has been chosen as the site of a…
Exhibition Catalogue. , with an introduction by Ruth Rentschler, Paul Turner and Pamm Kellett. This is the catalogue to…
Life membership of the Federation As part of the settlement which saw the Victorian Soccer Federation (VSF) succeed the…
Catherine Wells, with the assistance of Roy and , Catherine Wells: An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman The biography of…
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SESA and Deakin University, 'Is there anything to be learned from history?', 2025: Work, Ethics and Values: Labouring ideals in the 21st Century…
Shaun Cannon, ed., Work, Ethics, Values: Perceptions on Labouring Ideals in the Century Ahead, Melbourne Catholic…
Bill Murray and (eds) The World Game Downunder, Australian Society for Sports History, ASSH Studies no. 19, Melbourne…
J R Hay, The Origins of the Liberal Welfare Reforms, 1906-1914, Macmillan for the Economic History Society, London…
J R Hay, (ed.) The Development of the British Welfare State, 1880-1975, Documents of Modern History, Edward Arnold…
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Talk to U3A tutors 23 November 2005 by , SESA and Deakin University. I am extremely privileged to be here to talk to you tonight. That is not just a…
Catherine Wells, Poems and Adages Down the Ages, privately published, Dingwall, Scotland, 2005, 23 pages, available…
Matthew Nicholson, Bob Stewart and Rob Hess, eds, Football Fever: Moving the Goalposts, Maribyrnong Press, Melbourne…
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The Australian Society for Sports History has made significant contributions to sports history over the years, but it probably caused its greatest…
David Lowe and Don Gibb, with Bill Anderson, Breaking the mould: Deakin University, the first twenty five years, Deakin…
Andrew Fisher was Prime Minister of Australia three times—1908–09, 1910–13 and 1914–15. His second government…
James Dun Hay, 1881-1940: The Story of a Footballer This is the footballing life story of James ‘Dun’ Hay, 1881-1940…
'Celtic and Australia,' The Celt, 100, February 2006, pp. 28-31. How do you recognise the contribution of Eugene…
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'Soccer in Geelong since the War,' Investigator, No. 116, vol 29, No. 3, September 1994, pp. 87-108. Click on link below. Post war soccer in Geelong
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‘Soccer in Geelong between the Wars’, Investigator, No. 115, vol 29, No. 2, June 1994, pp. 47-60. Click on link below. Geelong Soccer between the Wars
Richard Annois, With Respect: The Story of Geelong Lawyers Harwood & Pincott, 1840–1992, Thislot Press, Highton…
This is the story of the Geelong Chamber of Commerce and its members since its foundation in 1853. After a hiatus in…
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The history of the College is available. and , The Boys on Newtown Hill: A history of St Joseph’s College, Geelong, 1935-2007, SESA and St Joseph’s…
Bill Murray and (eds) The World Game Downunder, ASSH Studies in Sports History, no. 19, Australian Society for Sports…
and , The Boys on Newtown Hill: A history of St Joseph’s College, Geelong, 1935-2007, SESA and St Joseph’s College…
The book costs $35.00 plus $10.00 postage and handling. Please contact the Development Manager at St Joseph's College…
Now available from SESA or Teesdale General Store, Highbury Tea Rooms, corner of Bruce and Willis Streets, Teesdale and…
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Australian and British Soccer Weekly, 20 February 2007, p. 18. Reviewed by Alan Clark The rejuvenation of football in Australia arose as a…
Green Gully Soccer Club and SESA are proud to announce the publication of: Peter Desira, with Richard Curmi, Green…
Geelong Advertiser Cup Souvenir Record 1981-2005 Compiled by This is the complete illustrated history of the Geelong…
published. Copies are available from the Geelong Chamber of Commerce, Victorian Business Centre, 69 Moorabool Street…
Susan Kruss, Bethany: Serving the Community, A Social History, 1977-2007, Bethany Community Support Inc., Geelong 2008
Peter Burke and June Senyard, eds, Behind the Play: Football in Australia, Maribyrnong Press, Melbourne, 2008. Contains…
For the full story see The Croatia Story (forthcoming) or a briefer account in , ‘British Football, Wogball or the…
and G A McLean, A History of the Geelong Chamber of Commerce, 1853-2005, SESA in association with the Geelong Chamber…
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An article by on the real costs of sport is in the current issue of Ken Davidson's magazine Dissent, No. 28, Summer 2008/2009, pp. 58-60. Quite…
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is editing a new history of the Atheneaum in Melbourne, written by Susan Kruss