Prof Dave Day

Academic and professional qualifications

Cert Ed., BA, MSc, PhD

Previous employment

Secondary PE teaching; College lecturer; Fulltime professional swimming coach

Research expertise

History of Coaching and Training; Biographies of coaches; History of pedestrianism, boxing and swimming.

Publications

• Featured Works

  D. Day, T. Carpenter (2015). A History of Sports Coaching in Britain Overcoming Amateurism. Routledge.

  D. Day (2015). From Lambeth to Niagara: Imitation and Innovation among Female Natationists. Sport in History. 35(3), pp.364-390.

  D. Day, S-J. Oldfield (2015). Delineating Professional and Amateur Athletic Bodies in Victorian England. Sport in History. 35(1), pp.19-45.

  G. James, D. Day (2014). The Emergence of an Association Football Culture in Manchester 1840–1884. Sport in History. 34(1), pp.49-74.

  D. Day Professionals, amateurs and performance: sports coaching in England, 1789-1914. Peter Lang.

• Books (authored/edited/special issues)

  D. Day (2021). Sports Coaching in Europe Cultural Histories. Routledge.

  D. Day, M. Roberts (2019). Swimming Communities in Victorian England. Palgrave Macmillan.

  D. Day (2017). Methodology in Sports History.

  D. Day (2016). Sport and Leisure on the Eve of the First World War. DJ. Day. MMU Sport and Leisure History (SpLeisH).

  D. Day, T. Carpenter (2015). A History of Sports Coaching in Britain Overcoming Amateurism. Routledge.

  DJ. Day (2014). Pedestrianism. Manchester: MMU Sport and Leisure History.

  D. Day (2013). Sport and Leisure Histories. D. Day. Manchester: MMU Sport and Leisure History Cluster.

  D. Day Sporting lives. Manchester Metropolitan University, Institute for Performance Research.

  D. Day Sports and coaching: pasts and futures. Manchester Metropolitan University.

  D. Day Professionals, amateurs and performance: sports coaching in England, 1789-1914. Peter Lang.

• Journal articles

  D. Day Coach migration and the sharing of British expertise: some historical perspectives. Sports Coaching Review.

  D. Day ‘For Those Who Like the Life Nothing Could Be Better’: The Games Mistress in 1920s Britain †. Social Sciences. 13(4), pp.212-212.

  D. Day, M. Roberts (2021). Swimming beyond the Metropolis: The Kent Street Baths in Victorian Birmingham. Midland History. 46(2), pp.192-206.

  D. Day, M. Roberts (2019). From Butlins to Europe: Fodens Ladies in the 1960s and 1970s. Sport in History. 39(4), pp.418-444.

  D. Day (2019). Swimming into modernity: innovation and invention amongst aquatic craft communities in Victorian England. Leisure/Loisir.

  L. Dyer, D. Day (2017). The industrial middle class and the development of sport and in a railway town. Sport in History. 37(2), pp.164-182.

  D. Day, W. Vamplew (2015). Sports History Methodology: Old and New. The International Journal of the History of Sport. 32(15), pp.1715-1724.

  G. James, D. Day (2015). FA Cup success, football infrastructure and the establishment of Manchester’s footballing identity. Soccer and Society. 16(2-3), pp.200-216.

  D. Day (2015). From Lambeth to Niagara: Imitation and Innovation among Female Natationists. Sport in History. 35(3), pp.364-390.

  D. Day, S-J. Oldfield (2015). Delineating Professional and Amateur Athletic Bodies in Victorian England. Sport in History. 35(1), pp.19-45.

  G. James, D. Day (2014). The Emergence of an Association Football Culture in Manchester 1840–1884. Sport in History. 34(1), pp.49-74.

  D. Day (2014). America's ‘Mysterious “Training Tables”’: British Reactions and Amateur Hypocrisy. Sport in History. 34(1), pp.90-112.

  J-F. Loudcher, D. Day (2013). The International Boxing Union (1913–1946): A European Sports and/or Political Failure?. The International Journal of the History of Sport. 30(17), pp.2016-2030.

  D. Day (2013). Victorian coaching communities: exemplars of traditional practice. Sports Coaching Review. 2(2), pp.151-162.

  D. Day, N. Carter, T. Carpenter (2013). The Olympics, amateurism and Britain's coaching heritage. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HERITAGE STUDIES. 19(2), pp.139-152.

  D. Day (2012). Massaging the Amateur Ethos: British Professional Trainers at the 1912 Olympic Games. Sport in History. 32(2), pp.157-182.

  D. Day (2012). Brickett, Walter Septimus (1865–1933), swimming coach.

  D. Day (2012). Beckwith, Frederick Edward (1821–1898), swimmer.

  D. Day (2012). ‘Magical and fanciful theories’: sports psychologists and craft coaches. Sports Coaching Review. 1(1), pp.52-66.

  D. Day (2012). 'What Girl Will Now Remain Ignorant Of Swimming?' Agnes Beckwith, Aquatic Entertainer and Victorian Role Model. WOMENS HISTORY REVIEW. 21(3), pp.419-446.

  D. Day (2012). 'Science', 'Wind' and 'Bottom': Eighteenth-Century Boxing Manuals. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT. 29(10), pp.1446-1465.

  D. Day (2011). Kinship and Community in Victorian London: the 'Beckwith Frogs'. History Workshop Journal. 71(1), pp.194-218.

  D. Day (2011). Accreditation of PGA master coaches: A commentary. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching. 7(SUPPL. 1), pp.131-134.

  D. Day (2011). Craft Coaching and the 'Discerning Eye' of the Coach. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCE & COACHING. 6(1), pp.179-195.

  D. Day (2010). London Swimming Professors: Victorian Craftsmen and Aquatic Entrepreneurs. Sport in History. 30(1), pp.32-54.

• Chapters in books

  D. Day, K. Schiller (2021). The Sport in History Journal. In: Routledge Handbook of Sport History. Routledge, pp.353-359.

  D. Day Historical perspectives on coaching. In: Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching. Routledge,

  RJ. Lake, DJ. Day, SJ. Eaves (2019). Coaching and Training in British Tennis: A History of Competing Ideals. In: Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics.

  D. Day (2019). Late Nineteenth-Century Swimming Teachers in England. G. Cervin, C. Nicolas. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, pp.49-74.

  DJ. Day (2017). The Female Bath Employee: Nineteenth-Century Sport as a Driver of Gender Equality. In: Sport as Key Driver for Development from a Historical Perspective. Coni Servizi S.p.A - Scuoladello Sport,

  D. Day (2017). Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture. R. von Mallinckrodt, A. Schattner. In: Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture: New Perspectives on the History of Sports and Motion. Routledge, pp.125-144.

  DJ. Day (2017). From Lambeth to Niagara: Imitation and Innovation amongst Female Natationists’. In: Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries: Historical Perspectives. Taylor and Francis,

  DJ. Day (2016). Developing 'Science' and 'Wind': Eighteenth Century Sports Training. In: Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture. Ashgate,

  L. Nelson (2016). Learning in Sports Coaching Theory and Application. L. Nelson, R. Groom, P. Potrac. In: Learning in Sports Coaching: Theory and Application. Routledge, pp.1-247.

  DJ. Day (2016). John Dewey: Thought, Experience, Democracy, and Educational Practices in Coaching. In: Learning in Sports Coaching: Theory and Application.. Routledge,

  DJ. Day (2016). 'Our Present Methods and Spirit are Fatal to Success': Coaching and Training in Britain, 1912-1914. In: Sport and Leisure on the Eve of the First World War. MMU Sport and Leisure (SpLeisH),

  DJ. Day (2015). Delineating Professional and Amateur Athletic Bodies in Victorian England. In: Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body.

  D. Day (2014). Jerry Jim's training stable in early Victorian Preston. In: Day, D. Jerry Jim's training stable in early Victorian Preston. In D. Day, ed. Pedestrianism. Manchester: MMU Sport and Leisure History Group, 2012. Manchester Metropolitan University: Sport and Leisure History Group,

  D. Day (2013). Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching. P. Potrac, W. Gilbert, J. Denison. In: Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching. Routledge, pp.5-15.

  S. Oldfield (2012). Narrative, Biography, Prosopography and the Sport Historian: Historical Method and its Implications. D. Day. In: Sports and Coaching: Pasts and Futures. Manchester: MMU Institute for Performance Research, pp.35-60.

  D. Day ‘Old Harry Andrews’:surviving the professional pedestrianism to amateur athletics transition. Manchester Metropolitan University,

  DJ. Day (2011). London Swimming Professors: Victorian Craftsmen and Aquatic Entrepreneurs. In: Coaching Cultures. Routledge,

  DJ. Day (2010). Walter Brickett. A Respectable Professor. In: Recording Leisure Lives: Sports, Games and Pastimes in 20th Century Britain. Leisure Studies Association,

  D. Day Entrepreneurial pugilists of the early eighteenth century. Manchester Metropolitan University, Institute for Performance Research,

• Conferences

  DJ. Day, J-F. Loudcher Transcultural Differences in Sports Coaching: Comparing France and England through the case of Wisdom and Hebert. University of Strasbourg, 7/12/2017.

  DJ. Day (2017). Swimming Natationists, Mistresses and Matrons: Patriarchal Influences on Female Careers in Victorian Britain. University of Vienna, Austria., 23/11/2017.

  DJ. Day, M. Roberts (2017). From the pool to the crystal tank and the circus ring: Female natationists in the Victorian period. MMU Cheshire, 26/9/2017.

  DJ. Day Dewey’s Educational Theories and Coaching Practice. University of Bordeaux, France, 12/9/2017.

  DJ. Day, M. Roberts The Beckwiths: A Conversation. University of Worcester, 1/9/2017.

  DJ. Day Female Swimming Teachers, Professionals and Baths Employees in late Victorian and Edwardian England. Olympic and Sport Museum J.A. Samaranch (Fundació Barcelona Olímpica), 13/7/2017.

  DJ. Day A ‘Reducto ad Absurdum’ of the Meaning of Sport: Transatlantic Tensions over Coaching in the Early Twentieth Century. University of Vic, Catalonia, 28/6/2017.

  DJ. Day Sports Coaching in England in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 7/6/2017.

  DJ. Day Understanding the Victorian Social World through the Lens of Sports History. Crewe, England, 3/3/2017.

  D. Day (2013). The ’mysterious “training tables”’: British antipathy to an American coaching tradition. Wychwood Park, Cheshire, 6/9/2013.

  D. Day (2012). ‘Play it Again Sam’. Mussabini and Wisdom: a biographical conundrum. Glasgow, 6/9/2012.

  D. Day (2012). Romanticising the classical: the nineteenth-century amateur athlete. Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London, 5/7/2012.

  D. Day (2012). Fit for purpose: the Victorian and Edwardian athletic body. International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester, 27/4/2012.

  D. Day (2012). Identity theft: Cora and Clara “Beckwith” and the invention of a natational lineage. University of Brighton, 3/4/2012.

  D. Day (2012). ’A man cannot see his own faults’: British professional trainers and the modern olympics. London, 6/2/2012.

  D. Day (2011). Developing ‘science’ and ‘wind’: eighteenth century sports training. German Historical Institute, London, 17/11/2011.

  D. Day (2011). Massaging the amateur ethos: professional coaches at Stockholm in 1912. Crewe, Cheshire, 25/6/2011.

  S. Oldfield Narrative, biography and prosopography: historical method and its implications. Crewe, 25/6/2011.

  D. Day (2011). Sport psychology: another cuckoo in the coaching nest. Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 19/4/2011.

  S. Oldfield (2010). The coaching business: nineteenth century Manchester sporting entrepreneurs. Wellcome Collection, London, 10/9/2010.

  TL. Carpenter, D. Day (2010). A precarious relationship: sport science and coaching. Wellcome Collection, London, 10/9/2010.

  D. Day (2010). Coaching as craft: a forgotten legacy. Wellcome Collection, London, 10/9/2010.

  S. Oldfield The Manchester public house: sport and the entrepreneur. Manchester Metropolitan University, 1/7/2010.

  TL. Carpenter, D. Day (2010). Institutionalisation of sports science in British Sport. Manchester, 1/7/2010.

  D. Day (2010). The “discerning eye” of the Edwardian coach: identifying talent and preventing staleness. Manchester, 1/7/2010.

  TL. Carpenter, D. Day The London Olympics, legacy and British coaching traditions.

  DJ. Day (2009). "A Modern Naiad". Agnes Beckwith. Staffordshire, 14/10/2009.

  D. Day (2009). “Science”, “wind” and “bottom”: late eighteenth century pugilism. Manchester, 1/7/2009.

  S. Oldfield, D. Day (2009). Manchester pedestrianism 1840-1880: a collective biography of ‘sporting publicans’. Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research, University of Brighton, 9/6/2009.

  D. Day (2009). Walter Brickett: a respectable professor. Leisure Studies Association, Bolton Museum, 7/4/2009.

  D. Day (2008). “A modern naiad”: nineteenth century female professional natationists. Womens History Network - Midland Region, Stoke, 8/11/2008.

  DJ. Day (2008). Naiads and Mermaids: Female Imitators of Captain Webb. Cheshire, 6/11/2008.

  D. Day (2008). Traditional coaching communities: “It’s not what you know but who you know”. Manchester, 1/7/2008.

  D. Day (2008). Professors Beckwith and Brickett: from the “Aq” to the Olympics. MMU Alsager campus, 19/3/2008.

  D. Day (2006). Sport psychology: another cuckoo in the coaching nest. Society for the Social History of Medicine, University of Warwick, 28/6/2006.

  DJ. Day (2006). Modern Coaching Cultures: Scientised and Sanitised. Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, 17/5/2006.

  DJ. Day, I. Atkin (2006). The Emergence of the Sports Coach during the Long Nineteenth Century. An Exploration of Labour Processes of Organised Sport in Britain and America. London, 10/4/2006.

• Reports

• Other

  DJ. Day (2012). Walter Brickett.

  DJ. Day (2011). Frederick, Willie and Agnes Beckwith.

  DJ. Day (1996). Management in Coaching.