"Who only cricket know?" Writings about empire, race, class, Windrush, and national identity through the lens of cricket.🏏
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*Windrush Cricket* with *£5 discount* and *free postage* (signed or unsigned, as per preference) are available directly from the author: pls email [email protected] if you'd like to receive a copy.
Zoom book launch 12pm US (Eastern) / 5pm UK / 9:30pm India WEDNESDAY 13 May No prep required, all participation welcome, listening in equally fine! Super simple sign-up here (just click RSVP): nacbs.org/event-details/wind…. Hope you can join, and feel free to forward.
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The next @ACScricket seminar is slated for Wednesday 12th May at 7.00pm BST & it features a talk by @WindrushCricket (Michael Collins) on the Windrush Generation & cricket. This is for @ACScricket members so go to acscricket.com to join #acs & register. #cricketcounts
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Congratulations to Michael Collins (@WindrushCricket), Associate Professor of History in SHS, and Dr Montaz Marché on winning the British Society for Sports History’s 2026 Inclusive Communities History Prize!
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So grateful to London's IHR Black British History Seminar for giving me the chance to speak about my new book, Windrush Cricket: lnkd.in/gyygw5sp. If you are in London on Thursday 7 May at 5:30pm, please do come along! history.ac.uk/news-events/ev… @ti_blackbritain @bhmuk
The registration link for the IHR event is back up! history.ac.uk/news-events/ev…
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"Ignoring the symptoms of illness isn't optimistic, though. It's dumb. And what Collins does here is diagnose and, to an extent, suggest cures" | ✍️ @GeorgeDobell1
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This is interesting:
What does language, culture, and social practice tell us about how "imperially-minded" Britons on the WW2 Home Front were?
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What does language, culture, and social practice tell us about how "imperially-minded" Britons on the WW2 Home Front were?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Windrush Cricket by Michael Collins | @TheTLS Book review the-tls.com/culture/sport/wi…
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I'll be talking about my new @OUPAcademic book *Windrush Cricket: Imperial Culture, Caribbean Migration, and the Remaking of Postwar England* at The University of Manchester (@OfficialUoM), *4PM Tuesday 27 January 2026, Mansfield Cooper Building 1.02*
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We are really looking forward to the discussion about @WindrushCricket the book written by Michael Collins at #civilserviceclub in London on Monday 26th January starting at 7pm. There is the odd ticket still left: cricketsociety.org.uk @CricketSociety
I'll be talking about my new @OUPAcademic book *Windrush Cricket: Imperial Culture, Caribbean Migration, and the Remaking of Postwar England* at The University of Manchester (@OfficialUoM), *4PM Tuesday 27 January 2026, Mansfield Cooper Building 1.02*
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Nice Guardian piece on the @WindrushCricket project documenting all the British Caribbean cricket clubs, lots of which sat outside official league structures theguardian.com/sport/2026/j…
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Great Christmas present idea 👇👇👇👇
Love cricket but need a distraction from #TheAshes2025 ? Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for your cricket-mad friend? Grab yourself a copy of ‘Windrush Cricket’, the story of how Caribbean cricket and the #WindrushGeneration remade postwar England.
amazon.co.uk/Windrush-Cricke…
Love cricket but need a distraction from #TheAshes2025 ? Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for a cricket-mad friend? ‘Windrush Cricket’ is the story of how Caribbean cricket and the Windrush Generation remade postwar England. Use AUFLY30 for 30% off: global.oup.com/academic/prod…
Love cricket but need a distraction from #TheAshes2025 ? Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for your cricket-mad friend? Grab yourself a copy of ‘Windrush Cricket’, the story of how Caribbean cricket and the #WindrushGeneration remade postwar England.
amazon.co.uk/Windrush-Cricke…
Lovely story from @MontazMarche - The Tropics of the Twenties: Caribbean Cricket in East London:
ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-…
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