Category: cricket

New Exhibition: No Foreign Field: MCC and the Empire of Cricket

Recently I was given the opportunity to visit MCC’s new exhibition No Foreign Field: MCC and the Empire of Cricket in the company of the Chief Librarian at Lord’s, Neil Robinson, and one of the exhibition’s curators, Dr Prashant Kidambi. The exhibition tells the story of MCC’s role in cricket’s global development from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Neil explained that, together with others running concurrently (one on cricket in the Jewish community and the other portraits of black cricketers), this exhibition is part of his initiative to make Lord’s ‘the home of cricket for every cricket fan and to make every cricket fan feel at home wherever they are from.’

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Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910–1971

Thanks to the encouragement and energy of the editorial team of Bruce Murray, Richard Parry and Jonty Winch Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910-1971 is now in print as part of Palgrave's series of studies in sport and politics. The largest guffaw of the BSSH's* recent conference came when one of the delegates said that sport and politics shouldn't mix. Our book is a c. 70,000 word refutation of that statement.

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