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Appendix: British Olympic Association Senior Office-Holders Appendix: British Olympic Association Senior Office-Holders Presidents Duke of Sutherland – Viscount Portal – Duke of Beaufort – Marquess of Exeter – Lord Rupert Nevill – HRH the Princess Royal, Princess Anne – Chairmen Lord Desborough – Duke of Somerset – Lord Downham – Reverend R. S. de Courcy Laffan (Acting) – Earl Cadogan – Lord Rochdale – Sir Harold Bowden – Viscount Portal – Lord Burghley (Marquess of Exeter from ) – Lord Rupert Nevill – Sir Denis Follows – Charles Palmer – Sir Arthur Gold – Craig Reedie – Lord Moynihan – Lord Coe - Hon. Secretaries Reverend R. S. de Courcy Laffan – Flying Officer A. J. Adams – Brigadier R. J. Kentish – Evan A. Hunter – K. S. Duncan – General Secretaries K. S. Duncan – G. M. Sparkes – R. W. Palmer – Chief Executives Simon Clegg – Andy Hunt – Bill Sweeney – DOI: 10.1057/9781137363428.0012 Select Bibliography (Place of publication is London unless otherwise specified) Primary Sources 1. Unpublished Primary Sources The National Archives, Kew Cabinet (CAB) Department of the Environment (AT) Foreign Office (FO) Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Prime Minister’s papers (PREM) Ministry/Department of Education (ED) Private papers Philip Noel-Baker, Churchill College, Cambridge Lord Desborough, Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, Aylesbury Lord Wolfenden, Reading University Organisations British Olympic Association, University of East London Conservative Party, Bodleian Library, Oxford Labour Party, National Museum of Labour History, Manchester DOI: 10.1057/9781137363428.0013 Select Bibliography 2. Published Primary Sources BOA Publications BOA, Annual Reports (various dates) BOA, magazines including British Olympic Journal, World Sports, Sportsworld (various dates) BOA, Aims and Objects of the Olympic Games Fund (BOA, n.d) BOA, The British Olympic Association and the Olympic Games (BOA, 1984) Theodore Andrea Cook, The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report of the Olympic Games of 1908 (BOA, 1908) BOA, Official Report of the Olympic Games of 1912 (BOA, 1912) Reverend R. S de Courcy Laffan,The Olympic Games of Antwerp (BOA, 1920) G. L. Fairlie (ed), The British Olympic Association Official Report of the VIIIth Olympiad 1924 (BOA, 1925) Harold Abrahams (ed.), British Olympic Association Official Report of the IXth Olympiad 1928 (BOA, 1929) Captain F. A. M. Webster (ed.), British Olympic Association Official Report of the Xth Olympiad 1932 (BOA, 1932) Harold Abrahams (ed.), British Olympic Association Official Report of the XIth Olympiad 1936 (BOA, 1936) Cecil Bear (ed.), Olympic Games 1948: British Olympic Association Official Report (World Sports, 1948) Cecil Bear (ed.), Olympic Games 1952: British Olympic Association Official Report (World Sports, 1952) Cecil Bear (ed.), The British Olympic Association Official Report of the Olympic Games XVIth Olympiad Melbourne 1956 (World Sports Publications, 1956) Phil Pilley (ed.), The British Olympic Association Official Report of the Olympic Games XVII Olympiad Rome 1960 (World Sports Publications, 1960) Doug Gardiner (ed.), The British Olympic Association Official Report of Games 1964 (World Sports Publications, 1965) Bob Phillips (ed), The British Olympic Association Official Report of Games 1968 (World Sports Publications, 1968) Doug Gardiner (ed.), The BOA Official Report of the Olympic Games 1972 (World Sports Publications, 1972) Neil Wilson (ed.) The BOA Official Report of the Olympic Games 1976 (West Nally Ltd, 1977) DOI: 10.1057/9781137363428.0013 Select Bibliography BOA, Sport: Official Report of the 1980 Games (Epic, 1981) Mikel Blake (ed.), British Olympic Association Olympic Games 1984 Official Report (BOA, 1985) Caroline Searle (ed.), The British Olympic Association Official Olympic Games Report Calgary/Seoul 1988 (BOA, 1988) Caroline Searle, Jill Beagley and Roxanne Still (eds), Olympic Glory: Barcelona 1992 (Sevenoaks, Crier Publications, 1992) Peter Nichols (ed.), Atlanta ’96: Official British Olympic Report (Brighton: Wyeth Publishing, 1997) Andrew Baker, Mark Howell et Al. (eds), Team GB. Sydney 2000. The Official Report (BOA, 2000) Andrew Baker, Philip Pope and Rebecca Middleton (eds), Team GB. Athens 2004. The Official Report (BOA, 2004) Peter Marshall (ed.), Team GB. Beijing 2008. The Official Report (EMP, 2008) Other Reports/Parliamentary/Departmental Publications Hansard, House of Commons Debates, House of Lords Debates Central Council of Physical Recreation, Sport & the Community. The Report of the Wolfenden Committee on Sport (CCPR, 1960) House of Commons, Committee of Public Accounts, The Budget for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (HMSO, 2008) Newspapers and Journals Daily Express Daily Mail Daily Telegraph Evening Standard Manchester Guardian/Guardian Observer Star Sunday Times Times Today Whitehall and Westminster World Autobiographies, Diaries, Speeches and Contemporary Writing Anonymous, ‘Great Britain and Olympism’, Olympic Review, 99–100, January–February 1976, pp. 54–91 Don Anthony, A Strategy for British Sport (C. Hurst and Co, 1980) DOI: 10.1057/9781137363428.0013 Select Bibliography Don Anthony (compiler), Man of Sport, Man of Peace. Collected Speeches and Essays of Philip Noel-Baker, Olympic Statesman 1889–1992 (Sports Editions Ltd, 1991) Roger Bannister, The First Four Minutes (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2004 edn) Tony Blair, A Journey (Hutchinson, 2010) Alistair Campbell (ed.), The Blair Years (Hutchinson, 2007) Hylton Cleaver, Sporting Rhapsody (Hutchinson’s Library, 1951) Seb Coe, Running My Life. The Autobiography(Hodder & Stoughton, 2012), pp. 119–32. Theodore Andrea Cook, The Cruise of the Branwen (Privately published, 1908) Theodore Andrea Cook, International Sport: A Short History of the Olympic Movement from 1896 to the Present Day (Archibald Constable, 1910) Theodore Andrea Cook, The Sunlit Hours: A Record of Sport and Life (Nisbet & Co, 1925) Alex Devine (ed.), Official Handbook of the Olympic Games (Hudson and Kearns, 1908) Douglas Hurd, Memoirs (Little, Brown, 2003) Denis Howell, Made in Birmingham (Queen Anne Press, 1990) Lord Killanin, My Olympic Years (Secker & Warburg, 1983) Neil Macfarlane with M Herd, Sport and Politics: A World Divided (Willow Books, 1996) John Major, The Autobiography (HarperCollins, 1999) David Pickup, Not Another Messiah: An Account of the Sports Council 1988–93 (Bishop Auckland: Pentland Press, 1996) James Rivers (compiler & editor), The Sports Book 3 (MacDonald, 1949) Margaret Thatcher,The Downing Street Years (HarperCollins, 1993) F. A. M. Webster, Olympic Cavalcade (Hutchinson, 1948) Secondary Sources Biographical Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: OUP, 2004), online entries at www.oxforddnb.com for: Lord Aberdare (by Michael Maclagan); Lord Downham (Martin Pugh); Lord Burghley (Norris McWhirter); Sir Theodore Andrea Cook (Ian Buchanan); William Hayes Fisher, Baron DOI: 10.1057/9781137363428.0013 Select Bibliography Downham (Martin Pugh); William Grenfell, Lord Desborough (Ian F. W. Beckett); Sir Arthur Gold (Wray Vamplew); Denis Howell (Tam Dalyell); Robert Stuart de Courcy Laffan (Steve Bailey); Lord Luke (John Armstrong); Baron Noel-Baker (David Howell); Charles Palmer (Richard Bowen); Viscount Portal (J. V. Sheffield/Robert Brown). Books Don Anthony, Minds, Bodies and Souls, 3 volumes (BOA, 1995) Don Anthony, Britain and the Olympic Games: Rediscovery of a Heritage (Birmingham: Birmingham Promotions and Community Unit, 1987) Derek Birley, Playing the Game. Sport and British Society, 1910–45 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995) Angela Bolger, Lord Desborough’s Sporting Legacy (Bucks: Taplow Court, 2008) John Coghlan with Ida Webb, Sport and British Politics since 1960 (Brighton: Falmer, 1990) H. J. Evans, Service to Sport: The Story of the CCPR, 1937–1975 (Pelham, 1975) Brendan Gallagher, The Games. Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic Journey to London 2012 (Chichester: Wiley, 2011) Janie Hampton, The Austerity Olympics. When the Games Came to London in 1948 (Aurum, 2008) Duff Hart-Davis,Hitler’s Olympics. The 1936 Games (Coronet Books, 1988 edn) Christopher R. Hill, Olympic Politics (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992) Jeff Hill, Sport, Leisure & Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) Richard Holt, Sport and the British. A Modern History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) Richard Holt, ‘Great Britain: The Amateur Tradition’, in Arnd Kruger and William Murray, The Nazi Olympics. Sport, Politics and Appeasement in the 1930s (Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2003) Richard Holt and Tony Mason, Sport in Britain 1945–2000 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000) Barrie Houlihan, The Government and Politics of Sport (Abingdon: Routledge, 1991) Mike Huggins and Jack Williams, Sport and the English 1918–39 (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006) DOI: 10.1057/9781137363428.0013 Select Bibliography Kevin Jefferys,Sport and Politics in Modern Britain: The Road to 2012 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) Rebecca Jenkins, The First London Olympics, 1908 (Piatkus, 2008) Mike Lee, The Race for the 2012 Olympics. The Inside Story of How London Won the Bid (Virgin Books, 2006) Helen Jefferson Lenskyj and Stephen Wagg (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) Matthew P. Llewellyn, Rule Britannia: Nationalism, Identity and the Modern Olympic Games (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011) John MacAloon, This Great Symbol: Pierre de Coubertin and the Origins of the Modern Olympic Games (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1981) David Miller, Athens to Athens. The Official
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