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Editor: Dr Tim Harding
      

Publications on chess history

My most recent published academic article on chess history deals with chess columns in Victorian England. It appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review (Winter 2009 issue). Readers with access to the Project Muse e-journals can find it there. A pre-publication version (without illustrations) can also be found online in Trinity College Dublin's research archive.

Another article by me, ‘A Fenian Pastime’?: early Irish board games and their identification with chess will be published in the next (nominally May 2010) number of Irish Historical Studies. This can also be read online in pre-publication form in the TCD research publications archive.

In March 2010 I spoke on Victorian women's chess at the Institute of Historical Research in London. This paper has not yet been published but may be reworked for a journal or book chapter soon, so I am not posting it here.

My first publication in an academic journal appeared in 2005. Ireland's queen of chess: Frideswide Rowland and her world is in the volume History Studies 6 (University of Limerick, 2005); ISSN 1393-7782. Unavailable online.

Another academic article appeared in a book collection: Policeman on the case: early chess in Lancashire and the Preston Guardian chess column, 1879-83 in A. Brown and R. Spalding (eds.), Entertainment, Leisure and Identities (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007), pp. 50-65. ISBN 9-781847-182364.

For my forthcoming book, see this page.

I have also written some articles for the occasional series Quarterly for Chess History, published by Moravian Chess.