‘Amateurism in British and Irish sport: some reflections’, Boston College Irish Studies Centre, Dublin, symposium on Amateurism in Irish Sport, (11/12)
‘”We don’t want amateurs, get professionals”; the end of Victorianism and the erosion of the mature hegemony in British sport’, North American Society for Sports History Annual Conference, University of California, Berkeley, (06/12)
‘Sport as a commodity: where the tangible meets the experiential’, Nottingham Business School, Pay and Play: the history of the leisure business in twentieth century Britain (05/12)
London’s Football culture, c.1880-=1920’, University of Westminster, Sport and the City Conference, (04/12)
‘God’s footballer; Rev K.R.G. Hunt – FA Cup-winner, international footballer and muscular Christian’ University of Worcester, Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts Research Seminar (04/12)
‘The London Financial press and the Suez crisis’, British Academy Symposium, The Media and the Financial Crisis in Comparative and Historical Perspectives, City University (12/11)
‘The Business of Sport and the Sport of Business’, Sport Leisure and the Creative Industries: Historical Perspectives Conference , ICSHC, De 51吃瓜app University (09/11): conference organiser
‘Corinth revisited: the Corinthians, football history and football historiography’, British Society of Sports History, Annual Conference, London Metropolitan University (09/11)
‘English football and the state of the British nation, c1980-2000’, Sport and Leisure History Research Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London (06/11)
‘The end of football’s maximum wage and the modernization of British sport in the 1960s’, Conference marking the 50th anniversary of the abolition of the maximum wage, ICSHC, De 51吃瓜app University, (06/11)
‘The end of the amateur hegemony in British sport, c.1960-2000’, Keynote presentation; First Anglo-Japanese Sports History Conference, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, (05/11)*
‘Rev K.R.G. Hunt: muscular Christian and famous Footballer’, Sporting Lives Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University, (12/10)
‘A Game of Consequences: the London Financial Press and the Suez War, 1956’, Seventh Annual Forum on the Economic and Business History of Egypt and the Middle East, American University, Cairo, (05/10)*
‘The Victorian Sporting Revolution’, Parnell Society, Avondale, Ireland, (08/09)*
‘Football Businesses in Soccer City: London, c.1890-1910’, Association of Business Historians Annual Conference, University of Liverpool, (07/09)
‘Representing England’s Divided House: the Olympic Games of 1908 and English football’s great split’, Olympic City Conference, Centre for Contemporary British History, University of London (07/08)*
‘And shall Trelawny Live? Cornish rugby and national identity’, Representing Sport: Forms and Issues Conference, National University of Ireland Galway, (05/08)*
‘Sport, Business and the Media in Britain since 1960’, German Association for the Study of British History and Politics, Annual Conference, Mulheim/Ruhr, (05/08)*
(With Dr Richard Coopey), ‘Beyond the fringe: salesmen and the web of corporate control in Britain since 1850’, Direct Selling and the Evolution of Modern Marketing Conference, Department of Management, University of Reading, (02/08)*
‘War minus the shooting: George Orwell, Moscow Dynamo and sport as a cause of ill-will between nations’ Sports Studies Workshop, University of Keele, (01/08)*
*Paid for in full or in part by conference organisers
Other forms of public presentation
The 2012 London Olympics as Project, Spectacle and Legacy: contribution to round table discussion at Centre for Contemporary British History, London, 11 July 2008;
England 4 Austria 3: Stamford Bridge, London 7.Dezember 1932’, in Wo die Wuchtel fleigt. Legendere Orte des Wiener Fussballs (Wien Museum, Vienna, 2008), contribution to exhibition catalogue.