‘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 51³Ô¹Ïapp 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 51³Ô¹Ïapp 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.