British Sporting Relations with Apartheid South Africa

Matthew P. Llewellyn is Professor in the department of kinesiology at the California State University, Fullerton. He earned a PhD in the historical and philosophical aspects of sport and physical activity at the Pennsylvania State University. He has published in journals including the Journal of Southern African Studies, South African Historical Journal, Contemporary British History, and the International Journal of the History of Sport, as well as numerous textbook chapters. He has published several books and edited collections, including Sport and Apartheid South Africa: Histories of Politics, Power, and Protest (Routledge, 2022). He currently serves as editor of the Journal of Olympic Studies and is a Co-Director of the Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research (CSSOR).Toby C. Rider is Professor in the department of kinesiology at the California State University, Fullerton. He earned a PhD. in the sociocultural study of sport and exercise at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. Toby has published multiple articles, contributed several chapters to scholarly books, and presented his research at numerous conferences. He is the author of Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy (University of Illinois Press, 2016), and co-editor of Defending the American Way of Life: Sport, Culture, and the Cold War (University of Arkansas Press, 2018), and Sport and Apartheid South Africa: Histories of Politics, Power, and Protest (Routledge, 2022). Toby is also the Co-Director of the Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research.

• Introduction 1: Britain and the Transnational Foundations of Anti-Apartheid Sport Protest 2: Bridge Building and the Defence of Sporting Links with South Africa 3: Exiles, Students, and the Growth of Anti-Apartheid Sports Protest 4: The Stop the Seventy Tour Campaign 5: The British Response to South Africa's 'Multinational' Reforms 6: International Sanctions, the Commonwealth, and the Gleneagles Agreement 7: Thatcher, the New Right, and Rebel Tours in the Early 1980s 8: The Gatting Tour and the Final Phase of the Sports Boycott

In this well-researched and compelling study, Llewellyn and Rider (both, kinesiology, California State Univ., Fullerton) examine the genesis and evolution of Britain's sports boycott directed at apartheid South Africa.