Sir Derek Sydney Birley (31 May 1926 – 14 May 2002) was a distinguished English educationalist and a prize-winning writer on the social history of sport...

crowds or gambling were involved. According to the social historian Derek Birley, there was a "great upsurge of sport after the Restoration" in 1660....

Charles Loch Mowat, Britain between the Wars 1918–1940 (1955) pp. 246–250 Derek Birley, Land of sport and glory: Sport and British society, 1887–1910 (1995)...

(1926–2018), linguist and academic Derek Birley (1926–2002), academic and educator Derek Blake, academic and research scientist Derek Bok (born 1930), American...

Retrieved 16 April 2012. Derek Birley (Sport and The Making of Britain). 1993. Manchester University Press. p. 32. 978-0719037597 Derek Baker (England in the...

George IV and the outcome was described by the sports historian Sir Derek Birley as "a suitably murky affair".[citation needed] Football in Great Britain...

1870, during which Gloucestershire acquired first-class status, and Derek Birley records that, "scorning the puny modern fashion of moustaches", he grew...

the game was a book, The Complete Cricketer, published in 1906. Sir Derek Birley, in his A Social History of English Cricket, described it as "a masterpiece...

College in partnership with Ulster University. Vice-Chancellors Sir Derek Birley (1983–1991) Trevor Arthur Smith, Baron Smith of Clifton (1991–1999) Gerry...

of which the government tried to eliminate forcefully. According to Derek Birley, it was late in the 16th century that "licensing began to replace prohibition...