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Research interests
My current research focuses on the history of sport and sports writing (particularly print journalism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries). I am the co-editor of Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth Century to the Present with Philip Dine. I am currently writing a book provisionally titled French Cycling and Print Journalism: The Making of a Sport Culture which investigates the history of French cycling via its textual representation, particularly in sports journalism, biography and auto-biography. I am also co-investigator on the British Academy-funded project 'Gender Injustice in Action Sports'.
I am also expert in understanding the relationship between representations of conflict and politics in early twentieth-century France. I am the author of Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novel of the Great War and France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural Representations of the War next Door, 1936-1945. With Martyn Cornick and Angela Kershaw, I have recently written French Political Travel Writing in the Inter-War Years: Radical Departures. I am also interested in the relationship between political commitment and utopianism and the memory of the First World War in twentieth-century French culture. I am one of the editors of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. In addition to this, I also have an interest in French crime fiction, particularly the novels of Sébastien Japrisot.
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- Cabot Institute City Futures Research
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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FIAS: Gender Injustice in Action Sports
Spotswood, F. M., Hurcombe, M. J. & Marsh, B. C. L.
1/05/23 → 31/07/24
Project: Research
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Georges Canguilhem, from Pacifism to Resistance. An Alternative History of the Twentieth-Century French Intellectual
1/10/21 → 30/09/24
Project: Research
Research output
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Bringing Marathon to Paris: The Press and the Promotion of Endurance Running in the Belle Epoque
Hurcombe, M. J., 31 Jul 2023, (Submitted) Paris Sports: Retracing the Culture of Game and Play in the City of Light (1854-2024). Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, (Sport, History and Culture).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
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Introduction: Exploring the War-Peace-Sport Nexus
Hurcombe, M. J. & Dine, P., 3 Mar 2023, Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth Century to the Present: War Minus the Shooting?. 1st ed. Routledge, p. 1-15 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
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Reporting the Death of Cycling’s Elite in First World War France
Hurcombe, M. J., 3 Mar 2023, Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth Century to the Present: War Minus the Shooting?. 1st ed. p. 38-55 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
Activities
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Society for French Studies 63rd annual conference
Martin J Hurcombe (Participant)
27 Jun 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Telling the Story of Sport
Martin J Hurcombe (Participant)
14 Dec 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Writing the Ride: Cycling and the Written Word
Martin J Hurcombe (Advisor)
8 Nov 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion
Thesis
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Forming the modern mind : a reappraisal of the French combat novel of World War One.
Author: Hurcombe, M. J., 2000Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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