Robert CollsRobert Colls was professor of English history at the University of Leicester before joining the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, also in Leicester. He has written widely on modern British history, and forthe New Statesman and the Literary Review, as well as for other newspapers and journals, and on television and radio including, most recently, The Rest is History podcast. His This Sporting Life won the Aberdare Prize for sport history writing.His Identity of England, George Orwell: English Rebel, and This Sporting Life were Books of the Year in the Times, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the New Statesman, and the BBC History Magazine. Read More Read Less