Kevin has published extensively on aspects of football, sport, museums and culture. This includes eleven books and twenty-seven academic papers. He has written books for a wider, popular audience, such as What You Think You Know About Football is Wrong: The Global Game’s Greatest Myths and Untruths, Bloomsbury, 2019, as well as widely acclaimed academic texts.
BOOKS
Museums and Popular Culture, second edition, Bloomsbury, forthcoming, 2020.
Sport and Museums: Curious Connections? (ed.), with Hughson, J., Wacker, C., forthcoming, 2020.
What You Think You Know About Football is Wrong: The Global Game’s Greatest Myths and Untruths , Bloomsbury, 2019.
Routledge Handbook of Football Studies, (ed.), with Hughson, J., Maguire, J., Spaaj, R., Routledge, 2017.
Sport, History and Heritage: An Investigation into the Public Representation of Sport, Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2012, (ed. with Hill, J. and Wood, J.).
Management in Museums, New Research in Museum Studies, Volume 7, Athlone Press, (ed.), 1999.
Museums and Popular Culture, Leicester University Press, 1997.
Museum Management, Leicester Readers in Museum Studies, revised edition, Routledge, (ed.), 1997.
Museum Management, Leicester Readers in Museum Studies, Routledge, (ed.), 1994.
The Mersey Ship Repairers. Life and Work in a Port Industry, Departments of Economic History and Sociology, University of Liverpool, 1988.
Lee’s Tapestry Works. Life and Work in the North End of Birkenhead (with Alan Johnson), Departments of Economic History and Sociology, University of Liverpool, 1987. Reprinted by Liver Press 2002.
ACADEMIC PAPERS
‘The Material Culture of Sport: Part 1’, in Hughson, J., Moore, K., Wacker, C., (eds), Sport and Museums: Curious Connections?, forthcoming, 2020.
‘The Material Culture of Sport: Part 2’, in Hughson, J., Moore, K., Wacker, C., (eds), Sport and Museums: Curious Connections?, forthcoming, 2020.
‘Best Practice in Sports Museums and Sport in Museums’, in Hughson, J., Moore, K., Wacker, C., (eds), Sport and Museums: Curious Connections?, forthcoming, 2020.
‘Football and Heritage’, in Hughson, J., Moore, K., Maguire, J., Spaaj, R., (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Football Studies, Routledge,2017: 74-85.
‘Football and Museums’, in Hughson, J., Moore, K., Maguire, J., Spaaj, R.,(eds.) Routledge Handbook of Football Studies, Routledge, 2017: 86-95.
‘Sport history, public history and popular culture: a growing engagement’, Journal of Sport History: Special Issue, 2013: 401-417.
‘A second ‘Maracanãzo’? The 2014 FIFA World Cup in historical perspective’, Sport in Society, 2016: 555-571.
‘Football in the Olympic and Paralympics’, Sport in Society: special issue – The Olympic Games: Meeting New Global Challenges, 2014: 1-16
‘Sport history, public history and popular culture: a growing engagement’,Journal of Sport History: Special Issue, 2013: 401-417.
‘Sport in museums and museums of sport’, in Hill, J., Moore, K., Wood, J., (eds.), Sport, History and Heritage: An Investigation into the Public Representation of Sport, Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2012: 93-106.
‘ “Hand of God”, Shirt of the Man: The Materiality of Diego Maradona’, Costume. The Journal of the Costume Society, Vol. 46, No. 2 2012: 212-225 (with Hughson, J.).
‘Foreword’, in Phillips, M. G., and (ed.) Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame, Routledge, Abingdon, 2012: xi-xv.
‘The National Football Museum’, Manchester Region History Review, Vol. 20, 2009: 133-138.
‘Sports Heritage and the re-imaged city: The National Football Museum, Preston’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 14, No. 4, November 2008: 445-461.
‘ “I Have a Dream”: Inspiring Strategic Planning in Museums’, Actas de las Primeras Jornadas de Formacion Museologica, Spanish Ministry of Culture, 2007: 39-50.
‘Strategic Planning in Museums’, in Museos.es, (Journal of Spanish National Museums), number 1, 2006.
‘Museums and their publics in the 21st century’, in Transactions of the International Colloquium of Museums, Mexico City, 2003, 2005.
‘Attracting new audiences: The National Football Museum, England’, in M: Museums of Mexico and the World, Volume 2, Mexico City, 2004: 22-31.
‘Marketing Sports Museums: Attracting New Audiences?’ Revista de Museologia, Madrid, 2001: 29-32.
‘The People’s Museum of the Peoples Game? The National Football Museum England’, Revista de Museologia, Madrid, 2001: 33-43.
‘Museum Management’, Informatica Museolgica, Volume 33, Zagreb, Croatia, 2002.
‘Managing museums in an age of unreason’, Informatica Museolgica, Volume 33, Zagreb, Croatia, 2002.
‘Popular culture in city history museums’, in Nauwelaarts, M., (ed.), The Future of the Past: Reflections on History, Urbanity and Museums, Antwerp Museum, Belgium, 2000: 341-357.
‘Introduction: Museum Management’, in Museum Management, Leicester Readers in Museum Studies, Routledge, 1994: 1-14.
‘Labour history in museums: development and direction’, in Pearce, S., (ed.), Museums and the Appropriation of Culture, New Research in Museums Studies, Volume 4, Athlone Press, 1994.
‘ “This Whig and Tory ridden town”. Popular Politics in Liverpool in the Chartist era’, in Belchem, J. (ed.), Popular Politics, Riot and Labour. Essays in Liverpool History, 1790-1840, Liverpool University Press, 1992: 38-67.
‘ ‘Feasts of reason?’ Exhibitions at the Liverpool Mechanics Institution in the 1840s’, in Kavanagh, G., (ed.), Museum Languages: Objects and Text, Leicester University Press, 1991.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
‘Cricket in summer, football in winter’ MCC Magazine, Spring 2012: 28-31.
‘The Man who Changed Football’, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, Annual Gazette, Issue 20, 2016: 23-4.
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