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Tony Collins is a British sports and social historian and author specialising in Northern England and rugby football.
Collins is a professor of social history at Leeds Metropolitan University. He also acts as a historical consultant to the Rugby Football League. Collins has been described as rugby league football's "leading historian". He has produced a range of material on the history of sports and the social contexts of events; as well as rugby league, Collins has written about rugby union.
Collins has three times been awarded the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History book of the year. His books, Rugby’s Great Split, Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain and A Social History of English Rugby Union, winning in 1999, 2007 and 2010 respectively.
- Monographs
- A Social History of English Rugby Union (2009), Routledge, ISBN 978-0415476607
- Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain (2006), Routledge, ISBN 9780415396158
- Rugby’s Great Split (2nd Revised Edition) (2006), Routledge, ISBN 9780415396172
- Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol (written with Wray Vamplew) (2002), Berg, ISBN 1859735584
- Rugby’s Great Split (1998), Frank Cass, ISBN 0714643548
- Essay Collections
- 1895 And All That (2009), Scratching Shed Publishing, ISBN 978-0956007599
- Edited books
- Encyclopedia of traditional British rural sports (edited with John Martin and Wray Vamplew) (2005), Routledge, ISBN 041535224X
- The Glory of their Times: crossing the colour line in rugby league (edited with Phil Melling) (2004), Vertical, ISBN 978-1904091073
- Lectures
- ’Ahr Waggy’ : Harold Wagstaff and the making of Anglo-Australian rugby league culture (2003), 5th Annual Tom Brock lecture, ISBN 0733421547
Total Books: 25