Context
Nothing is more fundamental in the lexicon and methodology of history than context.
Sport historians contextualise the remnants of the past and their evidence;
they also contextualise sport, seeking to understand it in the circumstances of different places and different times.
In this latter sense, I view context as primarily an interpretive paradigm.
I look at a range of theories of structural change and the particular problem of reductionism, of which so many of these theories are guilty.