Melissa McMahon's guest appearances

Melissa McMahon

The Rugby League Digest

Rugby Reloaded

Joe Gorman

Heidi Norman

Steve Mascord

Ben Darwin

Spencer Kassimir

Gavin Willacy

Tom Brown

Adam Newman

Mike Meehall

Lindsay Anderson

Andrew Ferguson

Steve Roach

Carolyn Hitt

Tony Collins

Brian Carney

OwlTail

What really happened in Vichy? The new ‘Rugby Reloaded’ discusses new research on why French rugby league was banned in 1941 with Dr Melissa McMahon (@batsyblog). She analyses why league was singled out and how amateurism became weaponised as part of the Vichy government's attempts to return France to a reactionary past. For more on the history of rugby and the other football codes, take a look at www.rugbyreloaded.com (which also has show notes for this episode) and follow me on Twitter at @collinstony.

What really happened in Vichy? The new ‘Rugby Reloaded’ discusses new research on why French rugby league was banned in 1941 with Dr Melissa McMahon (@batsyblog). She analyses why league was singled out and how amateurism became weaponised as part of the Vichy government's attempts to return France to a reactionary past. For more on the history of rugby and the other football codes, take a look at <a href="http://www.rugbyreloaded.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.rugbyreloaded.com</a> (which also has show notes for this episode) and follow me on Twitter at @collinstony.

98. Vichy, amateurism and the banning of French rugby league with Dr Melissa McMahon

Andy Carr

Kath Haines

The RLD is proud to present Rugby League Reflections, a one day conference to mark 21 years of Tom Brock activities, held on November 11, 2019. In the second of four sessions we hear Andy Carr's 'Reading the Game: Exploring Rugby League News (1920-1973) via Trove', Kath Haines', 'Founded in a Fight’: Why the founding story of the NSW Ladies Rugby Football League in Sydney, 1921, deserves a place in Rugby League’s pantheon of great internecine fights', and Melissa McMahon's 'Unlucky 13: Amateurism as a weapon of war in Vichy France'. Audio courtesy of Cracker Night Films. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The RLD is proud to present Rugby League Reflections, a one day conference to mark 21 years of Tom Brock activities, held on November 11, 2019. In the second of four sessions we hear Andy Carr's 'Reading the Game: Exploring Rugby League News (1920-1973) via Trove', Kath Haines', 'Founded in a Fight’: Why the founding story of the NSW Ladies Rugby Football League in Sydney, 1921, deserves a place in Rugby League’s pantheon of great internecine fights', and Melissa McMahon's 'Unlucky 13: Amateurism as a weapon of war in Vichy France'. Audio courtesy of Cracker Night Films.<br/><p> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

BONUS EPISODE - Rugby League Reflections Session Two: Andy Carr, Kath Haines & Melissa McMahon