On Thursday 25 October, I’m giving a talk to the Cardiff branch of the Historical Association. My paper, ‘Olympic, Olimpick, and Olympian: Britain’s alternative Olympic histories’, will explore Britian’s Olympic and Olympian Games in the centuries before Coubertin formed the IOC. The talk will start at 5.45pm in Room 4.44 of the Humanities Building, Cardiff University. For further information and confirmation of details of these lectures, please contact Peter Edbury: E-mail:Edbury@cardiff.ac.uk Tel: 029 20874313 or 029 20875651.