- Mention for my article on the 1908 Olympic Marathon on an Ultramarathon blog
- ‘400 Years of the Chipping Campden Olimpicks‘, a feature on the games including an interview with me, Evesham Journal, 10 September 2011
- ‘Britain’s Olympic Heritage’, Southern Daily Echo feature by Keith Hamilton, 6 October 2011
- ‘Champion Swimmer Henry Taylor and Chadderton’s Olympic History’, Manchester Evening News feature by Paul Taylor, 10 October 2011
- The British Olympics, lecture at the University of Winchester, 4 November 2011
- The British Olympics, book review, and extract, ‘When Birmingham Staged the Olympic Games‘, from The Birmingham Press, 8 November 2011
- The British Olympics gets a mention in Tanya Mohn’s travel piece for Forbes, ‘The Olympic Town No One Has Heard Of’
- Frank Keating in The Guardian on his favourite sports books of the year, including The British Olympics, 29 November 2011
- Paul Taylor of the Manchester Evening News mentions The British Olympics in his blog post on the 2012 opening ceremony.
- Simon Redfern names The British Olympics as one of his Christmas books of the year in The Independent, 18 December 2011.
- Londonist reviews The British Olympics, 21 December 2011
- Alex Wade reviews The British Olympics in the Christmas edition of the Times Literary Supplement, 23 December 2011.
- Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football includes The British Olympics in his eclectic list of his favourite books of 2011. His review also appeared on Socialist Unity and in the Morning Star.
- The Morpeth Herald on my coverage of the Morpeth Olympic Games in The British Olympics, with a great shot of Fred Moffatt, a local historian who I interviewed.
- Pre-publicity for my talk in Morpeth in April from The Morpeth Herald.
- More on Morpeth from the Newcastle Chronicle – let’s hope that someone finds the trophy.
- I give a bit of historical background on the British royal family and the Olympic Games in this article in The Times of India, 16 March 2012.
- I provide a bit of historical perspective on Olympic technology in Kari Lundgren’s article for Bloomberg, 1 June 2012.
- A mention for my book in the Morpeth Herald, 8 June 2012.
- West Hampstead Life‘s report on my talk with Simon Inglis at West End Lane Books in West Hampstead, 8 July 2012
- Interviewed for USA Today on Olympic security, 12 July 2012.
- Interviewed for Origo (Budapest) on Olympic diplomacy, 26 July 2012 (article in Hungarian)
- Interviewed in Wall Street Journal video on London’s Olympic history, 27 July 2012.
- Interviewed for Chosun Ilbo (Japan) on the Olympic torch relay, 27 July 2012.
- Interviewed for Reuters on Olympic underdogs, 30 July 2012.
- Interviewed by Reuters on the history of Olympic doping, 1 August 2012.
- My book is the basis for many of Jennifer Smith’s ’50 Things You Never Knew About the Olympics’ in the Daily Telegraph, 1 August 2012.
- Interviewed for AP for an article on Ludwig Guttmann, 28 August 2012