Simon Inglis

Simon Inglis
Born	Birmingham
Nationality	British
Occupation	Author, Historian

Simon Inglis is a British sports historian,architectural historian, writer and broadcaster, most notably about football and stadiums.

Inglis was born in Sparkhill, Birmingham in 1955. He read History and the History of Architecture at University College London, later training as a teacher in Leeds and teaching history at a comprehensive in Walthalmstow, North London. Inglis is currently editor of the Played in Britain series on sporting heritage, published by Historic England. He describes himself as a now mainly 'arms length' Aston Villa fan.

In December 2005 he was described as an "iconoclastic historian" and "a national treasure who must be encouraged at all costs". His illustrated biography of the Scottish football ground designer Archibald Leitch, Engineering Archie, was runner up in the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2005.

Inglis summarised Leitch's career for FourFourTwo Magazine in 2015.

Great Lengths, the historic indoor swimming pools of Britain, which Inglis co-authored with Dr Ian Gordon, received wide praise in the national press.

Inglis' book Played in London, charting the heritage of a city at play, was published in September 2014 to great acclaim. It was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014, selected as Book of the Year by both the Londonist website [1] and the London Historians and described by the Mail Online as a "remarkable book" [2] and a "cracking good read" by The Times. Signed copies are available from Played in Britain [3]

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