Dr Wayne Peake

Dr Wayne Peake is the Research Program Coordinator for CCR. From 2002 until February 2007, he was the Research and Records Management Coordinator for the Institute for International Studies, University of Technology Sydney. He was research librarian specialising in sport for the Sydney Olympic Games Organising Committee, and an editor and writer for the Games’ Official Report.

Dr Peake’s primary research interest is the social history of Australian horse racing. Others include the marketing and internationalisation of thoroughbred and harness racing, the history of radio, film and television coverage of horse racing, Olympic Games history, and the history of the Australian press, in particular regarding its treatment of sport.

Qualifications

2005 PhD, Australian History, University of Western Sydney

1995 A/DipA, Library Practice (Distinction): Sydney Institute Technology

1983 BA, English language, European history, University of Sydney

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Publications

Books
Lawson, S. and Peake, W. (eds) 2007, Globalization and Regionalization: Views From the Pacific Rim, Guadalajara: Editorial Centro Universitario De Ciencias Sociales Y Humanidades, University De Guadalajara.

Peake, W. 2006, Sydney's Pony Racecourses: An Alternative Racing History, Sydney: Walla Walla Press.

Barclay, K. and Peake, W. (eds) 2005, Globalization, Regionalization and Social Change in the Pacific Rim, Guadalajara: Editorial Centro Universitario De Ciencias Sociales Y Humanidades, University De Guadalajara.

Book Chapters

Peake, W. 2008, 'Taking the Heat out of the 'Red Hots': The Americanisation of Harness Racing in Australia', in, McConville, C. (ed.), A Global Racecourse: Work, Culture & Horse Sports, Melbourne: Australian Society for Sports History (ASSH), pp 27-48.

Journals Articles

Peake, W. 2009, ‘History of Pony Racing on Early Sydney Race Tracks – Part 2’, BlueBloods, March: 30-32.

Peake, W. 2009, ‘History of Pony Racing on Early Sydney Race Tracks – Part 1’, BlueBloods, February: 37-38.

Peake, W. 2006, 'Taking the Heat out of the 'Red Hots': Has the Americanization of Harness Racing in Australia been a Shot in the Arm – Or the Hoof?', Harness Racing International, March/April: pp 20-25.

Peake, W. 2004, 'The Significance of Unregistered Proprietary Racing in the Social History of Australian Horse Racing', Sporting Traditions: Journal of the Australian Society for Sports History, 20(2): 1-18.

Peake, W. 1995, 'Victoria Park: The Randwick of the Ponies', Turf Monthly, 43(9)

Peake, W. 1995, 'Rosebery: Where the Baron Ruled the Turf', Turf Monthly, 43(12)

Reports

Toohey, K., MacLaren, S. and Peake, W. (eds) 2001, Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad, Sydney, Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games.

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