Bernard Whimpress (born 1948) is an Australian historian and author, most active in the area of sports history and especially cricket. He was curator of the museum at Adelaide Oval.

Early life and education

Whimpress was born in 1948. He is a graduate of Flinders University in Adelaide.

Career

Whimpress was publications manager of the South Australian National Football League from 1979 to 1984, during which time he edited the Football Budget and wrote his first book, The South Australian Football Story. From 1994 to 2009 he was curator of the Adelaide Oval Museum. He published and edited the journal of Australian cricket history, Baggy Green, from 1998 until 2010. Whimpress has also published two volumes of memoir and other books on family history, oral history, art history, and poetry.

Journalism/history

Articles, reviews and journalism by Whimpress on sporting and other subjects have appeared in numerous magazines and journals in Australia. He edited the journal Baggy Green from its inception in 1998 until 2010. He has written several entries about sportsmen in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Work with sporting organisations

Whimpress was curator of the Adelaide Oval Museum and Historian for the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) from 1994 to 2009. He is a member of the Australian Society for Sports History (ASSH), and is the founding editor of ASSH (SA) Proceedings (2016/7-).

Recognition

Whimpress won the History Council of South Australia's Life-Long History Achievement Award in 2017 and is recognised as the leading sports historian in South Australia. His 1999 work Passport to Nowhere was short-listed for the Jack Pollard Trophy in 2000.

Selected works