Petra Tabarelli

Archivist • Historian • Author

Affiliation

Head of the local archive of Bingen on the Rhine

Appointed member of the German Academy of Football Culture

Vice chairwoman Historische Gesellschaft Bingen

Research Interests

Public History & Nostalgia Studies
Focus: British Romantic Rhine Tourism (1813-1863), Nostalgia & Englishness in Midsomer Murders (Inspector Barnaby)

Football History
Focus: Development of Football Rules

Biography

While studying history and cultural anthropology at Mainz University (as well as musicology and a few semesters of computer science), I started working for the town administration of Bingen on the Rhine and to record the local archive. 2018-2024 I am working part-time as head of the archive, and since July 2024, I manage the archive full-time.

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My research is all about the 19th century and nostalgia research from the perspective of a public and cultural historian. I’m particularly interested in British tourism on the Romantic Rhine, which is quite different from the German Romantic Rhine, but which are nevertheless interdependent. I’m focusing on the period after the lifting of the Continental Blockade up to the beginning of railway tourism on the Romantic Rhine.

As I’m an archivist in Bingen on the Rhine, I naturally focus on the Binger Loch.

Football Historian

I also work as an independent football historian, combining my passions with history. As an international football rules pundit I work with the highest football rules institution, the International Football Association Board (History project – I have nothing to do with the latest rule changes). I keen in writing articles and being interviewed for radio and television. Over the last few years, my website “Nachspielzeiten” has collected numerous German and English-language articles on the history of football rules and refereeing. I have worked also with DFB, Der Kicker, Deutschlandfunk, Rasenfunk, ZDF/TerraX and other TV stations (SAT.1, SWR, HR), the British Society of Sports History, Soccerex and others.

Midsomer Murders & History

As a football historian, I’m passionate about history. I also have a passion for nostalgia research. I’m really into nostalgia and public history, especially Midsomer Murders (Inspector Barnaby).

On MidsomerMurdersHistory.org I have published a chronology of the fictional county district of Midsomer based on the episodes so far, as well as a list of all the history-related events in the series, as well as some background on the filming locations.
(Please note: This is an unofficial fan site. I am not affiliated with Bentley Productions, ITV or any of the actors.)

More to explore:

Monthly Newsletter
About Me (on MidsomerMurdersHistory.org)

You can also hear me in the superfan quiz on the official Midsomer Murders Mayhem podcast in episode 6: “Murder on St Malley’s Day”, episode 13: “The Ballad of Midsomer County”, and episode 15: “The Dark Rider”.

Publications

(see for more on my profile on academia.edu)

Book

Petra Tabarelli: Simon Rosenberger, der vergessene Fußballpionier (= Jüdische Miniaturen). Berlin 2022.
150 Jahre MGV 1866 Ockenheim, 1866-2016. Schlaglichter aus der 150-jährigen Vereinsgeschichte. Ockenheim 2016.

Chapter in book

Jüdische Sportjournalist*innen und -journalisten beim Kicker – Willy Meisl, Stella Bloch, Ludwig Isenburger, Simon Rosenberger. In: Einig, Furchtlos, Treu. Der Kicker im Nationalsozialismus – eine Aufarbeitung. Die Werkstatt: Göttingen 2022.
Jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne. In: 1. FSV Mainz 05. Fußballfibel. Oldenburg 2021.
Dem Vulkan geweiht – Bingen und das Binger Land, 4. Juni 1689. In: Kartographie der Zerstörung. Alzey 2020.
Die Stadtverwaltung Bingen und ihr Personal 1933-1945. In: Bingen im Nationalsozialismus – Quellen und Studien. Bad Kreuznach 2018.
Die Überlieferung des Binger Stadtarchivs als Spiegel der kommunalen Verwaltungstätigkeit in der NS-Zeit. In: Bingen im Nationalsozialismus – Quellen und Studien. Bad Kreuznach 2018.

CfA

Victoria College in Bingen on the Rhine. In: Playing Pasts, 2022.

Presentation

The beginnings of modern football and the first men’s World Cup in 1930 (Soccerex Heritage 2021) (nicht online)
Influence of Covid-19 on football (m & f) in Germany (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Sport) (nicht online)