03/10/2020
While serving as a constable in Glamorgan, Thomas played a role in two Grand Slam winning Welsh rugby sides and became a champion boxer. Along with 9 other police officers of south Wales, Thomas is recognised as a member of Wales’ first golden generation of rugby [1900-1911].
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24/08/2020
One of the sports participating in our Sport England funded collections project is Stoolball. Anita Broad from Stoolball England gives us a whistle stop history and highlights some of the collections of this fascinating, largely female, sport.
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09/07/2020
As part of our project's scoping survey, we caught up with the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC). Celebrating their centenary in 2021, the CSSC were very happy to take a look back through their archives for us, including those highlighting the early sporting success of women and disabled employees.
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29/06/2020
This year, Purton Cricket Club will be celebrating its 200th anniversary. It is said to be the oldest cricket club in Wiltshire. An early member was the famed E. H. Budd, the first man to score a century at Marylebone Cricket Club ground (`Lords`) in 1816.
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29/06/2020
Local Tennis Leagues Ltd was originally set up around a fledgling league on Highbury Fields, London in May 2005. Since then, many hundreds of people have taken part, made friends and improved their game. We caught up with Paul Cudmore and Charlotte Mills from LTL to tell us more about their sporting story.
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21/04/2020
History of the Park
Coate Water County Park is the main green space in Swindon. It started life in the 1820s ...
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17/12/2019
After a start at Harrow School in the 1850s, squash is now played on around 50,000 courts in 185 countries, ...
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20/06/2018
The 2018 FIFA World Cup is well under way and what better way to celebrate than by looking back at ...
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28/02/2018
Roberta Cowell’s Story: An Autobiography, was published by Heinemann in Melbourne, Toronto and London in 1954. It was an important ...
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04/11/2017
England entered the 1950 finals as winners of the Home Nations. England started a habit of a lifetime and struggled ...
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03/11/2017
With his striking feathered headdress, his jewelled and embroidered attire and his signature cry of ‘I gotta horse!’, Ras Prince Monolulu ...
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30/10/2017
Tull made a swift transition from sport to war. In December 1914, he abandoned his football career, and volunteered to ...
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30/10/2017
I have always had a love of sport, especially football, and I first became interested in Walter Tull when I ...
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30/10/2017
The World Cup is an event that excites the footballing world. The English press heightens the expectations of a nation, ...
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30/10/2017
The Anglo-French clash in the St Leger was eagerly awaited and appeared to be a two-horse race. Heliopolis had won the Chester ...
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30/10/2017
We know that “The fastest horse wins the Guineas; the luckiest the Derby – and the best horse wins the ...
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23/10/2017
Other than Paul Nicholls, who has trained as well as ridden a winner of the Hennessy Gold Cup? The answer ...
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23/10/2017
(continued from part one)
After the war, he sought a quieter life and concentrated on racing, with Derek riding for him ...
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02/10/2017
Did you know that Palace House Stables has been the home of four Derby winners?
It’s hard to believe but in ...
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02/10/2017
Two years later the mighty French horse Gladiateur (Triple Crown winner) was trained in Newmarket followed by Hermit in 1867, ...
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11/09/2017
The 1970 Flat racing season was all about one horse, Nijinsky. The incomparable Irish superstar, who had become the first ...
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11/09/2017
(continued from part one)
A winning prize of £25,000 was on offer for the field of eight many of whom had ...
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26/06/2017
This collection of signatures features 12 of the men who delivered Exeter City FC’s first ever promotion in 1964. City ...
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26/06/2017
This photograph, taken in the early part of the 20th Century, shows fans gathering for a match against Norwich in ...
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