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  • Christmas Calendar 'Match It' Game.

    Christmas Calendar 'Match It' Game.

    Try our first activity, as part of the Hidden Histories Illustrated project. We have 24 unusual objects and images from ...
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  • December 2020 Newsletter

    December 2020 Newsletter

    Welcome to the December edition of our newsletter, which includes: Director’s Blog Christmas Calendar ‘Match It’ Game 2020 Conference Evaluation Julia Lee – A ...
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  • Podcast - In Conversation with Dame Sarah Storey DBE

    Podcast - In Conversation with Dame Sarah Storey DBE

    Dame Sarah Storey DBE joins the podcast to discuss her own sporting heritage and considers the importance of celebrating the achievements and all too often hidden histories of disability and women’s sport’s.
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Latest news

  • Community Sport & Recreation Awards 2021

    Community Sport & Recreation Awards 2021

    17/12/2020
    Entries for the Community Sport and Recreation Awards 2021 are now open, with cash prizes and national recognition up for ...
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  • Introducing Derek Peaple

    Introducing Derek Peaple

    17/12/2020
    s a former secondary headteacher, I’ve always been excited by Sporting Heritage’s education vision and ambition; my new role now offers a fantastic opportunity to work with sector stakeholders to develop a strategic plan for the practical delivery of innovative learning in both formal and informal settings
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  • December 2020 Newsletter

    December 2020 Newsletter

    17/12/2020
    Welcome to the December edition of our newsletter, which includes: Director’s Blog Christmas Calendar ‘Match It’ Game 2020 Conference Evaluation Julia Lee – A ...
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  • Podcast: Julia Lee - A Rugby League Pioneer

    Podcast: Julia Lee - A Rugby League Pioneer

    17/12/2020
    In this podcast, Russell Todd chats with Julia Lee, who is not only a member of the 'Disability and Women's Sports' project scoping team, but since the late 1980s has been a pioneer for women's involvement in rugby league.
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  • What if we looked at neurodiversity and museums differently?

    What if we looked at neurodiversity and museums differently?

    08/12/2020
    It’s taken a long to get to a stage where there’s time to write a blog about what we do! ...
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  • Football’s Black Pioneers

    Football’s Black Pioneers

    07/12/2020
    In 2016 we set out to commemorate the first black player at each of the 92 Football League clubs. In many cases the names of these pioneers were being lost to history.
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  • James Kibblewhite; Fastest Man in Purton

    James Kibblewhite; Fastest Man in Purton

    12/12/2020
    In a previous post I wrote upon the 200th anniversary of the founding of our Village Cricket club; however cricket ...
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  • November 2020 Newsletter

    November 2020 Newsletter

    25/11/2020
    Included in the November newsletter: 2020 Conference debrief, Neurodiverse museum pilot, Hidden Histories illustrated, join the Sporting Heritage Team, Nations updates, Football Heritage and National Collections of Sports networks, and the latest events, funding opportunities and sector news.
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  • Join our team!

    Join our team!

    22/11/2020
    As part of our current development activity, we’re looking for some new team members! Sporting Heritage is the Subject Specialist Network ...
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  • Podcast - In Conversation with Dame Sarah Storey DBE

    Podcast - In Conversation with Dame Sarah Storey DBE

    15/10/2020
    Dame Sarah Storey DBE joins the podcast to discuss her own sporting heritage and considers the importance of celebrating the achievements and all too often hidden histories of disability and women’s sport’s.
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  • 'Culture Recovery Fund' Success and Dame Sarah Storey to Launch 2020 Conference

    'Culture Recovery Fund' Success and Dame Sarah Storey to Launch 2020 Conference

    14/10/2020
    Double celebrations for Sporting Heritage this week as first we secured funding as part of the government’s #HereforCulture campaign, and ...
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  • October 2020 Newsletter

    October 2020 Newsletter

    21/10/2020
    Welcome to the October newsletter, which includes: Sporting Heritage Conference 2020, meet our sponsors, news from across the sector, webinars and events, and the latest Grants and Funding opportunities
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  • Richard Thomas: Policeman, Sportsman, Soldier.

    Richard Thomas: Policeman, Sportsman, Soldier.

    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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  • Boxing Statues of Wales

    Boxing Statues of Wales

    25/09/2020
    A different sport has been far more enthusiastic to commemorate its heroes. A sport which historian Dai Smith argues has as much of an umbilical connection with Welsh society and, especially its working classes, as rugby. That sport is boxing.
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  • September 2020 Newsletter

    September 2020 Newsletter

    30/09/2020
    In this months newsletter...National Sporting Heritage Day Sportlight, the latest on our Virtual Conference, a podcast with Goalball UK, apply for our community grants, digital sporting stories and the very latest sector news, webinars and funding opportunities. Take a look!
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  • Coal, Steel, Cycle Racing

    Coal, Steel, Cycle Racing

    21/09/2020
    Following the reaction to my contribution at the Sporting Heritage Conference in Cardiff (October 2019), both from participants and people who viewed this externally via the Sporting Heritage YouTube channel, it became apparent that an expansion of the theme – the support a community gave to the establishment of a cycle race through its sense of heritage and belonging – could be worthwhile.
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  • Podcast - Standing On the Shoulders of Those Who Came Before.

    Podcast - Standing On the Shoulders of Those Who Came Before.

    29/09/2020
    We discuss the role and value of sporting heritage to the rowing community and wider sporting family. Focusing on the relationship between Frances Houghton MBE OLY and the River and Rowing Museum
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  • Family Treasure Hunt!

    Family Treasure Hunt!

    11/09/2020
    Challenge yourself to complete our family treasure hunt for National Sporting Heritage Day!
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  • A Golden Centenary

    A Golden Centenary

    24/09/2020
    The Hockey Museum in Woking has had a first sight of a 1920 Olympic gold medal. It was won by Harry Haslam OBE, the Great Britain hockey goalkeeper at the Antwerp Games, and is on loan to the Museum from the Haslam family, together with memorabilia, including an oil painting of Haslam, an Antwerp participation medal and civilian medals.
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  • Podcast - Preserving the Heritage of Goalball

    Podcast - Preserving the Heritage of Goalball

    22/09/2020
    Earlier this year Sporting Heritage CIC launched it’s ‘Sporting Heritage of Disability and Women’s Sport’ project supported by Sport England. Sporting ...
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  • August 2020 Newsletter

    August 2020 Newsletter

    27/08/2020
    In the August newsletter: Sportlight on...Hockey, NHLF Emergency Support, #sportingheritage20 Digital Conference - book now! We Launch our Community Grants, a countdown to National Sporting Heritage Day; Sept 3oth and a special feature on the sport of Stoolball. As well as free webinars, podcasts, funding opportunities and the latest sector news. Take a look!
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  • Sporting Heritage announces new sector support programme

    Sporting Heritage announces new sector support programme

    26/08/2020
    Sporting Heritage are delighted to announce we have secured funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to deliver a programme ...
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  • Stoolball: ‘What Ball?’ History of the traditional, rural women’s sport.

    Stoolball: ‘What Ball?’ History of the traditional, rural women’s sport.

    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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  • Sporting Heritage Grants

    Sporting Heritage Grants

    24/08/2020
    Our annual community grants programme
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  • New Art of Ayresome Exhibition Celebrates Iconic Football Ground

    New Art of Ayresome Exhibition Celebrates Iconic Football Ground

    20/07/2020
    A new online football art exhibition celebrating Middlesbrough Football Club’s former Ayresome Park home has been launched as part of ...
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  • Community Archives and Heritage Scotland - Survey

    Community Archives and Heritage Scotland - Survey

    20/07/2020
    A new regional group of ARA UK & Ireland's Specialist Section, Community Archives and Heritage Group (CAHG) is being created: 'Community Archives and Heritage Groups - Scotland'. 
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  • July 2020 Newsletter

    July 2020 Newsletter

    16/07/2020
    In this month's newsletter: Missing sport? Welcome to our new Sportlight section!  Museum openings. Digital sporting stories. Learn about our scoping programme. Free webinars. Sporting Anniversaries project The study of the sporting wheelchair. Art of Ayresome Exhibition. As well as Sector news and funding opportunities.
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  • Women in Civil Service Sport

    Women in Civil Service Sport

    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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  • 2019 Summit Podcasts

    2019 Summit Podcasts

    01/11/2019
    Sporting Heritage's podcaster-in-residence, Russell Todd caught up with several of the 2019 delegates in Cardiff to produce the following podcast episodes.
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  • Sporting Heritage 2018 Conference

    Sporting Heritage 2018 Conference

    12/07/2018
    In 2018, the national Sporting Heritage conference was held at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool.  With a focus on ...
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