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Get a glimpse into the world of sporting heritage through our regular blog. We welcome guest contributions too - just download the Sporting Heritage Blog Contribution Template, complete and return to kevin@sportingheritage.org.uk 

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Birchfield Harriers Collection

    The Birchfield Harriers Collection

    29/06/2020
    One of the first amazing collections we received information about through this project’s scoping activity was from Birchfield Harriers – ...
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  • Russell Todd - The voice of our Podcast

    Russell Todd - The voice of our Podcast

    04/03/2020
    My name is Russell Todd, Sporting Heritage CIC’s podcaster-in-residence. If you have been at any of the Sporting Heritage summits ...
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  • #NSHD2019 - Rugby League...Keeping Memories Alive

    #NSHD2019 - Rugby League...Keeping Memories Alive

    11/11/2019
    Our project helps those who have a lifelong love of sport reminiscence and enjoy recalling their sporting and social heydays ...
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  • Blog - The golden ticket to sporting heritage success

    Blog - The golden ticket to sporting heritage success

    05/11/2019
    The culture of sport is constantly changing; the faces we see on our TV screens, increasing opportunity to get involved ...
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  • #NSHD2019 - Eye & District Cricket Club

    #NSHD2019 - Eye & District Cricket Club

    30/10/2019
    What a day – the weather held off after the week long down pours and hurricanes, as if a higher ...
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  • #NSHD2019 - Anglesey Sporting Heroes

    #NSHD2019 - Anglesey Sporting Heroes

    28/10/2019
    The island of Anglesey’s bid to host the International Island Games in 2025 was given a significant boost when the ...
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  • #NSHD2019 - Once a Wire Always a Wire

    #NSHD2019 - Once a Wire Always a Wire

    02/10/2019
    As part of National Sporting Heritage Day 2019 Warrington Wolves Charitable Foundation organised two events that celebrated the clubs rich ...
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  • It's A Knockout!

    It's A Knockout!

    23/04/2019
    At Wakefield Museums we have redeveloped our museum hub in the town of South Elmsall to celebrate the boxing heritage ...
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  • National Paralympic Heritage Trust and Sporting Heritage Day 2018

    National Paralympic Heritage Trust and Sporting Heritage Day 2018

    13/02/2019
    With thanks to funding received from Sporting Heritage, September was an eventful time at the Trust celebrating National Sporting Heritage ...
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  • From Personal to Professional: Why Sporting Heritage in Schools Really Matters...

    From Personal to Professional: Why Sporting Heritage in Schools Really Matters...

    10/01/2019
    That’s me. c.1980, Southern Boys’ Cross-Country Championships at Parliament Hill Fields, spiritual home of the sport. Perhaps even then I was ...
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  • Museums and Wellbeing

    Museums and Wellbeing

    16/02/2018
    The National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing was established in 2015. It was formed at a time when the ...
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  • New footprints in the sand

    New footprints in the sand

    12/01/2018
    When telling anyone I work in Qatar, the reaction I often get is “Oh, the country who won the world ...
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  • Contribute to our blog!

    Contribute to our blog!

    08/12/2017
    We’re really proud and pleased to be able to give the sporting heritage sector a voice through our blog. We’ve ...
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  • Match Analysis

    Match Analysis

    28/03/2017
    Those of you sports nuts who know all about Opta, ProZone and match analytics may find it hard to believe but once upon a time there was no computer analysis of sports matches.
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  • Football Fever at the Natural History Museum!

    Football Fever at the Natural History Museum!

    13/02/2017
    The World Cup of 2014 triggered an outbreak of football fever amongst some of the staff at the museum. With perfect timing, the museum archives had just catalogued a treasure trove of sporting memorabilia relating to the museum’s very own sports clubs.
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  • An interview with Allan Buxton

    An interview with Allan Buxton

    30/01/2017
    Our family was a boxing family of Watford. We were four brothers, known as the Buxton brothers.
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  • 60 Years a Gloucester Rugby Supporter

    60 Years a Gloucester Rugby Supporter

    30/01/2017
    The Kingsholm of 1947 was a far different world, the 'shed' of today was the 'popular' side or if you were an 'old fogey', the old stand side.
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  • Football Boots Worn by John Aldborough

    Football Boots Worn by John Aldborough

    09/01/2017
    Two of our work experience placement students both chose the football boots on display in Gallery One as their favourite object. Here are two very different perspectives on the same item.
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  • Cecil Rhodes and Cricket

    Cecil Rhodes and Cricket

    09/01/2017
    Sport is undoubtedly an integral part of contemporary British cultural life, yet there is an uneasy relationship between sports and heritage institutions, which sometimes seem to be from completely different worlds.
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  • The Original Aston Villa

    The Original Aston Villa

    17/10/2016
    At the end of a talk, the question was raised as to the precise location of the villa which gave its name first to a district in Aston, and then to the Wesleyan Chapel whose members formed the football club. It was suggested that there was a map in existence which gave this information.
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  • Bleddyn Williams – Prince of Centres

    Bleddyn Williams – Prince of Centres

    05/09/2016
    Here at Glamorgan Archives, we hold the papers of one of the giants of the game, Welsh centre Bleddyn Williams. Bleddyn Williams, the ‘Prince of Centres’, played for Cardiff for many years.
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