15/06/2022
Nigel Huddleston, Minister for Sport, outlined that sporting heritage is central to the identity of Northern culture and communities, in ...
Find out more 05/05/2022
As part of February’s Art of Sporting Heritage Month, Russell Todd from Expo’r Wal Goch, the Welsh football social enterprise, was joined by guests to discuss the significance of football and other sports in the fiction of Rhondda writer Ron Berry (1920-1997).
Find out more 06/02/2022
Photographer Bartosz Nowicki reflects on life among the fans of Cardiff City FC, and his 'Bluebirds' exhibition.
Find out more 18/01/2022
Gayle Rogers shared her thoughts with us ahead of her 2022 exhibition at the Workers Gallery, What Time's Kickoff?
Find out more 30/11/2021
The City and District of Derry and Strabane District Council is steeped in sporting history. Our Sporting Heritage Community Grant allowed us to create a 'Sports of Our Time' exhibition, which opened on 30 September to celebrate our sporting heroes in all sports throughout our council area.
Find out more 17/11/2021
One consolation of the Covid-19 lockdowns was being able to “attend” last year’s Sporting Heritage online conference, which inspired me to put a bid in immediately for a Community Grant to make a film capturing stories from the diverse women’s football group I work with.
Find out more 04/11/2021
June 2016 - I ventured to the first major footballing championship (men’s) that Wales had qualified for in my lifetime: Euro 2016.
Find out more 04/11/2021
For National Sporting Heritage Day 2021 the Arlington Baths Club was proud to present the Battle of the Bathsmasters, a dramatisation of a 1879 media spat and public swimming contest to prove women’s swimming skills!
Find out more 20/10/2021
Durham Amateur Football Trust celebrated National Sporting Heritage Day with an exhibition entitled “A Day out at Wembley” on Saturday 2 October at King James 1 Academy, Bishop Auckland.
Find out more 19/10/2021
For this year's National Sporting Heritage Day we publicised Reading Museum’s forthcoming exhibition on 150 years of Reading FC, and celebrated our heritage through a range of activities.
Find out more 18/10/2021
Throughout the week of National Sporting Heritage Day, we shared with local people and schools the story of Claude Hailey, and Tennis Wales offered coaching sessions to local people, all of which helps us re-engage with the community after the pandemic.
Find out more 18/10/2021
Sharing stories, reminiscing about big wins & big losses, recalling great players, rekindling friendships was the order of the day.
Find out more 24/09/2021
As I sit in my studio creating the final Sporting Heritage resource for the hidden histories project, I begin to reflect on the past year.
Find out more 19/05/2021
This June will see the inaugural Expo #EWG21. Inevitably, it must take place online but across four days, 1- 4 June, the Expo will offer a stage to explore the game’s social, cultural and political impact and heritage through talks and panel discussions.
Find out more 18/04/2021
‘Sport’ as Nelson Mandela once so famously observed, ‘has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire.... It speaks to youth in a language they understand. And its this wide appeal to young people which lies at the very heart of Sporting Heritage’s new Education Strategy.
Find out more 15/04/2021
To help to answer this question the Understanding Audiences research was commissioned. With the aim of understanding if and how audience data is collected, analysed and used, and what this tells us, if anything, about who sporting audiences are.
Find out more 07/04/2021
Why don’t running clubs share and publicise their history? Clubs may feel that no-one outside the club would be interested. Committees are focused on the here and now of running their club and there is not a lot of time to think about the past.
Find out more 08/12/2020
I'm going to start with a new project we've just been successful in acquiring funding for, that's very close to my heart - The Neurodiverse Museum (generously funded by Art Fund).
Find out more 12/12/2020
In a previous post I wrote upon the 200th anniversary of the founding of our Village Cricket club; however cricket ...
Find out more 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.
Find out more 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.
Find out more 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.
Find out more 08/12/2017
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Find out more 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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