The Angling Trust holds the history and heritage of angling dating back to the middle of the 19th century.
Find out more Founder members of the football league in 1888, which board director William McGregor was instrumental in setting up, Aston Villa's history and tradition is reflected in their archives.
Find out more This collection of first edition volumes forms an "encyclopaedia to which the inexperienced man, who seeks guidance in the practice of the various British sports and pastimes, can turn for information" (Beaufort 1885).
Find out more The collection of Birchfield Harriers Athletics Club dating back to its formation in 1877.
Find out more The service holds records relating to Thomas Padmore & Sons, billiard table makers, Birmingham: records 1941-1954 (MS 4757)
Find out more The collection houses exhibits relating to Coventry's proud motor sports history, including Jaguar's Formula One car, rally cars from Rootes-Chrysler, and two Lea Francis Hypers one of which won its class at Le Mans 24 hour race in 1929 driven by Kenneth Peacock and co-driver Sammy Newsome.
Find out more Entitled ‘From Town to Town’ the project aims to chart the history of the football club from its formation in 1889 to the present day and to provide information and artefacts that can be taken out into the community to educate and enrich the lives of local people.
Find out more We hold archive records relating to sport at the university.
Find out more The the Cadbury Research Library has a number of records and archives relating to sporting achievement through the years. The collection includes original photographs and collections, part of an extensive Sports and Athletics Collections held at the University of Birmingham.
Find out more The National Basketball Heritage Centre (NBHC) was founded at the University of Worcester in 2015 and was initiated by major donations of historical basketball material from John Atkinson and Jenny Collins. It has since been recognized as the central repository for basketball history related material by the sport’s national governing bodies in the United Kingdom.
Find out more The primary aim of the National Cycle Archive is the preservation of documents relating to cycles and cycling. It consists of many separate collections of books, journals and archives deposited or donated by cycling bodies and individuals, and provides a wealth of information about the development of cycling, for sport and leisure, from the 19th century onwards.
Find out more The museum was created to display the history of fencing from 16th Century illustrated books on swordplay to modern sport. We are a private organisation run entirely by volunteers.
Find out more Oswestry Town Museum holds a collection related to paralympic Malcolm Tarkental as well as collections related to the local football club.
Find out more My interest is in the history of Lawn Tennis, particularly it’s early days and antecedents such as the game of Pelota or Lawn Rackets devised by Augurio Perera and his friend Harry Gem as early as 1859.
Find out more The Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) has a long history of helping to save the number of lives lost to drowning and our impressive sporting heritage is one of only a few, with humanism at its very heart.
Find out more Shropshire Archives has a number of records and archives relating to sport in the county. Do please visit our catalogue to discover what we hold.
Find out more Our project aims to record, display and preserve the first 75 years history of Tamworth Football Club in four main ways.
Find out more The National Archives manages a searchable national database of archives relating to sport.
Find out more The National Motorcycle Museum houses the largest collection of British motorcycles in the world with over 1000 machines from 171 different manufacturers spanning no less than three centuries!
Find out more The 'Mawer Collection' is an archive of 280 sources of mainly Physical Education literature and documents which date back to 1933.
Find out more The collection contains material covering Basketball in the USA, Europe and the UK with additional material on Olympic tournaments.
Find out more We hold many records in our collections relating to sports in the county including athletics, bowls, boxing, cricket, cycling, golf, motor sport, rowing and lawn tennis.
Find out more Wolverhampton City Archives exists to collect, preserve and make accessible historical records relating to the City of Wolverhampton, and to secure significant modern records for future generations. It holds a variety of sporting collections and archives.
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