The British Museum holds many antiquities dating across a period of some 2,000 years and more. Unsurprisingly, the Olympic Games feature heavily in the museum's sporting collections.
Find out more Based in the headquarters of English freemasonry, this collection includes items relating to individual lodges connected to sports including rowing, athletics, rugby and membership information about English sportsmen who were freemasons.
Find out more The National Archives manages a searchable national database of archives relating to sport.
Find out more The Sainsbury Archive documents the development of the supermarket chain from its foundation in 1869 to the present. The collection includes a few different strands of material relating to sports and sporting heritage, including Paralympic heritage.
Find out more A small collection of mostly domestic objects found in Percy House during the restoration between 2016 and 2017. Up to 100 Sport related objects include membership cards and Spurs match day programmes.
Find out more We hold the records of the clubs and societies affiliated to the Regent Street Polytechnic. The most famous of these were the Polytechnic Harriers, Polytechnic Boxing Club, Polytechnic Fencing Club and the Polytechnic Cycling Club.
Find out more The Wellcome Trust hold the archive of Sir Ludwig Guttmann (1899-1980), the founder of the Paralympic Games.
Find out more Westminster School Archive holds records relating to sport at the school dating back to the early 19th century. The content of these records covers the sporting activities of pupils while at Westminster School, as well as some fixtures for ‘Old Westminsters’ - our alumni - and our playing fields at Vincent Square.
Find out more Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum tells the story of how tennis evolved from a Victorian garden party to today’s multi-million dollar professional sport.
Find out more The sheer range of sports on offer to soldiers during the Army’s long history is remarkable. Yet some of these pursuits were not always accessible to the rank and file. At times there were also restrictions on who could compete against whom, and which sports were suitable for certain personnel.
Find out more The World Rugby Museum contains the world’s largest collection of rugby football and pre-code football artefacts. The objects come from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries and are derived from all rugby-playing nations.
Find out more The international archive for the sport of squash, encompassing books, magazines, handbooks, annuals, programmes, photographs and DVDs / VHS cassettes.
Find out more Mae'r Archifau Cenedlaethol yn rheoli cronfa ddata genedlaethol chwiliadwy o archifau sy'n ymwneud â chwaraeon.
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