The papers of Thomas McLurg Anderson are our primary sport-related collection. A full source guide is available on request.
Find out more At North Lanarkshire Archives we hold records or items from clubs and individuals in the area. In addition, we hold many images of sporting events throughout North Lanarkshire as well as records of recreational clubs, businesses and school sports activities.
Find out more Material ranges from views of the largest towns to the smallest villages, as well as covering a variety of themes such as agriculture, industry, leisure, religion and sport. Sporting themes include archive images of The Old Show Ground, Scunthorpe.
Find out more School sporting history from 1847 to present. Includes photographs, fixtures lists, team reports, log books for soccer, rowing, rugby, athletics, racket sports (including real tennis, rackets, squash, fives).
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 The Sporting Memories Network features online memories collected by a charity which uses memories of sport as a form of reminiscence activity for people suffering from dementia, depression and loneliness.
Find out more Surrey History Centre holds a number of important sporting archives. We also have ancient records in Surrey History Centre including two of the earliest known references to cricket. Records and information relating to motor racing, golf, shooting, football, cycling in Surrey and many more can be found on our Exploring Surrey's Past website.
Find out more The Athletics Museum is currently a digital only museum, created as part of the Athletics Heritage project, a joint venture between the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) and England Athletics (EA).
Find out more The Oral History of British Athletics (Sound & Moving Image Catalogue no: C790) collection is a rolling programme of life story interviews with British athletes.
Find out more 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 Featuring portraits of everyday sporting events such as Reverend Robert Walker (1755 - 1808) skating on Duddingston Loch, through to modern day luminaries such as golfer Colin Montgomerie, the collection is extensive and showcases Scotland's sports and leisure pursuits.
Find out more The University of Glasgow’s Archives and Special Collections document the long standing relationship between sport and student life.
Find out more The University Archives contain records of sports clubs and teams such as the University of Liverpool's Athletics Club (Athletic Union) and also the records of the British Universities Sports Association (BUSA). The Children's Book collections contain nearly 700 19th-20th century volumes on the history of physical education, gymnastics and other sports from Archery to Yachting. Many are illustrated with contemporary photographs.
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 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 West Dunbartonshire Council Archives looks after records related to the people, places, businesses and communities in West Dunbartonshire. Among these, we hold a huge number of sporting collections, which provide a huge amount of information about the sporting history of the area, and the people who competed.
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 The WheelPower Collection has many objects, images and film related to the Paralympics which date from the 1940s to the present day. It has housed at the National Paralympic Heritage Trust.
Find out more Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre holds a great number of sport related archives, of which a small sample are exhbited.
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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