DMU’s Special Collections is based in Library and Learning Services. In partnership with the International Centre for Sports History and Culture we are developing our holdings relating to sports.
Find out more After years of covering national and global sporting events, it is unsurprising that the Guardian News and Media (GNM) Archive holds a number of sporting records. Descriptions of all our records are available through our online catalogue.
Find out more Produced by Merton Library and Heritage Service, the Merton Memories website offers unprecedented access to a unique collection of photographs charting the history of Merton over the past 150 years.
Find out more The Museum of Liverpool includes a permanent gallery of objects and archives associated with a range of sports.
Find out more The National Portrait Gallery has a vast collection of images relating to sporting heroes of Great Britain from both past and present. Images trace the popular image of the British sporting hero in works of art dating from the 18th century to the present day.
Find out more The papers of Thomas McLurg Anderson are our primary sport-related collection. A full source guide is available on request.
Find out more The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum stewards Wales' oldest Regiment spanning over 300 years. Sports were an integral part of the Regiment for both morale, welfare, and competition. Our sporting collection includes trophies, medals, score cards, photographs, and sportswear from a plethora of sporting pursuits.
Find out more The Low Parks Museum buildings include the Duke of Hamilton's Riding School which, during its life, was also used as a boxing training club.
Find out more The Special Collections at the University of Southampton holds manuscript and printed collections relating to the sports teams of the University and those of its predecessor institutions, the sporting activities of Anglo-Jewish youth groups, the sporting interests of individuals, and to sport in Hampshire.
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 We are Britain's leading charity that supports the promotion of British sporting art. The British Sporting Art Trust was established in 1977 to bring together a representative collection of sporting art for public exhibition and to promote interest in the subject.
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 Online database/digital archive of the UK's sports statues, as well as the world's football statues, cricket statues and baseball statues. Over 1000 sports statues mapped and photographed.
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 Wakefield Museums’ Playmakers collection illustrates a proud local tradition of high tech, high quality sports manufacturing.
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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