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  • Casgliad y Werin Cymru / People's Collection Wales

    Casgliad y Werin Cymru / People's Collection Wales

    The People's Collection Wales is a website dedicated to the story of Wales and its people. It is a dynamic and bilingual online experience full of fascinating photographs, sound recordings, documents, videos and stories about the history and heritage of Wales and its people.
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  • Guardian News & Media Archive

    Guardian News & Media Archive

    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.
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  • London Metropolitan Archives

    London Metropolitan Archives

    London Metropolitan Archives specialises in the history of London. We hold many sporting collections, which can be accessed by our online catalogue.
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  • London Metropolitan Archives - Olympic and Paralympic Collections

    London Metropolitan Archives - Olympic and Paralympic Collections

    The London Metropolitan Archives holds a collection of ephemera and literature relating to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, including administration and organisational information, maps, and images depicting the stadia and set up of the Games.
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  • Museum of Childhood

    Museum of Childhood

    The museum has a small collection of ephemera related to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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  • National Athletics Archive, University of Birmingham

    National Athletics Archive, University of Birmingham

    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.
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  • National Media Museum

    National Media Museum

    Ranging the breadth of media forms, the National Media Museum includes the National Photography Collection, the National Cinematography Collection, the National Television Collection, and the National New Media Collection. Sport, naturally, features heavily within these collections.
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  • National Portrait Gallery

    National Portrait Gallery

    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.
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  • Sporting Memories Network

    Sporting Memories Network

    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.
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  • The British Library

    The British Library

    The Oral History of British Athletics (Sound & Moving Image Catalogue no: C790) collection is a rolling programme of life story interviews with British athletes.
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  • The British Museum

    The British Museum

    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.
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  • The Hockey Museum

    The Hockey Museum

    The Hockey Museum (formerly the National Hockey Museum) has been operating for just over two and a half years and in that time has grown rapidly as collections, big and small, have arrived on an almost daily basis. The collections of artefacts and archives cover every aspect of hockey.
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  • The National Archives

    The National Archives

    The National Archives manages a searchable national database of archives relating to sport.
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  • Tyne and Wear Museums, Newcastle

    Tyne and Wear Museums, Newcastle

    Tyne and Wear Museums have the collections of Paralympians Phil Richardson and Stephen Miller on loan.
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  • University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections

    University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections

    The University of Glasgow’s Archives and Special Collections document the long standing relationship between sport and student life.
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  • University of Westminster Archives

    University of Westminster Archives

    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.
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