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  • Bexley Local Studies and Archives

    Bexley Local Studies and Archives

    The Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre holds a number of important sporting archives as well as a great deal of material in the pamphlet and photographic collections.
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  • Cardiff Rugby Museum

    Cardiff Rugby Museum

    The Cardiff Rugby Museum is a collection of memories, mementos, reminiscences and records. Bringing Cardiff's unique rugby heritage to life, it aims to capture, preserve, celebrate and share over 142 years of history.
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  • Carmarthen Athletic RFC Museum

    Carmarthen Athletic RFC Museum

    Carmarthen Athletic's collection is quite unique as it not only display's the usual rugby union jerseys but also shirts from a wide variety of sports such football, rugby league, athletics etc. as well as all types of sporting footwear from a vast array of sports.
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  • Civil Service Sports Council

    Civil Service Sports Council

    The Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC) records date back to 1864. CSSC had an early vision to have sports ground around the UK and at one stage had 65 sports ground.
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  • Gloucester Rugby Heritage

    Gloucester Rugby Heritage

    The Gloucester Rugby Digital Archive is a collection of memories, mementoes, reminiscences and records. Bringing Gloucester's unique rugby heritage to life, it aims to capture, preserve, celebrate and share over 130 years of history.
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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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  • Liverpool St Helens Football Club

    Liverpool St Helens Football Club

    The archive of Liverpool St Helens football club - the oldest open rugby union club in the world, has been deposited at Liverpool Record Office.
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  • Merton Memories Photographic Archive

    Merton Memories Photographic Archive

    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.
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  • National Museums Scotland

    National Museums Scotland

    Archaeological to contemporary artefacts are included in the collections, and cover all sporting disciplines. There is a particular emphasis on traditional Scottish sports and games (hand ball games, stone and hammer throwing) and sports most commonly associated with Scotland (curling, football and rugby, golf, Highland games, motor-car/cycle racing, mountaineering and shinty).
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  • Sheffield Local Studies Library

    Sheffield Local Studies Library

    Sheffield Local Studies Library holds printed and published sources relating to both Sheffield United Football Club and Sheffield Wednesday Football Club. These include programmes, fanzines, photographs, tickets, club histories, video recordings, newspaper reports, supplements and cuttings.
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  • Sporting Legends Experience

    Sporting Legends Experience

    Authenticated by the Guinness Book of Records as the largest autographed collection of Sporting Memorabilia. View Russ Martin Memorabilia Man on facebook.
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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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  • Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

    Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

    Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre holds a great number of sport related archives, of which a small sample are exhbited.
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  • World Rugby Hall of Fame

    World Rugby Hall of Fame

    The World Rugby Hall of Fame allows visitors to take an inspirational journey through time using the latest HD touch-screen technology,
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  • World Rugby Hall of Fame

    World Rugby Hall of Fame

    Experience rugby's greats and the moments that defined the sport at the new, state-of-the-art World Rugby Hall of Fame.
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  • World Rugby Museum

    World Rugby Museum

    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.
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  • www.honours-caps.com

    www.honours-caps.com

    This website has been created to be an online resource for sharing photographs and information about all types of historical player issued caps. This should allow us over time to create a useful and informative resource.
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