This website contains our unique and comprehensive Channel Swimming photographic archive and object collection.
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 Larne Museum & Arts Centre’s main gallery hosts permanent displays reflecting the history of the area, with a small display revealing aspects of local sporting heritage, including artefacts relating to swimmer Dianne Barr who won two gold medals at the 1988 Paralympic Games in Seoul.
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 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 The Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) has a long history of helping to save the number of lives lost to drowning and our impressive sporting heritage is one of only a few, with humanism at its very heart.
Find out more Sheffield Archives & Local Studies holds the records for both Sheffield United Football Club and Sheffield Wednesday Football Club. In addition, Sheffield City Archives holds original archive records relating to a variety of local, amateur sporting organisations.
Find out more 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.
Find out more We hold records of sporting activity in an Oxford college (women only 1893-2008, mixed from 2008).
Find out more A number of collections are all available to view in our searchroom (open Mon-Thurs). Some of the collections are small so it is advisable to contact us in advance of your visit for more details.
Find out more The Swim England Library has a new home at Sport Park in Loughborough, alongside the offices of Swim England.
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 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 Victoria Baths Archive represents the rich social and sporting history of Victoria Baths, the Baths and Wash-houses of Manchester, and the history of swimming and Turkish Baths in general. It contains pictures, documents, objects, audio, video and memories.
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 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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