Currently on tour at Edinburgh Festival until August 28th, this play focuses on the prejudice and difficulties that Womens’ Football ...
Find out more One consolation of the Covid-19 lockdowns was being able to “attend” last year’s Sporting Heritage online conference, which inspired me to put a bid in immediately for a Community Grant to make a film capturing stories from the diverse women’s football group I work with.
Find out more This collection of signatures features 12 of the men who delivered Exeter City FC’s first ever promotion in 1964. City ...
Find out more The 2018 FIFA World Cup is well under way and what better way to celebrate than by looking back at ...
Find out more February 22nd 2018 13.00 – 14.00 This talk will explore Irish-born footballers’ migration in the 1888 to 1939 period – in particular, ...
Find out more Horace Peter Bailey was born in Derby on 3rd July 1881 to Peter Bailey, an iron and brass moulder / iron foundry foreman, and his wife Sarah.
Find out more Tayport Football Club has been issuing programmes for most home matches since the early 1990s and each of these programmes, ...
Find out more England entered the 1950 finals as winners of the Home Nations. England started a habit of a lifetime and struggled ...
Find out more This caricature features a man who is perhaps less known than he should be at Exeter City. Described as the ...
Find out more The mid-1980s are often characterised as a period of success, excess and the shoulder-padded dress. In the political sphere this ...
Find out more Two of our work experience placement students both chose the football boots on display in Gallery One as their favourite object. Here are two very different perspectives on the same item.
Find out more The World Cup of 2014 triggered an outbreak of football fever amongst some of the staff at the museum. With perfect timing, the museum archives had just catalogued a treasure trove of sporting memorabilia relating to the museum’s very own sports clubs.
Find out more In 2016 we set out to commemorate the first black player at each of the 92 Football League clubs. In many cases the names of these pioneers were being lost to history.
Find out more This June will see the inaugural Expo #EWG21. Inevitably, it must take place online but across four days, 1- 4 June, the Expo will offer a stage to explore the game’s social, cultural and political impact and heritage through talks and panel discussions.
Find out more Maidstone: United in Football not only tells the remarkable history of football in the town. It also paints a vivid ...
Find out more Manchester United had been invited by Glentoran FC to play a match at the Oval to promote the Ulster '71 Festival.
Find out more A new online football art exhibition celebrating Middlesbrough Football Club’s former Ayresome Park home has been launched as part of ...
Find out more This postcard shows the No 16 Platoon football team, which has some strong Anglesey connections.
Find out more "I'm hugely proud to be an Ambassador for Sporting Heritage and I hope my artwork can help capture and remember the glorious sporting past, the events, the history and character of UK sport."
Find out more ’90 Minutes of Freedom’ is a brand new book by criminal justice researcher Jamie Grundy, who spent the whole 2018-19 ...
Find out more In this episode, recorded as part of the Ignored Heritage pilot project, we reflect on the film 'Millwall Black and White', with project lead, Kristopher Mckie, producer, Ole Jensen, and one of the stars of and contributors to the film, Ron Bell.
Find out more In this episode as part of the Ignored Heritage project, project lead Kristopher Mckie is joined by: Humayun Islam, CEO of the BEAP Community Partnership and founder of Bangla Bantams, and Dr Dan Kilvington, Senior Lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture at Leeds Beckett University.
Find out more Dorking’s street football probably had its origins in the Catholic Lenten festivals that took place all over England before the Reformation. On the morning of Shrove Tuesday shopkeepers barricaded their premises and children were given the day off school.
Find out more “I am honoured to be an ambassador for the great work of Sporting Heritage where I will work in partnership ...
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