Currently on tour at Edinburgh Festival until August 28th, this play focuses on the prejudice and difficulties that Womens’ Football ...
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This collection of signatures features 12 of the men who delivered Exeter City FC’s first ever promotion in 1964. City ...
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The 2018 FIFA World Cup is well under way and what better way to celebrate than by looking back at ...
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February 22nd 2018
13.00 – 14.00
This talk will explore Irish-born footballers’ migration in the 1888 to 1939 period – in particular, ...
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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.
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Tayport Football Club has been issuing programmes for most home matches since the early 1990s and each of these programmes, ...
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England entered the 1950 finals as winners of the Home Nations. England started a habit of a lifetime and struggled ...
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This caricature features a man who is perhaps less known than he should be at Exeter City. Described as the ...
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The mid-1980s are often characterised as a period of success, excess and the shoulder-padded dress. In the political sphere this ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Maidstone: United in Football not only tells the remarkable history of football in the town. It also paints a vivid ...
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Manchester United had been invited by Glentoran FC to play a match at the Oval to promote the Ulster '71 Festival.
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A new online football art exhibition celebrating Middlesbrough Football Club’s former Ayresome Park home has been launched as part of ...
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This postcard shows the No 16 Platoon football team, which has some strong Anglesey connections.
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“Sport tells a lot about who we are, where we’re from and has a large impact on society, our past, ...
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’90 Minutes of Freedom’ is a brand new book by criminal justice researcher Jamie Grundy, who spent the whole 2018-19 ...
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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.
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“I am honoured to be an ambassador for the great work of Sporting Heritage where I will work in partnership ...
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This photograph, taken in the early part of the 20th Century, shows fans gathering for a match against Norwich in ...
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Arnold Mitchell (1929-2014) played in every position, including a stint in goal, but was best known for his defensive roles. ...
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In the later years of the First World War and in the years following, women’s teams became more and more common.
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At the end of a talk, the question was raised as to the precise location of the villa which gave its name first to a district in Aston, and then to the Wesleyan Chapel whose members formed the football club. It was suggested that there was a map in existence which gave this information.
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