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  • 'Offside': Women's Football Across the Centuries

    'Offside': Women's Football Across the Centuries

    Currently on tour at Edinburgh Festival until August 28th, this play focuses on the prejudice and difficulties that Womens’ Football ...
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  • 1964 Exeter City Squad Signatures

    1964 Exeter City Squad Signatures

    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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  • 90 Unforgettable World Cup Moments

    90 Unforgettable World Cup Moments

    The 2018 FIFA World Cup is well under way and what better way to celebrate than by looking back at ...
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  • Association football and Irish-born player migration to Britain and the United States of America, 1888-1939

    Association football and Irish-born player migration to Britain and the United States of America, 1888-1939

    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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  • Derby Olympian: Horace Bailey (1881-1960)

    Derby Olympian: Horace Bailey (1881-1960)

    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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  • Digital archive of match day programmes for Tayport F.C.

    Digital archive of match day programmes for Tayport F.C.

    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 Enter the World Cup Finals

    England Enter the World Cup Finals

    England entered the 1950 finals as winners of the Home Nations. England started a habit of a lifetime and struggled ...
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  • Exeter City Club Legend, Sid Thomas

    Exeter City Club Legend, Sid Thomas

    This caricature features a man who is perhaps less known than he should be at Exeter City. Described as the ...
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  • Files from 1985/86: Football, Fire and Hooliganism

    Files from 1985/86: Football, Fire and Hooliganism

    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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  • Football Boots Worn by John Aldborough

    Football Boots Worn by John Aldborough

    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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  • Football Fever at the Natural History Museum!

    Football Fever at the Natural History Museum!

    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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  • Football’s Black Pioneers

    Football’s Black Pioneers

    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

    Maidstone: United in Football

    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 Says No!

    Manchester United Says No!

    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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  • New Art of Ayresome Exhibition Celebrates Iconic Football Ground

    New Art of Ayresome Exhibition Celebrates Iconic Football Ground

    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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  • No. 16 Platoon Football Team

    No. 16 Platoon Football Team

    This postcard shows the No 16 Platoon football team, which has some strong Anglesey connections.
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  • Paine Proffitt

    Paine Proffitt

    “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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  • Podcast - 90 Minutes of Freedom

    Podcast - 90 Minutes of Freedom

    ’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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  • Shrove Tuesday Football in Dorking

    Shrove Tuesday Football in Dorking

    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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  • Sue Smith

    Sue Smith

     “I am honoured to be an ambassador for the great work of Sporting Heritage where I will work in partnership ...
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  • The ‘Old Grandstand’, Exeter

    The ‘Old Grandstand’, Exeter

    This photograph, taken in the early part of the 20th Century, shows fans gathering for a match against Norwich in ...
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  • The Arnold Mitchell Collection, Exeter

    The Arnold Mitchell Collection, Exeter

    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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  • The Dick, Kerr's Ladies

    The Dick, Kerr's Ladies

    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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  • The Original Aston Villa

    The Original Aston Villa

    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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