In this episode, Hedley Featherstone from the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC) provides a flavour of the role played by women in civil service sports participation, excellence, administration and governance since its founding in November 1921
Find out more We catch up with our newest Sporting Ambassador, Joanie Evans to discusses her personal sporting heritage and why it’s important to celebrate diversity and work towards better representation in sport.
Find out more Former Doncaster Belles and England defender Michelle Jackson chats to Verity Smith from Sporting Heritage about her playing career, and shares her thoughts on the progress in women's football and the potential legacy of the UEFA Women's Euro 2022.
Find out more In this episode, recorded in the run up to the UEFA Women's Euro 2022, we talk to Stephen Bolton, who shares his research into the history of women's football. Including how he discovered the incredible story of his grandmother, Lizzy Ashcroft, one of the most influential and important pre-WW2 amateur women footballers.
Find out more “I am so delighted to join the Sporting Heritage Ambassador family and support this year’s National Sporting Heritage Day. Growing up, I didn’t see many black women playing football, or people from the LGBT+ community being celebrated in sport and that is something I have spent my sporting life changing and ensuring the next generation has a heritage they can learn from and be inspired by.”
Find out more Our project team is working to deliver the aims and objectives over the coming years. Led by our Director, Dr ...
Find out more In these podcast episodes and accounts, we discuss the incredible story, and celebrated portrait of Rose Reilly MBE, the former footballer for both Italy and Scotland. And we consider the place of this portrait among the wider representations of sport in the art collections held by the National Galleries of Scotland.
Find out more Dame Sarah Storey DBE joins the podcast to discuss her own sporting heritage and considers the importance of celebrating the achievements and all too often hidden histories of disability and women’s sport’s.
Find out more Sporting Heritage CIC has recently launched it’s Disability and Women’s Sports project, funded by Sport England. It aims to help ...
Find out more We discuss the role and value of sporting heritage to the rowing community and wider sporting family. Focusing on the relationship between Frances Houghton MBE OLY and the River and Rowing Museum
Find out more In this podcast, Russell Todd chats with Julia Lee, who is not only a member of the 'Disability and Women's Sports' project scoping team, but since the late 1980s has been a pioneer for women's involvement in rugby league.
Find out more Sporting Heritage is a not-for-profit community interest company who works to support the collection, preservation, access and research of sporting ...
Find out more One of the sports participating in our Sport England funded collections project is Stoolball. Anita Broad from Stoolball England gives us a whistle stop history and highlights some of the collections of this fascinating, largely female, sport.
Find out more One of the first amazing collections we received information about through this project’s scoping activity was from Birchfield Harriers – ...
Find out more Programme Objectives Over the next three years, we will be working hard to deliver a project which: Has a focus on, but ...
Find out more The stage is being set for the UEFA European Women’s Championship 2022 this summer, and to celebrate the heritage of women’s football our education lead, Derek Peaple has helped create a new resource as part of the UEFA Football in Schools Programme.
Find out more As part of our project's scoping survey, we caught up with the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC). Celebrating their centenary in 2021, the CSSC were very happy to take a look back through their archives for us, including those highlighting the early sporting success of women and disabled employees.
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