The Hockey Museum in Woking has had a first sight of a 1920 Olympic gold medal. It was won by Harry Haslam OBE, the Great Britain hockey goalkeeper at the Antwerp Games, and is on loan to the Museum from the Haslam family, together with memorabilia, including an oil painting of Haslam, an Antwerp participation medal and civilian medals.
Find out more Earlier this year Sporting Heritage CIC launched it’s ‘Sporting Heritage of Disability and Women’s Sport’ project supported by Sport England. Sporting ...
Find out more Following the reaction to my contribution at the Sporting Heritage Conference in Cardiff (October 2019), both from participants and people who viewed this externally via the Sporting Heritage YouTube channel, it became apparent that an expansion of the theme – the support a community gave to the establishment of a cycle race through its sense of heritage and belonging – could be worthwhile.
Find out more Challenge yourself to complete our family treasure hunt for National Sporting Heritage Day!
Find out more Sporting Heritage are delighted to announce we have secured funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to deliver a programme ...
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 A guide to interpreting and filming your sporting heritage collections and preparing the video to share with audiences online.
Find out more Please read our webinar guidelines before participating in any of the Sporting Heritage training events. The guide will help ensure you can access and use the Zoom platform during the webinar and know what to expect.
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 A new regional group of ARA UK & Ireland's Specialist Section, Community Archives and Heritage Group (CAHG) is being created: 'Community Archives and Heritage Groups - Scotland'.
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.
Find out more This year, Purton Cricket Club will be celebrating its 200th anniversary. It is said to be the oldest cricket club in Wiltshire. An early member was the famed E. H. Budd, the first man to score a century at Marylebone Cricket Club ground (`Lords`) in 1816.
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 Local Tennis Leagues Ltd was originally set up around a fledgling league on Highbury Fields, London in May 2005. Since then, many hundreds of people have taken part, made friends and improved their game. We caught up with Paul Cudmore and Charlotte Mills from LTL to tell us more about their sporting story.
Find out more Art Fund have launched their new ‘Respond and Reimagine’ grants, providing funding to help museums, galleries and cultural organisations respond ...
Find out more Our latest social media campaign #yoursportingstory was launched during the Covid-19 lockdown in support of our current project activity. Specifically, helping ...
Find out more In this podcast Russell Todd, Sporting Heritage CIC’s podcaster-in-residence, chats to his next door neighbour in Cardiff, Colin Morgan, about ...
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 ...
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Find out more Our new sector support webinar offer will launch at the end of May. Aiming to bring up to date advice and guidance to support your organisations and collections, the following webinars are now available to book.
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