Join Sporting Heritage’s Fran Stovold to explore the role and value of sporting material and how we can use it ...
Find out more Join Sporting Heritage’s Fran Stovold and Sarah Priestley, Curator at Watford Museum, as they discuss approaches to working with football ...
Find out more This exhibition presents photographs and stories of some of the amazing women and girls, past and present, with a connection to women’s football in the city.
Find out more Sporting Heritage are looking to develop their research activity
Find out more In this podcast episode, we chat with former Sheffield Hallam United player Pauline Braham to reflect on her playing career in the 1980s as a black woman, the racism she faced in football, as well as the positive experiences and memories of the game she continues to love today.
Find out more Nigel Huddleston, Minister for Sport, outlined that sporting heritage is central to the identity of Northern culture and communities, in ...
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 In this episode, Rhian Lilley, Director of Development at Rounders England, and Derek Peaple, education lead at Sporting Heritage, explain how they collaborated on educational resources that promote the heritage, accessibility and values of rounders.
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 Dr Fiona Skillen joins us to discuss her research into the history of women's football, the barriers faced by the early female players, and how insights from the past have shaped and can help us to understand the development of the contemporary game.
Find out more Dr Gary James discusses the challenges and barriers that are still faced by women involved in football, his current work in Trafford as part of the UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 heritage activity, and his thoughts on the likely legacy of the tournament.
Find out more We talk to Ruth Johnson; Women & Girls Football Development Worker at Football Unites Racism Divides (FURD). Ruth provides an insight into the work of FURD, how it brings people together, through football, within the city of Sheffield, and discusses her research into the history of the women's game.
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 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 A series of FREE webinars in support of those holding collections, or developing collections related to women's football. Further events coming in September...Book your place now!
Find out more Watch some of the highlights from the Inaugural Sporting Heritage Awards!
Find out more There are many types of activity that you can host on National Sporting Heritage Day and the event you hold will depend on the type of organisation you are, your capacity, your audience and what you want to achieve.
Find out more Find out how to capture and evaluate your NSHD activities.
Find out more This year we want more schools than ever to be part of our flagship event, National Sporting Heritage Day, which takes place on 30th September.
Find out more As part of February’s Art of Sporting Heritage Month, Russell Todd from Expo’r Wal Goch, the Welsh football social enterprise, was joined by guests to discuss the significance of football and other sports in the fiction of Rhondda writer Ron Berry (1920-1997).
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 This flexible resource for Key Stage 2 or 3 uses the inspiration of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games to pose students a ’20-22’ Challenge’ to design a 'Museum Exhibition’
Find out more Sporting Heritage is delighted to once again team up with The Events Room in this exclusive Ashes Cricket Lunch with Sir Ian Botham OBE. Book your tickets now!
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