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Events and activities NSHD2021
https://youtu.be/G5DqSX-UejU Last September a fantastic range of events and activity happened across the UK for National Sporting Heritage Day 2021. Find out more about some of the activities below. West Boathouse Project, Glasgow – Play Like a Lassie The West Boathouse Project in Glasgow worked in partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University to run the Play Like A Lassie project, a community project to increase representation and knowledge of...
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Award Categories
There are eight different award categories for you to nominate a relevant organisation or individual for: Sports Club and National Governing Body Sporting Heritage Award Museums/Archives Sporting Heritage Award Schools Sporting Heritage Award Community Sporting Heritage Award Celebrating Sporting Heritage Diversity Award Recognising Sporting Heritage Volunteer/s Award Sporting Heritage Research Award Sporting Heritage Moment/Event of the Year Her...
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Stoolball: ‘What Ball?’ History of the traditional, rural women’s sport.
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. “Stoolball is a traditional striking and fielding sport very similar in principle to cricket and played mostly by women in the South-East of England. In its original form, it was played by defending a simpl...
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Case Studies - National Sporting Heritage Day
Exhibition, open day or community event Exhibitions that bring in objects, archives, images, film and stories about sport are a great way to showcase a sporting theme, sport, sports person, or local sporting tradition. They’re also a perfect way to highlight the development of local sports clubs. They don’t have to be grand displays in museum settings (although that’s great!). They can be one off displays which last for a weekend and are held in...
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#NSHD2018 Community Grant Projects
Thanks to the brilliant support of Art Fund, we were able to offer organisations and community groups the opportunity to access funding as part of National Sporting Heritage Day 2018. This programme of activity supported increased engagement with local sporting heritage collections which tell the story and stories of sporting activity, heroes, and endeavour. Organisations across the UK took part in events, projects and activities which helped rai...
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My year as an illustrator in residence - Jessica Hartshorn
As I sit in my studio creating the final Sporting Heritage resource for the Hidden histories Illustrated project, I begin to reflect on the past year. It has been the first long term residency for me since becoming a freelancer two and half years ago and I feel extremely privileged to have had such a positive experience. In October 2020, the funding for The Hidden Histories Illustrated project was granted by Arts Council and I set to work in part...
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Press Release: Consultation opens to support the sporting heritage of Wales
A strategic framework to ensure the ongoing support, protection, and engagement of the sporting heritage of Wales has opened for consultation. The Framework has been funded by the Welsh Government and was developed by a Specialist Panel for the Sporting Heritage of Wales. The panel launched in April 2020 and includes a range of sporting heritage specialists. The panel conducted targeted audience research and engagement activities across the sport...
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Women in Civil Service Sport
Next year, the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC) will celebrate its centenary. Founded on 4 November 1921, the CSSC would rise to become the most extensive and powerful sporting organisation in Great Britain, its beating heart the famous Chiswick Sports Ground in West London, opened in 1926. Initially, the CSSC’s main protagonists paid little heed to gender equality on or off the playing field. However, women were well-represented at the CSSC’s...
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Judging the Awards
Our Sporting Heritage Awards judging panel will decide the winners based on the details and evidence demonstrated. Our panel come from across the fields of sport and heritage and we are delighted to have them working with us on this amazing programme. Eilish McGuinness Eilish has worked in heritage all her professional life and has extensive experience across the sector and the breadth of the UK’s heritage. She joined the National Lottery Heritag...
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What if we looked at neurodiversity and museums differently?
It’s taken a long to get to a stage where there’s time to write a blog about what we do! Demand and capacity have meant that we’ve been hamster-wheeling for the last couple of years, but with such a fab team on board, I’m hoping to make regular space to share what we’re up to, and ask for your comments, through this blog! Each blog will focus on different aspects of our work – hope it’s interesting and of use! I’m going to start with a new projec...
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Introducing Expo’r Wal Goch
What is it about following your football team? There’s the friendship and the craic to start with. Following Wales too brings us together, but as a nation, and on my travels I’ve made friends from Fflint to Ferndale. As I shout my support for club or country, at home and away, I feel part of a community. I love all aspects of the game and I know that a lot of good work goes on at clubs off the pitch too – the volunteering, walking football for th...
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Our Directors
Our Directors lead the direction and strategy of the organisation and represent a range of different knowledge specialisms: Dr Justine Reilly Justine is our Founding Director. She set up Sporting Heritage in 2012 after completing a PhD investigating Sport, Museums and Cultural Policy and recognising a gap in support and advocacy for the sector. With a degree in History and Archaeology and MA in History, Film and TV, Justine began her career worki...
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Join our team!
As part of our current development activity, we’re looking for some new team members! Sporting Heritage is the Subject Specialist Network for sporting collections in the UK. We work to ensure that there is support for those working with these collections to better understand, collect, share, research, and celebrate the vibrant collections and stories which exist. As a relatively new organisation, we are constantly developing activity to better un...
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The Hockey Museum
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Ron Berry and the Art of Sports Writing
So Long, Hector Bebb is a 1970 novel by late Rhondda author Ron Berry (1920-1997). It focuses on the travails of the titular Cymmer boxer Hector and is a dark, visceral account of post-war working class valleys life as much as an account of the boxing industry. After being sanctioned for unfortunately killing an opponent in a bout, Bebb eventually returns to the ring but his professional rehabilitation is undermined when a love rival dies at Bebb...
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Helen Richardson-Walsh OLY MBE
“Without the dedication and commitment of all that have gone before us, the opportunities as we know them today, would simply not exist. Our heritage shapes our future, and that’s why the work of Sporting Heritage is so significant on many levels. Unfortunately at the moment the history of hockey is relatively unknown with little recorded, so to have the chance to know our history, to hear stories of the past and to understand where we all sit wi...
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The Sporting Heritage of Disability and Women's Sports
Programme Objectives Over the next three years, we will be working hard to deliver a project which: Has a focus on, but is not limited to, documenting and understanding the sporting heritage of women’s sport and disability sport; Supports NGBS and the clubs they work with to develop the knowledge and skills to collect, preserve, store, and share their heritage; Provides a collections map of heritage held by governing bodies of sport, their clubs,...
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Watford Museum
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Hidden Histories Illustrated Project
What is the project about? Hidden History Illustrated is a programme of 8 online informal education resources, activities, quizzes and games created and distributed over 12 months. The content of the resources will be created in response to the fascinating untold stories of women in sport, disability in sport and unusual objects of 50 sporting museums. Sporting Heritage will use its special knowledge and profile to digitally host, co-ordinate and...
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MCC Museum and Library
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The Yorkshire County Cricket Club Official Museum
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"What time's kick off?"
Gayle Rogers shares her work and thoughts ahead of her exhibition ‘Who’s That Dying On The Runway?’ (available throughout February 2022 at the Workers Gallery, Ynyshir, South Wales). When the pandemic hit, I re-evaluated my research goals and where my art practice should go. Unable to work and run my art gallery, I began focusing on developing my digital and narrative drawing skills, whilst simultaneously writing a chapter for ‘Football and Popul...
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National Basketball Heritage Centre
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