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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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Community Grant Projects 2018
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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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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National Sporting Heritage Day - Get involved
Taking part in the National Sporting Heritage Day couldn’t be easier. Here are just some of the ways you could get involved. Please let us know about any events you’re planning in connection with National Sporting Heritage Day. Exhibitions 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 h...
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The Hockey Museum
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The Yorkshire County Cricket Club Official Museum
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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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British Golf Museum
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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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Tom Wills - From Rugby School to Australian Sporting Pioneer
Tom Wills, educated at Rugby School, Warwickshire, was an Australian sporting genius. He created Australia’s national code of football; and was the central figure in Australia’s most compelling cricket story. Born in Australia in 1835, Tom Wills was descended from convicts. At the age of 14 his father despatched him to Rugby School, which he attended between 1850 and 1855. He wrote homesick letters to Australia when he saw ice for the first time,...
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National Rink Hockey
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'Culture Recovery Fund' Success and Dame Sarah Storey to Launch 2020 Conference
Double celebrations for Sporting Heritage this week as first we secured funding as part of the government’s #HereforCulture campaign, and we are also delighted to announce World and Paralympic champion, Dame Sarah Storey DBE as the keynote speaker for this month’s Sporting Heritage conference. The Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage has awarded Sporting Heritage £97,000 to support us in our work following the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. We wo...
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Wolverhampton City Archives
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National Sporting Heritage Day Events 2018
Across the country, organisations and our sporting heritage ambassadors celebrated and shared their collections and memories on National Sporting Heritage Day 2018. Here’s a sample of how some venues got involved: The Hockey Museum, Woking extended the museum outside for one day only! With international objects, archives and artefacts on hand as well as an array of THMs amazing collection, the event shared the heritage of hockey and supported the...
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Five towns and cities shortlisted for UK City of Culture 2021
Coventry, Paisley, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland and Swansea have been shortlisted to host UK City of Culture 2021, Minister for Arts, Heritage and Tourism, John Glen announced today. The announcement comes following a meeting of the independent advisory panel chaired by Phil Redmond. Of the eleven towns and cities that registered bids for UK City of Culture 2021, five have been shortlisted for the prestigious award. In December 2017, either Coventr...
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Heritage Quay
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Russell Todd - The voice of our Podcast
My name is Russell Todd, Sporting Heritage CIC’s podcaster-in-residence. If you have been at any of the Sporting Heritage summits in Bradford, Liverpool or my home city of Cardiff, then you may have noticed me – I was the one lurking with assorted microphones and wires! The Bradford summit in 2017 was my first contact with Sporting Heritage CIC and I really enjoyed the breadth of sport covered and the range of perspectives on those sports that co...
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Richard Thomas: Policeman, Sportsman, Soldier.
Sport has played a huge part in the history of South Wales Police and its predecessor forces. Across three centuries, many officers and staff from south Wales forces have represented Wales and other nations on the international sporting stage. Since the nineteenth century one sport in particular has been strongly associated with the police forces of south Wales. That sport, of course, is rugby. Between 1896 and 1995, 64 officers from south Wales...
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Through the Hoops: Croquet at Wimbledon
The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (AELTC) celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2018. Did you know that croquet, not tennis, was the first sport to grace Wimbledon’s lawns? It remained the only sport played at the Club until tennis was introduced at the Club seven years after it was founded. THROUGH THE HOOPS: CROQUET AT WIMBLEDON explores the impact that the Club has had on development of the modern game of croquet. The All England Croque...
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Sheffield City Archives
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