Month: April 2020

A Brief History of British Public Parks before 1870

Posted by Nick Piercey | Apr 30, 2020 | Archival Research, History of Alexandra Park Manchester, Leisure, The Great Outdoors | 0

Introduction In 2020, Alexandra Park, in southern Manchester, celebrates 150 years since its...

Read More

“And then we were boycotted”
New discoveries about the birth of women’s football in Italy [1933]
Part 6

Posted by Marco Giani | Apr 27, 2020 | Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Team Sports, Women in Sport | 0

Part 6 tells the story of Brunilde Amodeo – PLEASE NOTE all of the images of Brunilde Amodeo...

Read More

Stoke City and the Millennium Stadium ‘South Stand Jinx’

Posted by Martyn Cooke | Apr 20, 2020 | British Society of Sports History [BSSH], Football, Team Sports | 0

Throughout contemporary society there are a wide variety of superstitions, routines and habits...

Read More

Early Women’s Football in Mid-Cheshire
Part 2
~The Interwar Years~

Posted by Margaret Roberts | Apr 17, 2020 | British Society of Sports History [BSSH], Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Team Sports, Women in Sport | 0

As was seen in Part 1 [Click HERE to read} of this series the women footballers of Mid-Cheshire...

Read More

The ‘Finest Spectacle in P.O.W. History’:
The 1952 ‘Inter-Camp Olympics’ and British Prisoners of War in the Korean War (1950-1953)

Posted by Grace Huxford | Apr 13, 2020 | Olympics, Podcasts | 0

This podcast from Grace Huxford, from a collection of short papers on aspects of sport and leisure...

Read More

1
2

Categories

Archives