Frank Soo: English football’s first non-Caucasian international
Viv Anderson is widely perceived to have been the first non-Caucasian or ‘man of colour’ to...
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Author: Martyn Cooke
When Buffalo Bill and the American ‘Wild West’ came to The Potteries in 1891
On Sunday 16th August 1891 three large, specially commissioned trains rolled into the station at...
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The Sentinel Cup: 125 Continuous Years of Junior Football in North Staffordshire
During the Victorian era an inextricable link developed in Britain between sport and the press....
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The Burnden Park Stadium Disaster: British Football’s Forgotten Tragedy
Association Football, Stadium Disaster, Burnden Park, Hughes Report As presented at the SpLeisH...
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Sport and the press during the Victorian era
Throughout the nineteenth century, Britain experienced a period of dramatic societal change where...
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