On this Week – 21st August
21st-On this day in 1878 Middlesex and Surrey cricketer Edward Pooley completed a then first-class...
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Posted by Margaret Roberts | Aug 21, 2017 | This Week in Sport & Leisure History | 0
21st-On this day in 1878 Middlesex and Surrey cricketer Edward Pooley completed a then first-class...
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The Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) first muted the idea of an indoor athletics competition in...
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14th- American tennis player Frederick Alexander was born in 1880. He won the singles title at...
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7th-Today in 1711 Queen Anne attended the Ascot race meeting, thus earning it the prefix ‘Royal’....
Read MorePosted by Margaret Roberts | Aug 3, 2017 | British Society of Sports History [BSSH], Swimming & Diving, Women in Sport, Your Family's Playing Pasts | 0
While Part 1 of this paper [which can be read HERE] used documentary evidence gleaned from...
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