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The Turbulent Stories of Heroic Mitropa Cups
Part 4 ~ Tennis ~
For the previous parts of this series – Part 1 [Football] – Click HERE Part 2 [General...
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The North-West and Sport and Leisure History
This podcast from Prof Mike Huggins, from a collection of short papers on aspects of sport and...
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The Turbulent Stories of Heroic Mitropa Cups
(1927-1942)
Part 3 ~ Boxing
To read the first parts of this series –Â Click HERE for Part 1 and HERE for Part 2Â ...
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The Turbulent Stories of Heroic Mitropa Cups (1927-1942)
Part 2
For Part 1 of this series click HERE The successful football Mitropa tournaments strengthened the...
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Pantomime and the Bankruptcy of Captain Bainbridge.
This podcast from Dr Claire Robinson, from a collection of short papers on aspects of sport and...
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The Turbulent Stories of Heroic Mitropa Cups (1927-1942)
Part 1 ~ Football
This series of papers on The Mitropa Cup competitions by Gherardo Bonini are based on his...
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The Race for Doggett’s Coat and Badge
The ancient sport of rowing was initially included in the programme of events for the first...
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Asserting the Rural and ‘The Truth about Wilson’
This podcast from Prof John Bale, from a collection of short papers on aspects of sport and...
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John Henry “Rob” Derbyshire
Osborne Swimming Club and the 1900 Olympic Water Polo Competition
I recently visited Victoria Baths in Manchester, winner of the B.B.C. 2003 Restoration programme....
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In Leaps and Bounds
Bertha Crowther: GB’s First Pentathlon Champion
The campuses of Crewe+Alsager College of Education, part of ManMet University since 1992, have...
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Massaging the Amateur Ethos: British Professional Trainers at Stockholm in 1912.
This podcast, by Dave Day was delivered as part of a collection of papers on aspects of coaching...
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A Passion for Polo
 Not the glistening white spherical mint with the hole in the middle, but the game played on...
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