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Frogs versus Human Machines: The English swimming tour in Italy (1901)
The Life Saving Society (LSS) founded in 1891, promoted resuscitation, rescue techniques, and...
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“And then we were boycotted”
New discoveries about the birth of women’s football in Italy [1933]
Part 5
To read the previous 4 parts of this series – please click on the following links Part 1...
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Revisiting Interwar Ayresome Park a century on and the legend of George Camsell: two promotions, a relegation and Boro’s greatest goalscorer
As part of new research project marking the 25th anniversary since Middlesbrough’s last season at...
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Fodens Ladies Abroad
Fodens Ladies Football Club often went on tours and by May 1979 they had been on six trips abroad,...
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Fodens Ladies Football Club
Fodens[1] Ladies, formed at a lorry manufacturing plant in Sandbach, Cheshire, contributed to a...
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The Socialist Red Jersey Marches On!
In the official record books, it is written that the cycling Tour of Austria, today raced in six...
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From Ayresome Park to the Riverside with Gary Pallister
As we mark 25 years since Boro’s final season at Ayresome Park, Manchester Metropolitan University...
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Desportification and Deinstitutionalization of Sports and Leisure Activities in Occupied Belgium During The Great War
1914 started prosperously for the Belgian sporting world. The years before sporting life had...
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The Arcane World of Working-class Canary Breeding in Victorian Britain
When I was a boy, quite a few coal miners in the pit rows of County Durham kept canaries. Canaries...
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Liberty Fields: Pioneers of Asian Women’s Rugby
In early November 2019, in the land renowned for its rising sun, it set softly over the Yokohama...
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Carlo Parola: The Man on the Panini Stickers
In the century of image and mass sports, it was not a matter of “if”, but rather “when”, somebody...
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Frank Crozier (1882 – ?) A Jamaican Wrestling Champion in Spain
The first decades of the twentieth century were not the best moment in history to devote your life...
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