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Industrial Heritage
Part 2
Public Baths Providing Health, Hygiene, and Exercise
To read Part 1 of this series – Cotton Lancashire’s Victorian Swimming Baths –...
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Hockey’s Religious Foundations
Part 2
Nonconformists Lead Hockey’s Downward Social Diffusion
To read Part one of Hockey’s Religious Foundations: The Anglican Clergy turn a Suburban Game...
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Industrial Heritage
Part 1:
Cotton Lancashire’s Victorian Swimming Baths
The “Penny Scrub” is still evoking notions of civic pride in the industrial heritage of Victorian...
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Hockey’s Religious Foundations:
Part 1
The Anglican Clergy turn a Suburban Game into a National Sport
The establishment of the Hockey Association (HA) in 1886 was a timely event as the drift away from...
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‘The Pioneer of Ladies Football in Ireland:’
A brief history of Mrs Scott
Part Two
To read Part One of this article please click HERE Diana Scott’s involvement in women’s football...
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‘The Pioneer of Ladies Football in Ireland:’
A brief history of Mrs Scott
Part One
On 29 March 1921, Mrs Walter Scott became one of the first female football administrators to be...
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Reviewing the Sports Department of the 1913 World’s Fair:
The Roots of the Tour of Flanders.
In the annals of cycling history we read that the first Tour of Flanders in 1913 was organized by...
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ONCE UPON A TIME:
WHEN VIENNA WAS THE CITY OF THE STRONGEST MEN
Part 2
To read Part 1 – click HERE 1923 was a crucial year for Austrian weightlifting and...
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When Hull got Hooked on Hockey:
East Yorkshire’s Edwardian Sporting Boom
Modern hockey begins in 1886 with the second attempt to form a national Hockey Association (HA) by...
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ONCE UPON A TIME:
WHEN VIENNA WAS THE CITY OF THE STRONGEST MEN
Part 1
During the nineteenth century, which was marked by the rise of sport as a social phenomenon,...
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The relay runners who joined the Resistance:
1930s-1940s Italian athletes Lydia Bongiovanni and Elda Franco
Part 3
The author would like to express thanks to Levio Bottazzi, Maura Quiriconi and Jole Romano...
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BARTITSU:
The Art of Self-defence
Part 2
Part 1 can be read HERE In 1913, the Liberal government led by Herbert Asquith, 1st Earl...
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