Category: Athletics
Athletics in the Late Nineteenth Century and the Conflict between the North and the South
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Martha Jacob
First Female Foreign Coach in the UK
The Odyssey of an Uprooted Athlete and Physical Education Teacher through Europe.
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Gretel Bergmann
~An International Olympic Contender~
The ‘Bitter Awakening from the Wonderful Dream’ of Attending the Olympic Games
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Sports Migration during National Socialism:
Reasons and Research on the Emigration of Jewish Athletes from Germany after 1933
“Thousands have emigrated from our ranks in recent years, some have already become champions in a...
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Making Sports Visible: Italian Sports Logos from Milan Archivio di Stato
PLEASE NOTEÂ ~ All images are taken from: Milano, Archivio di Stato di Milano, Prefettura di...
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The Eternal Seconds of Italian Women’s Athletics:
The History of Gruppo Sportivo La Filotecnica [Milan, 1935-1943]
The author would like to express thanks to Lyana Calvesi for the images from Archivio personale...
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Switching from Women’s Football to Cross-Country:
The History of Gruppo Sportivo Giovinezza [Milan, 1933-37]
Some Playing Pasts readers may wonder what happened to the calciatrici of Gruppo Femminile...
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When Ondina Knocked Over Two Hurdles:
The Italian Fiasco at the 1934 Women’s World Games in London
A 1934 video by British Pathè entitled WOMEN’S WORLD GAMES – Competitors of 19 Nations...
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The Clerk, the Engineer, and the Doctor:
Crewe, Sport, and the London and North Western Railway Company
With the digitalisation of archival materials, especially materials relating to genealogy such...
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Pedestrian Six-day Races in Scotland 1878-1888
Please cite this article as: Martin, D. Pedestrian Six-day Races in Scotland 1878-1888, In Day, D....
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Jack Price and the 1908 Olympic Marathon
Please cite this article as: Harris, L. Jack Price and the 1908 Olympic Marathon, In Day, D. (ed),...
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Milestones in Women’s Marathon History
– 1964 –
Dale Greig
For a woman to run a marathon in 1964 she had to be a rule breaker. Women worldwide were not...
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