Category: Athletics

Posted by Katie Holmes | May 23, 2020 | Athletics, Gender and Sport | 0

Asserting the Rural and ‘The Truth about Wil...

Posted by John Bale | Oct 10, 2019 | Athletics, Cricket, Football, General, Podcasts | 0

In Leaps and Bounds Bertha Crowther: GB’s First Pe...

Posted by Margaret Roberts | Oct 5, 2019 | Athletics, Gender and Sport, Your Family's Playing Pasts | 0

Switching from Women’s Football to Cross-Country:
The History of Gruppo Sportivo Giovinezza [Milan, 1933-37]

by Marco Giani | Jul 2, 2020 | Archival Research, Athletics, Football, Gender and Sport, Olympics, Sport & Politics, Team Sports | 0

Some Playing Pasts readers may wonder what happened to the calciatrici of Gruppo Femminile...

When Ondina Knocked Over Two Hurdles:
The Italian Fiasco at the 1934 Women’s World Games in London

by Marco Giani | Jun 22, 2020 | Athletics, Gender and Sport, Sport & Politics | 0

A 1934 video by British Pathè entitled WOMEN’S WORLD GAMES – Competitors of 19 Nations...

The Clerk, the Engineer, and the Doctor:
Crewe, Sport, and the London and North Western Railway Company

by Liam Dyer | Jun 4, 2020 | Archival Research, Athletics, Sport & Leisure History | 0

With the digitalisation of archival materials, especially materials relating to genealogy such...

Pedestrian Six-day Races in Scotland 1878-1888

by Derek Martin | May 30, 2020 | Athletics, Gender and Sport, Leisure, Playing Pasts edited Volume 2020, Playing Pasts Publications | 0

Please cite this article as: Martin, D. Pedestrian Six-day Races in Scotland 1878-1888, In Day, D....

Jack Price and the 1908 Olympic Marathon

by Luke J Harris | May 26, 2020 | Athletics, Olympics, Playing Pasts edited Volume 2020, Playing Pasts Publications | 0

Please cite this article as: Harris, L. Jack Price and the 1908 Olympic Marathon, In Day, D. (ed),...

Milestones in Women’s Marathon History
– 1964 –
Dale Greig

by Katie Holmes | May 23, 2020 | Athletics, Gender and Sport | 0

For a woman to run a marathon in 1964 she had to be a rule breaker. Women worldwide were not...

‘That Prince of speed raisers’:
James Q. McPherson and Former Pedestrians as Association Football Trainers in the 1900s

by Alex Jackson | May 21, 2020 | Athletics, Pedestrianism edited Volume 2014, Playing Pasts Publications | 0

Please cite this article as: Jackson, A. ‘That Prince of speed raisers’: James Q. McPherson and...

The Pub and Pedestrianism in Victorian Bradford

by David Pendleton | May 20, 2020 | Athletics, Pedestrianism edited Volume 2014, Playing Pasts Publications | 0

Please cite this article as: Pendleton, D.I. The Pub and Pedestrianism in Victorian Bradford, In...

Nineteenth Century Foot Racing: The Tyneside Connection

by Archie Jenkins | May 19, 2020 | Athletics, Pedestrianism edited Volume 2014, Playing Pasts Publications | 0

Please cite this article as: Jenkins, A. Nineteenth Century Foot Racing: The Tyneside Connection,...

Preparing for Success in the Sheffield Handicaps 1845-1899

by Glenn Piper | May 18, 2020 | Athletics, Pedestrianism edited Volume 2014, Playing Pasts Publications | 0

Please cite this article as: Piper, G. Preparing for Success in the Sheffield Handicaps 1856-1899,...

James Searles and the Revival of the Barclay Match

by Derek Martin | May 16, 2020 | Athletics, Pedestrianism edited Volume 2014, Playing Pasts Publications | 0

Please cite this article as: Martin, D. James Searles and the Revival of the Barclay Match, In...

The Manchester Milers 1850-1870

by Samantha-Jayne Oldfield | May 15, 2020 | Athletics, Pedestrianism edited Volume 2014, Playing Pasts Publications | 0

Please cite this article as: Oldfield, S. J. The Manchester Milers 1850-1870, In Day, D. (ed),...

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