Category: Women in Sport
The Forgotten Pioneers:
International Women’s Football in the Interwar Period
Part 4
Read the previous articles in the series: Part 1 Click HERE , Part 2 Click HERE and Part 3 Click...
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The Forgotten Pioneers:
International Women’s Football in the Interwar Period
Part 3
Read the previous articles in the series: Part 1 Click HERE and Part 2 Click HERE The best...
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The Forgotten Pioneers:
International Women’s Football in the Interwar Period
Part 2
To read Part 1 Click HERE The 1922 Tours (1) 1922 saw two French teams touring England. French...
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The Forgotten Pioneers:
International Women’s Football in the Interwar Period
Part 1
Introduction The two decades between World War I and World War II were the first “international”...
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Synchronized Swimming at Blackpool: 125 Years Ago
With the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games having taken place in 2021, it is an opportune time to set the...
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Cloelia, Atalanta and Nausicaa
The Search for a Classical Sportswoman Role Model in 1930s’ Italy
This Playing Pasts article is the English version of a longer Italian article (2018), that can...
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The Relay Runners who joined the Resistance:
1930-1940s Italian Athletes
Lydia Bongiovanni & Elda Franco
Part 6
The author would like to express thanks to Maura Quiriconi for having shared the personal archive...
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The Relay Runners who joined the Resistance:
1930-1940s Italian Athletes
Lydia Bongiovanni & Elda Franco
Part 5
The author would like to express thanks to Maura Quiriconi for having shared the personal archive...
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The Relay Runners who joined the Resistance:
1930-1940s Italian Athletes
Lydia Bongiovanni & Elda Franco
Part 4
The author would like to express thanks to Maura Quiriconi for having shared the personal archive...
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The Games of the New Emerging Forces:
Indonesia 1963
Soekarno’s Olympic Attack A year before the Olympic Games of 1964 in Tokyo Indonesia hosts...
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All About That Skirt:
Women’s sportswear in 1920-1940s’ Fascist Italy
Part 2
To read Part 1 Click HERE To continue where we left Part 1 with the discussion regarding female...
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All About That Skirt:
Women’s sportswear in 1920-1940s’ Fascist Italy
Part 1
As Rachael Jefferson-Buchanan has pointed out just some days ago in her The Conversation article...
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