Category: Women in Sport
Conan Doyle’s Baseball Dream:
From the American Ballpark to the Chipping Norton Diamond.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was a high- profile champion of baseball in...
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The ‘Wonderful Man Fish in his Monster Plate-Glass Aquarium’
Part Two. The Imitators
To read Part 1 – Click HERE Inevitably, the success of Thomas Attwood’s aquatic...
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The ‘Wonderful Man Fish in his Monster Plate-Glass Aquarium’:
Part One. The Beckwiths and Thomas Attwood.
In April 1891, the following acrimonious exchange of letters took place in The Era, a weekly paper...
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The ‘Colditz Olympics’
The Great Escape!
Situated on a cliff overlooking a small East German town in the state of Saxony, Colditz Castle...
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‘The Prince and the Pumas’:
How a Russian aristocrat helped establish rugby in Argentina.
The British and Irish Lions are considering the possibility of a tour to Argentina to expand their...
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Too Hot to Handle:
The Bruising West Indies Tour of 1976.
It’s nearly 50 years since the hot summer of 1976. It was the warmest on record and to be alive...
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Bill Thomas:
The Professional Sports Coach as Servant in Twentieth Century Britain.
Part Three.
Read Part 1 HERE and Part 2 HERE In 1935, a Daily Mirror reporter observed that Bill...
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Bill Thomas:
The Professional Sports Coach as Servant in Twentieth Century Britain.
Part Two.
For Part One – Click HERE Frederick William (‘Bill’) George Thomas, born in Banbury,...
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Bill Thomas:
The Professional Sports Coach as Servant in Twentieth Century Britain
Part One
Abstract Traditional coaching structures came under pressure in Britain during the late nineteenth...
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The Sucker Punch:
The Tragic Story of the Two Welsh Boxers who Perished in the Titanic
On April 15th 1912, after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, the Royal Mail Ship...
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Alice Kell:
The Greatest Woman Footballer of All Time
Legendary Leader of the Original Dick Kerr Ladies FC Alice was the leader of the Dick Kerr Ladies...
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Pulling in the right direction:
Could Tug of War be heading back to the Olympics?
A team of tradesmen and farmers from Staffordshire has recently ( March 2026) won the gold medal...
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