Category: General
Mike Collins: from Via Tevere to the Moon
The newsreel “Radar” number 311 of October 1969, shown in cinemas across Italy rolls:-...
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The Grand National Treasure
Historic accounts suggest it was the Romans who first brought the thrill of horse racing to our...
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“Creatine is Cheating No Matter How You Look at It”
Moral Panics and Irish Supplements in the New Millennium
For Irish sport lovers in the early 2000s it appeared that a new, and potentially dangerous, drug...
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Not Like it’s 1999
When Does History Start? Mark Rowe Asks.
Secrets of the Press: Journalists on Journalism, edited by Stephen Glover, only dates from 1999,...
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Parents are Important Too!
These days a great many children regularly engage in some form of sporting activity. And although...
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Champion Wrestler Slain – The Life and Death of Uzile Prickett, America’s First Professional Wrestler
On June 15, 1868 a group of disgruntled fans shot and murdered the United States wrestling...
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Sport in Tudor Times (Part 2)
This article follows on from Part one – see https://goo.gl/bMHwKQ to read it. Bowls...
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Sport in Tudor Times (Part 1)
The powerful Tudor dynasty reigned from 1485 until 1603. In his prime Henry VIII was perhaps the...
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When Buffalo Bill and the American ‘Wild West’ came to The Potteries in 1891
On Sunday 16th August 1891 three large, specially commissioned trains rolled into the station at...
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People’s champion or violent bank robbing crook?
William Snook was one the best runners in the country – but this popular sporting hero had a very...
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When the Ryder Cup came to Moortown, Leeds
The first official Ryder Cup match to be held on British soil took place on 26 and 27 April 1929...
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All historians are now living in the digital age
Horseracing research 1998 and 2018 compared: the shift to digital history All historians...
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