Category: Leisure
Mini-Golf: Seaside Fun or Serious Sport? Part 1
Although 1867 was not a particularly historical year, it did mark the conclusion of almost thirty...
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#NSM2020 – Geoffrey and Ida’s Secret Romance
To read Part 1 of this series of papers please click HERE , for Part 2 Click HERE and for Part 3...
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#NSM2020 – Music in wartime
To read Part 1 of this series of papers please click HERE and for Part 2 Click HERE The...
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#NSM2020 – Early Days & Memorable Names
To read Part 1 of this series of papers please click HERE In the second article in the...
Read More![“And then we were Boycotted”<br>New Discoveries about the Birth of Women’s Football in Italy [1933] <br> Part 7](https://www.playingpasts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Marco-Part-7-Boycotted-627x376.jpg)
“And then we were Boycotted”
New Discoveries about the Birth of Women’s Football in Italy [1933]
Part 7
The author would like to express thanks to Luigi and Francesco Ferrari for the images (taken from...
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#NSM2020 – The Centenary of the Northern School of Music
For the Royal Northern College of Music Archives, there was to be one very specific celebration in...
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Leisure in Alexandra Park ~ The Gymnasia ~
Introduction Perhaps, more than any other aspect of the Alexandra Park, the gymnasia represented...
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Leisure in Alexandra Park:
The Ornamental Lake, Skating, and Fishing
Introduction An Ornamental Lake was an integral part of the designs for the new Alexandra Park...
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Making Sports Visible: Italian Sports Logos from Milan Archivio di Stato
PLEASE NOTE ~ All images are taken from: Milano, Archivio di Stato di Milano, Prefettura di...
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Leisure in Alexandra Park
~ Tennis ~
Introduction Although tennis was absent in the 1870s, it quickly became one of the park’s most...
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Leisure in Alexandra Park ~ Bowling and The Bowling Green
Introduction The Alexandra Park Bowling Green, opened in 1871, was the site of a great deal of...
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Barbara Cartland’s Sporting Exploits Revisited
Barbara Cartland: queen of the romantic novel with a passion for pink and traditional values, or a...
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