Category: Winter Sports
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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Flipping through Grazia’s Photo Albums:
Flashbacks from the Career of a 1940s-1950s Italian Figure Ice Skating Champion
Part 5
All images are taken from Archivio personale Giovanna Boccalini Barcellona (except where noted),...
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“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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The Most International of Great Skiers: Hans Nogler
Hans Nogler might be defined as an ‘uncrowned king’ of alpine skiing. He never won a...
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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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Camaraderie and Rivalry between the Axis Super-powers.
The World Skiing Championships of Cortina in 1941
The Congress of the International Ski Federation (FIS) of Oslo in March 1946 downgraded the World...
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Toni, Lotte, Anna and Maria.
Four Forgotten Heroines of Winter Sport.
The best Italian and South Tyrolean literature on winter sports does not mention the great history...
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“And then we were boycotted”
New discoveries about the birth of women’s football in Italy [1933]
Part 4
For the earlier parts of this series see: Part 1 – bit.ly/2NBMzZg Part 2 – ...
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The Turbulent Stories of Heroic Mitropa Cups (1927-1942)
Part 2
For Part 1 of this series click HERE The successful football Mitropa tournaments strengthened the...
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Flipping through Grazia’s Photo Albums:
Flashbacks from the Career of a 1940s-1950s Italian Figure Ice Skating Champion
Part 4
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL THE IMAGES IN THIS SERIES ARE THE COPYRIGHT OF MARCO GIANI AND ARE NOT TO BE...
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Flipping through Grazia’s photo albums:
Flashbacks from the career of a 1940s-1950s Italian figure skating champion
Part 3
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL THE IMAGES IN THIS SERIES ARE THE COPYRIGHT OF MARCO GIANI AND ARE NOT TO BE...
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