Category: Playing Pasts: edited Volume 2020
JC Masterman: From the MCC to MI5
J.C. Masterman is not a name that is perhaps very widely known, despite the fact that in the early...
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Keeping it in the Family:
The Story of a Remarkable Cheltenham Sporting Dynasty and its Role in the Development of Women’s Sport in the UK
It is 85 years since Margaret Eyre (nee Lidderdale) became one of the first female professional...
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PATRIOT GAMES:
THE REMARKABLE STORY OF OXFORDSHIRE’S JOHN SMITH AND HIS NFL ODYSSEY.
The world of rugby union was shocked earlier this month with the announcement that Wales’ Louis...
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Lily Parr:
St Helens Ladies FC Legend
St Helens Ladies FC + Lily Parr Much of what is known and written about early women’s football is...
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Carrying the torch of Italian women’s football
Tales from an interview with Natalina Ceraso Levati
On 23rd of June, 2022 I had the chance to interview Natalina Ceraso (born in 1944), daughter of ...
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Shining a Light on Arthur!
A New Film Explores the Legacy of the World’s First Black Professional Footballer
Arthur ‘Kwame’ Wharton is perhaps not a name that is as renowned as it should be in the history...
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The Catalyst: Forty years since Mark Brown became Wales’ first black Rugby Union international
When Wales play Argentina in their RWC 2023 Quarter Final on Saturday 14th October in Marseille...
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DENIED!
Welshman, Cuthbert Taylor and the abolition of Boxing’s ‘Colour Bar!’
This year ( 2023), will mark 75 years since the ‘Colour Bar’ in British boxing was...
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Once Upon a Time in the West Of Wales:
How a Game Invented in an English Public School became a National Obsession
When Wales take to the field in Bordeaux on Sunday 10th September, in their opening match of the...
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MOB RULES!
The Bourton River Match and other forms of ‘Mob Football’ still played in the UK today
On August Bank Holiday Monday each year at around 4pm, the usually calm River Windrush , which...
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Sisters with Drive:
Early Women Golf Coaches and Professionals
Towards the end of the long nineteenth century there was an expansion in leisure pursuits for...
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THE PRINCE OF PIONEERS: 90 YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF K.S. RANJITSINHJI
The period 1890-1914 has long been referred to as ‘Cricket’s Golden Age’ with the formidable...
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