7th April 201115th December 2023camogie, Folk, football, gaelic football, handball, hurling, museums, rounders, rugby, women Royal visitor for Irish sporting landmark? Speculation that the first state visit by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland will take in Croke Park prompted this […]
14th June 201028th September 2023baseball, cricket, museums English origins of a very American sport (Updated) A century ago, there was a concerted effort to prove that baseball originated in the United States. In response to an […]
22nd November 200928th September 2023curling, museums, winter Olympic sports Mapping historical curling places at the Royal Caledonian Curling Club While creating the map of sporting museums and collections, I was browsing around the website of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club when […]
1st November 200928th September 2023museums, rowing Chiswick: the first blue plaque for a British sportsman One of the speakers at the Rowing History Forum at the River & Rowing Museum in Henley on 31 October 2009 was […]
1st November 200928th September 2023museums, Olympics Our Sporting Life – a 2012 initiative from Britain’s sporting museums a search for the sporting memories, heroes, objects, photographs and experiences that have inspired the nation
