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I'm moving across to where the skies are blue
Pop along and follow at - bsky.app/profile/playingpastβ¦
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The story of the Bradford Rifles and the impact of the volunteer militia on the development of (rugby) football in the district in the nineteenth century. Told on VINCIT: bradfordsporthistory.com/201β¦β¦
@Playing_Pasts @sportinghistory @collinstony @_philmcgowan @wrugbymuseum
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#LilyParr One of my 2 Articles on @Playing_Pasts telling the true story of my Granny's old teammate + friend @footballandwar @justaballgame @sportinghistory
@DrDKilpatrick @100BluePlaques
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New today on
@Playing_Pasts
'Rusty' The Remarkable Life of a Β βWallabyβ who became a 'Lion' by Bill Williams
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#RugbyUnion
#RugbyKE
@Wil94831317Bill
@BritSportHisSoc
New today on @Playing_Pasts
Parallel lives:
Gilbert and Gustav,
Two #Cotswold Lads Destined for Greatness
by @Wil94831317Bill
Link to read π bit.ly/3FB9UWj
#Cricket
@BritSportHisSoc
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Fullback #LilyParr Debut for Dick Kerr Ladies Aged 15 in Sep 1920 after 1 Game for St Helens @footballandwar @Playing_Pasts
@100BluePlaques
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New today on @Playing_Pasts
Part 12 of Marco Giani's lavishly illustrated series of articles
And then we were boycotted
New Discoveries about the Birth of Women's Football in Italy [1933]
Link to read π bit.ly/3FgQjut
#WomensFootball
#Football
#WomenInSport
#Women
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CYCLING PASTS: a new blog on the history of early #cycling and cycling competitions (1860-1920) with articles in π³π±|π¬π§.
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#sportshistory
#cyclinghistory
@BritSportHisSoc @BramConstandt @SportinHistory1 @sportinghistory @Playing_Pasts @BritishCycling
New on @Playing_Pasts
βSoccerβ:
Americanism or a Thoroughly British Invention?
by @Wil94831317Bill
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#Football
#Soccer
#GridIron
@BritSportHisSoc
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Violette Gourard-Morris - By a country mile the most contoversial woman footballer of all time... Here depicted in 1922 leading a French tour against Dick Kerr Ladies + Hey's Brewery Bradford - Executed by Maquis at end of WW2 @BreweryHeys @Playing_Pasts @footballandwar
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This is history! Hannah Cain and Carrie Jones fire Wales to Euro 2025 nation.cymru/sport/this-is-hβ¦
Fantastic ππ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώπ
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2019 - Finding astonishing photos of #MollySeaton #SadieSmith led to so much @FionaSkillen @R_McBrearty @StJoesBelfast @vivienne7 @JulieMcNeill1 @eddireader @derryjournal @justaballgame @PhysCstudy
@FinnClodagh @footballandwar
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News just in - Margaret, the @Playing_Pasts editor has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Congratulations and well deserved
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Great detective work by Bill Williams and Andrew Taylor to discover a fascinating part of #BritishBaseball history that involves multiple HOFers, the Giants-White Sox World Tour, and King George V, all set in #ChippingNorton!
New on @Playing_Pasts
The Tale of the βLouisville Sluggerβ
How a Baseball Bat made in Kentucky, found its way To Chipping Norton
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#Baseball
@BritSportHisSoc
#ChippingNorton
New on @Playing_Pasts
The Tale of the βLouisville Sluggerβ
How a Baseball Bat made in Kentucky, found its way To Chipping Norton
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#Baseball
@BritSportHisSoc
#ChippingNorton
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A short thread about the extraordinary sporting career of Max Woosnam, who was born in Liverpool (and captained the @England national football team), but had very close - and lasting - connections with Mid Walesβ¦ π§΅
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A game fit for heroes, the rebirth of Bradford RFC in 1919 by @jpdewhirst on VINCIT, the online journal of Bradford Sport History: bradfordsporthistory.com/201β¦ @Playing_Pasts @sportinghistory @yorkshire_rfu @collinstony @PJWOlicana @_philmcgowan @wrugbymuseum
New today on @Playing_Pasts
Part 2 of
An Englishman Abroad: Prof Christopher Butterworth
by @natationist
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#Swimming
@SwimmingCanada
@BritSportHisSoc
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100 years ago, Cecil Griffiths, a gold medalist from Neath, was banned for life from the Olympics for unknowingly accepting a prize as a teen. His story reminds us of the strict rules athletes once faced. Dive into more Welsh sports stories @Playing_Pasts #BlackHistoryMonth
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Sterling Ladies FC - "The Dagenham Invincibles" of WW1 - Unbeaten over 2 Seasons - 34 Wins + 2 Draws - GREATEST team of WW1 @Playing_Pasts @PrestonPlayhous @blogpreston
@footballandwar @justaballgame
@InvincibleBooks @invincibles1881 Feb in #Preston
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