Historical Hockey Stories
Discover fascinating, diverse stories from across the history of our great game.
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Our collections and research activity means we are constantly uncovering fascinating stories from across hockey’s rich British and international history. Explore them below.
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Victorian Women Dressed for Sport
From calisthenics to swimming and from skating to tennis, women of the nineteenth century had...
AWRE Hockey Club: Explosive Hockey Played in 1950s Berkshire
Last weekend saw the release of the much-anticipated biographical film Oppenheimer, which tells...
An ‘Anglo-Welsh’ Hockey Honours Cap
A recent addition to our ever-increasing collection at THM, a beautiful Welsh honours cap,...
A postcard home … to France in 1906
Whilst looking at this picture, consider that the first ladies’ hockey in England –...
Sikhs, Lord’s and Hockey
The following article was written and researched by former trustee of The Hockey Museum Dil Bahra...
The Hockey Story of Shalford Church’s Ecclesiastical Cloth is not Fabricated
The altar at St Mary’s Chruch, Shalford in Surrey.Photographs courtesy of St...
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