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10 April 2017

Rugby Memorabilia - Not just for rugby enthusiasts…

Player interviews in programmes can reveal a rapid changing taste in entertainment, fashion and cars - how we now laugh at the selection of a Ford Granada as a players dream car! Changes in technology are demonstrated in programmes.

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10 April 2017

Rugby Memorabilia - Not just for rugby enthusiasts…

Player interviews in programmes can reveal a rapid changing taste in entertainment, fashion and cars - how we now laugh at the selection of a Ford Granada as a players dream car! Changes in technology are demonstrated in programmes.

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20 March 2017

Santa Clara v Stanford, 1916

The University of California had taken up rugby in 1906, along with Stanford University, California's top athletic and academic rival. It was to be the start of a great rugby rivalry. Both teams were strong.

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16 January 2017

How to research and write a club history by Keith Gregson

Writer and historian Keith Gregson uses his experiences in researching Sunderland Rugby Club's past to open a debate on writing rugby club histories.

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07 January 2017

Death of a Forward

The Tragic First World War tale of Sunderland Rugby Football Club's James Harry Edwards (1894 -1917) puts the First World War into sharp focus.

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07 December 2016

Special Exhibition celebrates 150 years of rugby in Yokohama

A new installation has opened in the World Rugby Museum highlighting the development of rugby in Yokohama and the history of rugby at the Yokohama Country and Athletic Club, now recognised to be the first football club in Asia.

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31 October 2016

How the city of Bradford helped shape the early history of Rugby Football

Ask a rugby enthusiast to name the traditional giants of English rugby and the chances are that Bradford would not come to mind. Yet immediately prior to the 1895 split, the Park Avenue club was considered alongside Newport and Blackheath as one of the leading sides in the British Isles.

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17 October 2016

The Gould Case

The following is an extract from 'One Among Many: the Story of Sunderland Rugby Football Club' by Keith Gregson.

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26 September 2016

Durham County Diamond Jubilee 1936

The following is an extract from 'One Among Many: the Story of Sunderland Rugby Football Club' by Keith Gregson. "Of the many stirring rugby events at Ashbrooke, none aroused greater interest than the match played 26 September 1936"

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08 May 2016

From the Deep Vaults...

James Corsan is currently working on a Harlequins Heritage project in connection with the forthcoming 150th anniversary of the founding of the club.

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23 April 2016

150 years of the Glasgow Accies...

Founded on 21st April, 1866 at a meeting held at the Glasgow Academy in Elmbank Street, the Academical Club played its first recorded football match, against West of Scotland FC, in January 1868 at Hamilton Crescent.

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10 April 2016

Young Americans by Stephen Cooper

Barely weeks after the first English Premiership rugby game played in New Jersey, USA by Saracens and London Irish, new evidence has emerged from a club's archives of early American rugby connections in England.

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05 April 2016

Back to School - the origins of football and rugby

There were at least seven schools playing their own versions of what was known as 'football' in the early years of the 19th century.

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