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29 May 2023

History Makers: The Red Roses

29 April 2023 saw the Red Roses play France in Twickenham Stadium’s first ‘stand-alone’ women’s rugby test-match. The day before, a special unveiling ceremony took place in the England Dressing Room...

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29 May 2023

History Makers: The Red Roses

29 April 2023 saw the Red Roses play France in Twickenham Stadium’s first ‘stand-alone’ women’s rugby test-match. The day before, a special unveiling ceremony took place in the England Dressing Room...

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24 April 2023

#FromTheVaults - Red Roses v France 2003

The 29th April 2023 will go down in history, as the Red Roses play their first stand-alone fixture at Twickenham Stadium. Twenty years on, we're looking back to their first fixture at the venue...

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17 April 2023

Meet the force behind the formation of Wasps Women

Sue Martineau, nee Bennett, played back row for Wasps, Loughborough, and England B, with only a broken arm preventing her from playing for the national team. Explore how this influential woman changed the rugby landscape in the 1980s...

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27 February 2023

Allez Les Bleus: Barrette Medal, 1928

The 1920s was an oasis for female participation in sport and physical activities in France. Along with the very popular women’s Olympics, established by Alice Milliat, women’s omni-sports clubs sprung up around the country...

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03 November 2022

Newport Ladies, 1917

While it was uncommon for women to play rugby union in the early twentieth century, some seized short opportunities afforded to them by the significant changes to society brought on by the First World War...

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27 October 2022

Contact Sport

Anna Shilonosova is a documentary photographer and a lens-based artist originally from Russia, currently living in the East End area of London. She has produced a photo book, ‘Contact Sport’, and will be giving an artist talk and presenting her project on October, 27 2022 in the Lord Nelson pub (1 Manchester road, E14 3BD) at 19:00.

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07 October 2022

The Rugby World Cup: In Her Own Words - 2017

Dublin and Belfast were the locations for the 2017 World Cup, but Ireland could not repeat their feat of three years earlier, getting knocked out in the pool stages...

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06 October 2022

The Rugby World Cup: In Her Own Words - 2014

In 2014, hosts France continued the format started four years earlier, with fantastic crowds attending games at Marcoussis before the knockout stages moved to the Stade Jean-Bouin in Paris...

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03 October 2022

The Rugby World Cup: In Her Own Words - 2010

The 2010 World Cup held at the Surrey Sports Park and at the Twickenham Stoop introduced a new format, with all the pool games being played in one location on back-to-back pitches...

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29 September 2022

The Rugby World Cup: In Her Own Words - 2006

Hosted in Edmonton, Canada, the 2006 women's Rugby World Cup was the first to be held outside of Europe...

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28 September 2022

The Rugby World Cup: In Her Own Words - 2002

The 2002 women's Rugby World Cup was held in Barcelona, and this time New Zealand travelled as clear favourites...

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26 September 2022

The Rugby World Cup: In Her Own Words - 1998

1998 saw the first IRB sanctioned Rugby World Cup, with the event held in the Netherlands after the late cancellation 4 years earlier...

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