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25 April 2022

#FromTheVaults - Navy badge, 1922

As the rugby teams of the British Army and the Royal Navy prepare for their return to Twickenham this coming weekend, we have decided to highlight this one-hundred-year-old cloth badge which was worn by Navy scrum-half Cecil Kershaw...

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25 April 2022

#FromTheVaults - Navy badge, 1922

As the rugby teams of the British Army and the Royal Navy prepare for their return to Twickenham this coming weekend, we have decided to highlight this one-hundred-year-old cloth badge which was worn by Navy scrum-half Cecil Kershaw...

22 April 2022

The greatest upset in Rugby World Cup history..?

Was a shock result in a pool match of the 2014 women’s Rugby World Cup the greatest upset in Rugby World Cup history?

18 April 2022

PLAYER PROFILE: Lewis Moody

Ahead of our next Legends Tours of Twickenham Stadium with Lewis Moody on Saturday 23rd April 2022, we're taking a look back at his rugby career...

12 April 2022

The Rise of the Black Ferns

The New Zealand women’s national team, the Black Ferns, are uncontestably one of the best international rugby teams in the world, but what is the history behind their meteoric rise?

04 April 2022

How Scotland Saved the 1994 Rugby World Cup

In January 1994 the Netherlands unexpectedly cancelled the second instalment of the women’s Rugby World Cup, but with just 90 days to go Scotland stepped in as hosts and rescued the tournament. Renamed the Women’s Rugby World Championship, the event proved to be a significant turning point in the history of the women’s game...

27 March 2022

1991 pioneers, players, and perseverance: The first women’s Rugby World Cup

The inaugural women’s Rugby World Cup took place in Wales over a two-week period in April, 1991. Twelve teams competed in venues around Cardiff in Wales, ultimately vying to take home an antique silver trophy...

21 March 2022

Lost and Found: The History of the Original Women’s Rugby World Cup

Of all the meticulous planning that went into the organisation of the first women’s Rugby World Cup in 1991, the trophy itself was something of an afterthought...

14 March 2022

Le Crunch, Old Gaytonians, PLESSIS MEUDON and 60 years of sporting frivolity by Connor Dickins

Connor Dickins explores the 60-year relationship that epitomised England v France…

07 March 2022

#FromTheVaults - 'The Springbok Girl' photographs

Our object of the month is this photograph of Kathleen Trick, ‘The Springbok Girl’, which was recently donated to the museum by one of Kathleen’s nieces. When Kathleen wore this custom-made kit to a fancy-dress party in 1907, it was the start of a special relationship with South Africa’s touring rugby teams...

28 February 2022

Springbok kickers through the ages

The Springboks have been renowned for hard and athletic ruggedness since joining the international fold against the British Isles in 1891...

21 February 2022

Madagascar - The rugby mad country you need to hear about, by Connor Dickins

Madagascar may not be the first country many think of when it comes to rugby. However, the East African island has one of the most vibrant rugby cultures on the planet...

14 February 2022

The Wales tour of the Pacific Islands, 1986

In the summer of 1986, with professionalism still almost ten years away, the Welsh Rugby Union sent a touring party of 25 players to the south seas to play six matches in Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa...

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