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16 September 2018

Lest We Forget - Maurice Boyau (France) 16/09/1918

If his rugby career was distinguished, his military record was exceptional.

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16 September 2018

Lest We Forget - Maurice Boyau (France) 16/09/1918

If his rugby career was distinguished, his military record was exceptional.

10 September 2018

Flying Lions: Peter Larter

Flying Lions - Peter Larter Continuing our series of biographies by David Smith, covering some of the British & Irish Lions who served with the RAF.

27 August 2018

Getting to know Younji

At the start of her last week with the World Rugby Museum, we put some questions to our intern Younji from South Korea. She has been with us for an 8 week placement as part of her postgraduate Museum Studies course at the University of Leicester.

13 August 2018

Winston Ide: From Wallaby to Prisoner of War

"Sturdily built, of medium height, Blow was nicely set up for a centre three-quarter...he had great courage and his low, hard tackling and fearless going down on the ball in the face of charging forwards won him many admirers."

06 August 2018

The ill-fated 1939-40 Wallabies tour

Dubbed the ‘tour of a lifetime’, it was expected to be a ten-month, 28-match tour of Great Britain for an Australian representative side...

30 July 2018

Remembering South Africa's International Debut

127 years ago, 21 British rugby players set sail to South Africa, captained by Scotland’s Bill Maclagan.

23 July 2018

Cardiff v Newport: The Ladies' Story

A century after the first British women gained the right to vote, our women's rugby historian, Lydia Furse, takes a look at how sport impacted the lives of many women in South Wales during the First World War.

16 July 2018

Flying Lions: Bleddyn Williams

Flying Lions: Bleddyn Williams Continuing our series of biographies by David Smith, covering some of the British & Irish Lions who served with the RAF.

02 July 2018

Tanaka and Clarke: The friends that took rugby from Cambridge to Japan

Rugby football arrived in Japan relatively early by worldwide standards, but it was not until the turn of the twentieth century that the sport would be played by Japanese nationals.

25 June 2018

From Silver to Gold, and back again!

It's been 70 years since Jack Gregory and the rest of the 1948 British Olympic 100 meter relay team briefly won gold in London...

18 June 2018

Flying Lions: Rory Underwood

Flying Lions: Rory Underwood First of a series of biographies by David Smith, covering some of the British & Irish Lions who served with the RAF.

04 June 2018

Daisy, Daisy, give me some arsenic do…

1906 saw the first South African rugby tour to the United Kingdom. We are lucky enough to have a blazer from this tour on display in our World Tours Gallery. If you do come and visit us however, don’t be fooled by the blazer’s civilised appearance, this particular garment has links to a much more grisly past...

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