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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...

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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.

09 July 2018

5 things to spot at the World Rugby Museum

With the summer holidays rapidly approaching, here is a taster of what you can see on your visit to the World Rugby Museum…

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...

28 May 2018

Who was the first substitute referee?

The first substitute referee on a grim day for Irish rugby…but who was the referee?

21 May 2018

‘If the greatest writer of the written word would've written that story no-one would have believed it’

45 years ago, Gareth Edwards scored “that try” playing for the Barbarians against New Zealand.

14 May 2018

First Reserve - AH Walker

First Reserve - AH Walker The late 1920s and 1930s were an interesting period of development for the roles now associated with the tight-five. Toft and Walker represented two sides of the coin in this development.

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