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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.

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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...

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.

07 May 2018

The Western Samoa disaster tour of 1992

After Cyclone Val devastated the Western Samoan islands, a team of rugby players were sponsored in 1992 to tour England in support of the ‘Pass the Ball for Samoa’ appeal.

23 April 2018

Naval Special Ops - Arthur Harrison and the Zeebrugge Raid

At midnight on the 22nd April 1918 Lieutenant Commander Harrison was in position outside the bridge on board the HMS Vindictive, as it floated silently towards the Zeebrugge Mole shrouded in smoke...

22 April 2018

Clarrie Wallach - From Bondi to the Western Front

By the end of the First World War, 35 Wallabies had seen active service. Ten did not survive. Clarence Wallach was one of these men.

20 April 2018

Lest We Forget - Reginald Harry Myburgh “Reggie” Hands (England) 20/04/1918

Lest We Forget - Reginald Harry Myburgh “Reggie” Hands (England) 20/04/1918

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