12 January 2016 Who's in the plates? Sporting intrigue at Devizes Flea Market The following conversation took place in the local flea market in Devizes one Tuesday morning. Read More
12 January 2016 Who's in the plates? Sporting intrigue at Devizes Flea Market The following conversation took place in the local flea market in Devizes one Tuesday morning. Read More
04 January 2016 Remembering Twickenham's First Groundsman Michael Leslie Rycroft, Great Grandson of Charles Hale, remembers Twickenham's first groundsman... Read More
21 December 2015 Passchendaele Remembers Dai Westacott At a moving commemoration held on the evening of the 10th November each year, the villagers of Passchendaele honour the memory of the men of all nationalities who died during the Third Battle of Ypres (31 July - 10 November 1917), perhaps better known as "Passchendaele". Read More
18 December 2015 BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year The BBC Sports Personality of the year award has been running since the mid-1950s. Originally devised by the British television executive Sir Paul Fox, the awards have evolved to honour not just individual talent from the UK but also team achievements, overseas personalities, coaches, junior sporting personalities and more. Read More
14 December 2015 Welsh Giants of the King's Cup When Newport staged one of the games in the six-team Inter Services Championship (King's Cup) in March 1919, Australia beating South Africa 6-5 in March 1919, a Newport man who was to be a South African cap was in the 'Springbok' line up. Read More
11 December 2015 One of Us: England's Greatest Rugby Players - Norman Wodehouse The word 'hero' is often freely bandied about in relation to sport but Norman Wodehouse was a hero in every sense of the word. Born in Basford, by the age of fifteen he had enrolled in the Royal Naval College and was selected to represent the Royal Navy in 1907. Read More
07 December 2015 Ireland's Call by Stephen Walker During the Great War hundreds of Irish rugby players joined the British Army and lost their lives in the mud of France and Flanders and in the heat of Gallipoli. Read More
02 December 2015 One of Us: England’s Greatest Rugby Players - Cherry Pillman As a boy Cherry Pillman is purported to have been present when the 1905 touring All-Blacks took on England at Crystal Palace. If true it would seem that whilst everyone else was becoming irate at the borderline infringement play of New Zealand captain Dave Gallaher, Pillman was taking notes. Read More
27 November 2015 Book Launch Invitation - The Kings Cup, 1919 by Howard Evans and Phil Atkinson At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, all rugby was suspended by decree of the individual rugby unions, with only inter-military encounters and fundraising games permitted. Read More
24 November 2015 One of Us: England's Greatest Rugby Players - Martin Johnson Martin Johnson was concussed for most of his 1993 international debut. The fact that he was singled out as having shored up the English lineout and ensured a narrow victory over France was indicative of the type of impact he would go on to have for his team. Read More
17 November 2015 Newport Rugby Football Club '140 Years of Rugby' exhibition Newport Rugby Football club is celebrating its 140th year with an exhibition at Newport Museum. Club historian Stephen Bennett here describes what visitors might expect. Read More
11 November 2015 A History of the Bristol Memorial Ground The Memorial Ground was built for the Bristol Rugby Club, and is now the home of Bristol Rovers Football Club. Next year, the city's Ceremony of Remembrance is to be held at the war memorial stadium. Read More