Shinobu Akimoto, an Associate Professor from Kobe University in Japan, who is a specialist in hockey history with particular interest in mixed hockey in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, visited The Hockey Museum yesterday. Akimoto is a visiting researcher at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester.
During his research, he found a 1906 article in Illustrated News on mixed hockey being played at Bath Hockey Club. His research at The British Library, London, was fruitless as they did not have any material on Bath Hockey Club. He found our website, contacted us and was very pleased to discover that among our Club History collection we had the History of Bath Hockey Club, 1889-1989.
Akimoto was so impressed with our collection that he extended his visit and has arranged to come for a whole day on 19 June. He stated that he had never seen so many hockey items under one roof and said this was a researcher’s paradise!
Dil Bahra, June 2012
