by Hockey Admin | Feb 14, 2025 | Oral History Interviewee Biographies
Sheila Morrow OBE represented Wales and Great Britain in hockey at international level before briefly turning to umpiring. After retiring from her playing career, Sheila became an official for the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and then a judge,...
by Hockey Admin | Jan 23, 2025 | Women's Hockey
In November 1964 Nottinghamshire Junior 1st XI captain Barbara Brindley led her team to a 5-1 victory with a determined spirit in a match at the Meridian Ground. Hockey Field magazine reporting on the match claimed that she, “broke up many Lincolnshire attacks”....
by Hockey Admin | Jan 23, 2025 | Hockey in Popular Culture
Was Blackheath Hockey Club player Montague Druitt the notorious London murderer dubbed Jack the Ripper? Montague John Druitt was born in Wimborne, Dorset. He was a member of Blackheath Hockey Club from 1881 until his death in 1888. A Classics graduate from New...
by Hockey Admin | Jan 23, 2025 | From the Collection, Grassroots and Club Hockey, Men's Hockey
On 30 October 1880, Teddington Hockey Club convened a special committee meeting to accept a new member. In attendance were the president, captain and two senior club representatives. All to appoint one member! The president proposed the member, which was a high...
by Hockey Admin | Jan 23, 2025 | 2025 News Items
The Hockey Museum (THM) is delighted to announce the award of funding received for a new project to develop its oral history archive. The project will increase the online accessibility and discoverability of our existing archive of diverse oral history interviews....
