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Were Skirt Lifters Used by Victorian Hockey Players?

Were Skirt Lifters Used by Victorian Hockey Players?

by Hockey Admin | Dec 23, 2024 | Kit, Clothing and Equipment, Women's Hockey

On his recent visit to THM, Geoff Hinder (Trustee of the National Badminton Museum) saw images of Victorian lady hockey players and wondered how they managed to run around with all those layers of material – maybe they used a skirt-lifter? He described it as a brass...
Badminton Museum seeks to net Museum Accreditation with Woking visit

Badminton Museum seeks to net Museum Accreditation with Woking visit

by Hockey Admin | Dec 23, 2024 | 2024 News Items

At the end of November 2024, The Hockey Museum (THM) welcomed board members of the National Badminton Museum (NBM) for a fact-finding visit to see how we had approached the task of gaining Museum Accreditation and to learn how we had benefitted as a museum from going...
Exceptional Hungarian Hockey Cinefilms Materialise

Exceptional Hungarian Hockey Cinefilms Materialise

by Hockey Admin | Dec 23, 2024 | 2024 News Items, Hockey Worldwide

Still from the cinefilm titled “Hungarian Hockey Club – Amateur Hockey Club match, 1930. Old Raceground, Budapest.” Credit: Hungarian National Film Archive, MGYSZ Video Archive.   Among the International Hockey Federation’s (FIH) founding members back in 1924 was...
FIH 100: how The Hockey Museum supported the FIH centennial

FIH 100: how The Hockey Museum supported the FIH centennial

by Hockey Admin | Nov 22, 2024 | 2024 News Items

The Hockey Museum (THM) has been supporting the International Hockey Federation (FIH) to create a coffee table book and film celebrating 100 years of hockey’s world governing body. Their centennial book chronicles some of the most significant and interesting...
New website launched by the Scottish Hockey Heritage Group

New website launched by the Scottish Hockey Heritage Group

by Hockey Admin | Nov 22, 2024 | 2024 News Items

A small group of volunteers in Scotland have been working to locate, preserve and share their nation’s rich hockey heritage. Some of this amazing work is now available online for the wider hockey family to follow and support. Scottish Hockey Heritage Group officially...
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