by Mark Haworth | Dec 23, 2024 | Hockey Worldwide, Kit, Clothing and Equipment
A recent BBC Radio 4 story saw hockey feature in a highly unusual way. Mathematician Hannah Fry hosts the series Uncharted, which explores the mystery, drama and intrigue behind numbers and graphs. The episode in question is titled “The Hockey Stick”, the name given...
by Mark Haworth | 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...
by Mark Haworth | 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...
by Mark Haworth | 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...
by Mark Haworth | Nov 22, 2024 | Grassroots and Club Hockey, Women's Hockey
Can you help to identify the women in this photograph? The All England Women’s Hockey Association (AEWHA) had been the ruling body of women’s hockey since 1895 but in the early part of the twentieth century the emergence of women’s hockey leagues, mainly in the north...