by The Hockey Museum | May 6, 2021 | 2021 News Items
In very exciting news, The Hockey Museum (THM) is re-opening this month! We will be welcoming back our volunteers, socially distanced and safely, from the week commencing 17 May 2021 and returning to our regular public opening hours from the week of 21 June 2021 in...
by The Hockey Museum | Apr 22, 2021 | 2021 News Items
In recent years, The Hockey Museum’s Hockey’s Military Stories (HMS) research project has become one of our more extensive activities. It came about because of feats of valour shown by hockey people, yet it goes much further than just wartime exploits and...
by The Hockey Museum | Apr 21, 2021 | Hockey in Popular Culture
Portrait of William Shakespeare, 1610. Possibly painted by John Taylor. There are several references to the word ‘bandy’ in the works of English playwright William Shakespeare, including one in Romeo and Juliet when Romeo, trying to stop a fight between Tybalt...
by The Hockey Museum | Apr 21, 2021 | Hockey in Popular Culture, Men's Hockey, Mixed Hockey
Frank Benson, actor and hockey players, inWilliam Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. The Edwardian era would witness the peak of theatre going and its watershed moment as cinema arrived. It also witnessed a sporting boom – especially in hockey...
by The Hockey Museum | Apr 13, 2021 | Obituaries
Jane Nockolds was prepared for all weather at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. 27.05.1959 – 25.03.2021 By Val Sassall. I first met Jane when we were both in our early 20s, at the Penzance Festival. I was umpiring and Jane was the...
