by The Hockey Museum | Jul 31, 2016 | 2016 News Items
The Hockey Museum is delighted to announce its second professional appointment. Shane Smith has been appointed as Curatorial Assistant on a one-year contract and begins today. He joined the Museum in October 2013 as Volunteer Curator of Art and later as Digital...
by The Hockey Museum | Jul 31, 2016 | Kit, Clothing and Equipment, Women's Hockey
We recently came across an interesting advertisement in The Hockey Field magazine from 6 January 1916: “Physical Instructors and Games Mistresses are recommended to try the Liberty Bodice. It obviates the necessity for corsets and gives absolute freedom of...
by The Hockey Museum | Jul 24, 2016 | 2016 News Items
The Hockey Museum has been awarded a grant of £15,300 by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to enable it to digitise its collection of nearly 100 old hockey films dating back to the 1930s. This project will preserve the films and also make them available for...
by The Hockey Museum | Jul 24, 2016 | Book Reviews
As hockey fans, seldom do we gain access to a compendium of our national team’s fortunes covering half a century. This book, cleverly crafted by one of hockey’s most respected and enduring journalists, Bill Colwill, offers the reader a tremendous insight...
by The Hockey Museum | Jul 21, 2016 | 2016 News Items
Alia Bhatt at premiere of ‘Udta Punjab’. The recently released Bollywood movie Udta Punjab has something special for the hockey lovers. The movie, which focuses on the drug abuse problem in the Indian state of Punjab, has hockey as a major influence...
