by The Hockey Museum | Mar 14, 2016 | Book Reviews
Published by Amazon, 2012. John Pennington’s account of the plight of a never ending losing team may resonate with small sports and hockey clubs up and down the land, its rendition of a three year period when Grantham, a backwater hockey club in the east...
by The Hockey Museum | Mar 8, 2016 | 2016 News Items
Former Royal Navy hockey player Admiral Dick Wildish has celebrated his 101st birthday. He played in the Inter Services hockey matches in 1939 and again in 1946 and is currently the longest serving Vice President of the Royal Navy Hockey Association (RNHA), having...
by The Hockey Museum | Mar 7, 2016 | Book Reviews
Published by Gall & Inglis, 1860. A surprising number of hockey books are published every year and sometimes it takes The Hockey Museum (THM) a while to become aware of them as hockey is not mentioned in the title. In the case of biographies and...
by The Hockey Museum | Mar 1, 2016 | International Hockey, Men's Hockey
The first four international matches that were played by England men were all against Ireland. They were in 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1898. As this was around the ‘birth’ of international hockey it is not altogether surprising to discover repeat fixtures...
by The Hockey Museum | Feb 25, 2016 | 2016 News Items
The Hockey Museum (THM) is a volunteer-led organisation and our fifty volunteers are responsible for everything that the museum achieves. Yet, as more people hear about THM and our reputation grows, there is more to be done. Not everything happens at the Museum itself...
