Historical Hockey Stories
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Our collections and research activity means we are constantly uncovering fascinating stories from across hockey’s rich British and international history. Explore them below.
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A lost chapter of women’s hockey: Jane Miller, Leyland Motors and the first English Cup
For years, Joanne Chadwick’s family knew it simply as Grandma’s Lancashire hockey medal. It...
Dial-up and floppy disks: hockey’s digital frontier at the 1998 World Cup
For Yan Huckendubler, the 1998 Hockey World Cup in Utrecht was supposed to be a spectator's trip....
Captain Cox, Dhyan Chand and India’s first international matches
Is this one of the most important hockey sticks in the world? At first glance, it is simply an old...
One stage, two World Cups: how Utrecht changed hockey history
A remarkable but often overlooked fact of the modern Hockey World Cup era is that on every...
Big Stadium Hockey: from Utrecht to the World Cups of the future
Article by Sue Catton, former Head of Events at England Hockey and now Big Stadium Hockey...
The First Hockey Picture Book? Kathleen Ainslie’s 1907 Mops versus Tails
By Atlanta Tsiaoukkas, University of Cambridge Whilst Angela Brazil is typically credited...
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