At The Hockey Museum we have numerous hockey magazines and the earliest edition of a hockey magazine we have in our archives is the magazine Hockey, published on Friday, 15 December 1893.

Hockey, is described as “a weekly review of the game, which is published every Friday morning in time for the early mails, can be had at bookstalls in all parts of the country and any newsagent in Great Britain”. Priced at two pence, this twelve page publication contains match reports, notes, “Rules of the Hockey Association” and “Rules of the Game of Hockey”. Later editions included biographies and portraits of hockey celebrities, group portraits of hockey teams and club histories. This issue also contains a list of clubs affiliated to The Hockey Association.

They are listed in alphabetical order as: Addiscombe HC; Benson HC; Bromley HC; Cambridge University HC; Central Croydon HC; Chippenham HC; Croydon HC; Denmark Hill HC; Ealing HC; East Sheen HC; Grecian HC; Hampstead HC; Hampton Wick HC; Ilford HC; Kensington Park HC; Kidderminster HC; Leicester HC; Mitcham HC; Molesey HC; Pinner HC; Putney HC; Queen’s College, Oxford; Rovers HC; Rugby HC; Shooters Hill HC; Southgate HC; Staines HC; Surbiton HC; Teddington HC; Thames Ditton HC; Trinity Colledge, Cambridge; Westgate HC; West Gloucester HC; West Kent HC; Weston (Bath) HC; Willesden HC; Wimbledon HC; Winchester Bandy and Hockey Club.

Dil Bahra, February 2012