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New year, new faces on our Board of Trustees
The Hockey Museum (THM) is delighted to announce the appointment of two new recruits to our Board of Trustees, Eleanor Thomas and Vanessa Mitchell. Both are museum...
Reflections on Great Britain honours cap presentations in 2025
In 2016, The Hockey Museum’s (THM) Statistics Working Group began to interrogate our collection material to create a definitive record of every Great Britain (GB)...
Unusual Medal from the Basra and District Hockey League
The Museum has received an enquiry about this medal (pictured) and believe it relates to a hockey competition held in Basra, Mesopotamia (that is to say, Basra in...
Great Britain honours cap for 1948 Olympian Neil White
The Great Britain (GB) honours cap of Scottish Olympic silver medallist William Neil White (player no. 49) was presented to his niece Mairi Pollock at Gullane Golf Club...
Stitching Stories: How Yan Huckendubler Quilted a Lifetime of Hockey Memories
How often do you reflect warmly on your experiences in hockey and the friendships made? These are recurring themes in our archive of oral history interviews [Oral...
Museum joins Global Effort to Showcase Sultan Azlan Shah’s Hockey Legacy
The Hockey Museum (THM) recently had the privilege of contributing to the creation of a film for The Sultan Azlan Shah Gallery in Malaysia. The Gallery provides...
Our finding aids project: opening up access to The Hockey Museum archives
The Hockey Museum (THM) has been working on a project to develop ‘finding aids’ for our archives. The purpose of this project is to make our archives more accessible to...
John Willmott, 1953-2025
A Life of Colour, Character and Hockey 17.09.1953 – 13.10.2025 The Hockey Museum reports with great shock and sadness the death of John Willmott on 13 October...
The Hockey Museum seeks Collections Management Trustee
Are you an experienced museum professional with collections management expertise? Are you looking for an opportunity to actively contribute to a young, vibrant and...
Oral history interviews enhanced with exciting new digital tools
The Hockey Museum is delighted to announce the completion of a project to develop and improve access to its archive of diverse oral history interviews. New digital...
Memories of Edinburgh 1975: 50 years on from the IFWHA World Championship
In a recent article (link below), we posed the question of whether the International Federation of Women’s Hockey Associations (IFWHA) World Championships in 1975 and...
Capturing a Corinthian Spirit: The Hockey Museum Acquires the PJ Wilson Collection
The Hockey Museum (THM) recently acquired the collection of eminent late Wales and Great Britain international hockey player Peter Wilson (1942-2024), known...
Happy 100th birthday, Joy Crowther!
When The Hockey Museum celebrates someone’s life, it normally takes the form of an obituary, so we’re delighted to celebrate the recent birthday of a sportswoman who is...
Olympic pins for Kenyan hockey athletes
On 2 August 2025 The Hockey Museum (THM) trustee Tochi Panesar attended a ceremony in London, England where special pins were presented to Kenyan hockey Olympians...
Reunited at Peffermill: Honouring the Scottish women behind the 1975 World Championship
On a sunny Saturday in July, contributors to the success of the eleventh International Federation of Women’s Hockey Associations (IFWHA) Conference and World...
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