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📆 Mar: Study Day in Wales 📆 June: Sporting Heritage & Fashion Week 📆 Sept: National Sporting Heritage Day, Scotland 📆 Nov: Sporting Heritage Awards Stay tuned! Sign up here: bit.ly/4coXZ8Z #SportingHeritage

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#IWD2025 Granny Dagenham with Fab Guests - Free MUST BOOK @footballandwar.bsky.social @bssh.bsky.social Sat Mar 8 1pm @sportingheritage.bsky.social @sthelenstownafc.bsky.social 💚⚽️https://valencehousecollections.co.uk/events/granny-women-in-football-lizzy-ashcroft-and-the-dagenham-invincibles/⚽️💚

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Thread on an unsung Cardiff sporting hero 🧵 Bob Maplestone who #OTD in 1972 in San Diego became the first Briton to run an indoor sub four minute Mile (3:59.50) @sportingheritage.bsky.social @worldathletics.org

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📢 Community Grant Round 3: Spring 2025, Now Open! The grants are open to any applicant based in any one of the four UK home nations. For more information click the link to find out more: tinyurl.com/3pzmfnb2. Big thanks to the generous support of #HeritageFundUK

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🎙️Our Trainees share their oral history experiences🎙️ As part of the #DontDisMyAbility project, we trained 6 new oral historians, including our four #museum trainees. Want to hear what they thought of their experiences? 👉 Read this interview: www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/interviews-w... #MuseumEd

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The thanks for helping to get this over the line are many To all the participants, providers of audio-visual material, the supporters, the funders @podcastpeldroed.bsky.social @gwylwalgoch.bsky.social @sportingheritage.bsky.social @footymuseumcymru.bsky.social Diolch yn fawr iawn i chi gyd 😊

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I’d urge everyone to watch this if you want to know something about women’s football history or the history of Manchester: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... @manchesterup.bsky.social @mcrhistory.bsky.social @manchestercity.news @manchesterreview.bsky.social

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📢 We're Hiring! 📢 We're seeking an evaluation consultant to review how successfully NPHT is developing inclusive interpretation for #D/deaf, #disabled and #neurodiverse people throughout our current programmes of work. 🗓️ Evaluation Period: February 2025 to July 2026 🗓️ Apply By: 5th February 2025

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🎉 Make your New Year’s resolution to become a Sporting Heritage Supporter! We’re moving to a flexible Supporters Scheme. Contributing at a level that suits you will help us preserve the UK’s sporting history. Discover more: tinyurl.com/yt3s5x6y. #SportingHeritage #SportHistory

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Congratulations to one of our commissioned community grants 🥳 Part of the project is to celebrate this heritage through a Blue Plaque where Larry Gains boxed. His great-grandson and family is instrumental in making this happen. Lewis Patrick Photography @NubianJak #Boxing #BluePlaques

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📅 Stay updated with Sporting Heritage events! From webinars to workshops, we offer great opportunities to connect & learn about the UK's sporting history. Follow us on Eventbrite for the latest updates: bit.ly/3N5L5SK 🎉 #SportingHeritage #HeritageEvent #Sport

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Remember, remember the fifth of December (is when we'll be (re)launching our new Esmée Fairbairn Communities and Collections Fund)

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Sign up for our FREE monthly email newsletter. ⁠ ⁠ Receive updates about Sporting Heritage activity, as well as the latest sector news, events and funding opportunities! ⁠ ⁠ Sign up here: bit.ly/4coXZ8Z ⁠ #SportingHeritage #SportHistory #YourSportingStory

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Today was wonderful. The largest reunion of Corinthians-here’sa taste of this wonderful community of women footballers. Last week #nwfa2024 deservedly gave them a special recognition award. It’s a pleasure helping these wonderful people get the acclaim they deserve www.youtube.com/watch?v=msq2...

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Our #StirScanStudio is going to be busy over the next few months with two BIG new digitisation projects. First up a collaborative project with the Bill McLaren Foundation to open up access to the archives of the famous #rugby broadcaster www.stir.ac.uk/news/2024/au... @sportingheritage.bsky.social

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#OTD Fergus Suter, one of the first professional footballers, was born in Glasgow on 21 November 1857. From Partick he moved to Darwen in 1878, where he was paid to play, and then to Blackburn Rovers where he won 3 FA Cups. Full story: www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...

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Just over a week left to apply for our latest Community Grant funding. Deadline 29th November 👇

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New funding opportunity for LGBTQ+ Creative Projects in Scotland! 🌈 Find out more about the funding offered by Museums Galleries Scotland through the Small Grants Fund here: www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/funding/smal... The project will be able to join the QHCN Development Programme 2025-26

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'DMU research to investigate history of women's field hockey clothing and its importance to sports culture'. Full story at this link: www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/ne... #sportshistory #WomenInSport

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Our current exhibition is What would Lucy Say? and it marks the 5oth anniversary of @alpineclub.bsky.social decision to admit women. It looks at female mountaineering from it's early beginings to today and tells some incredible stories of women determined not to be excluded. 1/2

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Sign up for our FREE monthly email newsletter. ⁠ ⁠ Receive updates about Sporting Heritage activity, as well as the latest sector news, events and funding opportunities! ⁠ ⁠ Sign up here: bit.ly/4coXZ8Z ⁠ #SportingHeritage #SportHistory #YourSportingStory

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The International Football History Conference AKA "FootyCon" are excited to be on @bsky.app! Let any football historians (That's football of all codes) know we're on the app & holding our 2025 conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland!! You can buy your tickets via this link: bit.ly/FootyCon25

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Now with a better link: www.artsjobs.org.uk/jobs/53007. Please RT

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How we can support you 🙌 🛠️ Toolkit 🧑‍🏫 Training 🗞️ Newsletter 🎙️ Podcast 👥 Networking 🗺️ Adding your collection to our map See more: sportingheritage.org.uk

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Calling all museums in #Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Want to understand more about your sporting collections? Can we help? No matter how big or small the collection - get in touch / complete this short form asap. surveymonkey.com/r/WelshMuseums Generously funded by the Welsh Government #SportingHeritage #WelshSport

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Our Community Grants are back🎉 We're delighted to be able to offer another round of grants this year thanks to the support of the players of The National Lottery and the #HeritageFund! You’ll find the link to the application form within the guidance document. 🔗 bit.ly/3zB2TCb

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