Football and War Blog - University of Wolverhampton

02/05/2024 Blog

Larrett Roebuck - The First Footballer Killed in 1914

22/04/2024 Blog

Introduction to SALUTE! The Inside Story of England’s Own Goal at Berlin’s Olympiastadion

07/03/2024 Blog

Los Leones – The Incredible Story of the Truly Unique Athletic Club Bilbao

06/02/2024 Blog

Blood On The Crossbar: The Dictatorship’s World Cup by Rhys Richards

01/01/2024 Blog

British Footballers As Cold Warriors

05/12/2023 Blog

Women’s Football History Exhibition: 150 Years of Courage and Conviction - Featuring The Lizzy Ashcroft Collection

06/11/2023 Blog

No Stone Unturned...

26/09/2023 Blog

How Dictatorship and Internal Conflict Politicised Club Football Supporters in Italy and Spain

25/09/2023 Blog

John 'Jack' Kelly

05/09/2023 Blog

The John Lowe Collection - Tommy Walker XI Archive 1945 India/Ceylon

11/07/2023 Blog

They Also Served - Dulwich Hamlet and the Civil Defence Services

15/05/2023 Blog

Sometimes It Can Take More Than A Lifetime To Correct History...

01/03/2023 Blog

Exeter City’s 1914 Tour of South America - How Two Balls Survived the Outbreak of World War One

03/02/2023 Blog

The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism by Chris Lee

27/01/2023 Blog

Jewish Football Clubs in Breslau During the Interwar Period

17/01/2023 Blog

The Football and War Story of the Ernest Pinkney Family

06/01/2023 Blog

Birdsong on Holbeck Moor by Billy Morris

16/12/2022 Blog

In Memory of Flight Lieutenant Garth Hawkins

15/12/2022 Blog

Lest We Forget: In Memory of Maidenhead and Maidenhead Norfolkians Players Who Lost Their Lives in The Two World Wars Part Seven: Second World War

05/12/2022 Blog

Lest We Forget: In Memory of Maidenhead and Maidenhead Norfolkians Players Who Lost Their Lives in The Two World Wars Part Six: Second World War

18/11/2022 Blog

Lest We Forget: In Memory of Maidenhead and Maidenhead Norfolkians Players Who Lost Their Lives in The Two World Wars Part Five: First World War

15/11/2022 Blog

Lest We Forget: In Memory of Maidenhead and Maidenhead Norfolkians Players Who Lost Their Lives in The Two World Wars Part Four: First World War

08/11/2022 Blog

Football in World War One

31/10/2022 Blog

Lest We Forget: In Memory of Maidenhead and Maidenhead Norfolkians Players Who Lost Their Lives in The Two World Wars Part Three: First World War

10/10/2022 Blog

Lest We Forget: In Memory of Maidenhead and Maidenhead Norfolkians Players Who Lost Their Lives in The Two World Wars Part Two: First World War

07/10/2022 Blog

Lest We Forget: In Memory of Maidenhead and Maidenhead Norfolkians Players Who Lost Their Lives in The Two World Wars Part One: First World War

28/09/2022 Blog

Maidenhead Football in The Great War

28/09/2022 Blog

Harold Walden- Soldier, Footballer, Olympian, Star of Stage and Screen

28/09/2022 Blog

There's Only One Harry Hampton!

23/09/2022 Blog

George Chaplin - A Story of Destiny, Despair and Disgrace

21/06/2022 Blog

Footballers in the 24th (2nd Sportsmen’s) Battalion, the Royal Fusiliers in the Great War. Part Two – Private Charles Reuben Clements

13/06/2022 Blog

Footballers in the 24th (2nd Sportsmen's Battalion, the Royal Fusiliers in the Great War

01/06/2022 Blog

"Soldiers and Sportsmen All" - The Great War Story of the 24th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers by Dr Robert Wynn Jones

11/05/2022 Blog

Atalanta Forever - Part 1

03/05/2022 Blog

Barney Mulrenan: 1912-1995

27/04/2022 Blog

Finding Carmen

26/04/2022 Blog

Harold 'Spud' Taylor's Cup Final

26/04/2022 Blog

The Match That (Probably) Never Was...

28/01/2022 Blog

Lost Football Heroes of the First World War

24/01/2022 Blog

Scratching the Surface

21/01/2022 Blog

Who Were Football's Bedouins?

09/01/2022 Blog

Wealdstone FC - We’ve Got Turret Syndrome

08/01/2022 Blog

Play the Game

07/01/2022 Blog

Jean Borotra - The Man Who Banned Women's Football in France

07/01/2022 Blog

Portadown FC Roll of Honour

08/12/2021 Blog

Portadown FC - A Call to Arms

25/11/2021 Blog

The Life and Times of a Team Player

27/10/2021 Blog

Football Badges and 20th Century Conflicts

20/10/2021 Blog

Women's Football in the North West

17/09/2021 Blog

Francis ‘Frank’ O’Hara – 31st August 1883 to 12th July 1915

02/08/2021 Blog

RAAC (Rome Area Army Command) vs Joint Lazio-Roma XI

08/07/2021 Blog

James Matthews: Minnesota’s Canadian War Hero

15/04/2021 Blog

Football For The Troops: World War Two Memories

26/03/2021 Blog

The Blitz, A George Medal Award and the Charlton Athletic Connection

01/03/2021 Blog

The Minnie Seed Story

01/03/2021 Blog

A Time to Remember- A Time to Reflect

20/01/2021 Blog

From Palestine with Love

13/01/2021 Blog

Berlin-Baghdad Railway F.C.

04/12/2020 Blog

Women’s Football and World War Two

30/11/2020 Blog

Football and the Great Game…World War One Some Remarkable Images

09/11/2020 Blog

Exeter City FC Remembers: The 1914 FA Cup

21/10/2020 Blog

Nazi Salutes in Southampton and the Swastika over White Hart Lane: England versus Germany in 1935

08/10/2020 Blog

An Unprincipled Rogue – A Fan’s Story

08/10/2020 Blog

Remembered at Last – The Jimmy Hoather Story

12/08/2020 Blog

Skipton’s Famous POW Footballer

07/08/2020 Blog

Football, the British Army and the First World War

04/08/2020 Blog

Camp Sport - Part 3

03/08/2020 Blog

Camp Sport - Part 2

31/07/2020 Blog

Camp Sport - Part 1

03/07/2020 Blog

The Football Game That Makes Me Cry

27/06/2020 Blog

The Comedian and the Major: Sammy Shields, Major Buckley and the ball of the Footballers’ Battalion

05/06/2020 Blog

The ‘Noble Gift’ which led to the Formation of Dick, Kerr Ladies FC

29/05/2020 Blog

Football’s Last Lost Season

22/05/2020 Blog

The Addicks First Lost Season

15/05/2020 Blog

Sacrifice of One So Young – The story of Donald Homer of Charlton Athletic FC

07/05/2020 Blog

Masculinising Yet Burlesque? The Depiction of Women’s Football in the Interwar Years

20/04/2020 Blog

They Also Served - Dulwich Hamlet's Civil Defence Workers

06/03/2020 Blog

Football in Occupied Belgium During the Great War

21/02/2020 Blog

The Ruhleben Football Association

21/02/2020 Blog

Hasta los Fogoneros!

17/02/2020 Blog

Leigh Roose - Lost in France

12/02/2020 Blog

Fulham and the Second World War Part 5 - Fulham’s Wartime Internationals, Guest Players and Players Killed During the War

11/02/2020 Blog

Fulham and the Second World War Part 4 – Season 1945/46

10/02/2020 Blog

Fulham and the Second World War Part 3 - Seasons 1943/44-1944/45

07/02/2020 Blog

Fulham and the Second World War Part 2 - Seasons 1940/41-1942/43

06/02/2020 Blog

Fulham and the Second World War Part 1 - Season 1939-40

30/01/2020 Blog

Remembering Fulham Players Who Died In The Great War

28/01/2020 Blog

Fulham Guest Players During The First World War

27/01/2020 Blog

Fulham Players and the First World War

24/01/2020 Blog

Fulham and The First World War

23/01/2020 Blog

England’s Oldest Football Clubs 1815-1889: A New Chronological History of Military Football Teams – 1844-1888

19/12/2019 Blog

50 Football Heroes: in War and Peace

18/12/2019 Blog

Five out of Six Came Home – Charlton Athletic and the Aftermath of War

05/12/2019 Blog

The Exeter City Football Club Museum: The Journey from a Cupboard to a Stadium-Wide Museum

22/11/2019 Blog

Charlton Life Somme and Arras Battlefield Tour July 2019

08/11/2019 Blog

Impacts of the Two World Wars on Exeter City AFC

15/08/2019 Blog

Charlton’s Normandy Hero – Geoffrey Reynolds

15/08/2019 Blog

A “virtual” Second World War Walk From The Valley To The White Swan

08/08/2019 Blog

Tales of an East Street Boy: Jim Mackenzie – Charlton Athletic Pioneer

07/08/2019 Blog

Football and the Spanish Civil War: Beyond El Clásico

18/07/2019 Blog

The Football and War School History Project 2018-2019

18/07/2019 Blog

For Some The Match Finished Too Early!

26/06/2019 Blog

Wings for Victory - Wartime Women’s Football in Erith

05/06/2019 Blog

Alzheimer's/Dementia Forget Me Not Football Memorabilia Collection Display and Where’s Wally Warwick Walk Without Wallets

23/05/2019 Blog

Who’s for the Game?

16/05/2019 Blog

Exeter City Pays Homage To Their World War Heroes

01/05/2019 Blog

Football & War and The Football of Loos at Champion Hill

29/03/2019 Blog

The London Irish Rifles and The Football of Loos

17/01/2019 Blog

The Fallen Spartans of the Great War

10/12/2018 Blog

Dunstable Town FC: Remembrance Saturday Match Commemoration 2018

06/12/2018 Blog

Games of Remembrance 2018: The Generations Respect, Remember and Enjoy

23/11/2018 Blog

Staines Town - Football and The Wars

25/10/2018 Blog

The Beautiful Badge goes to war

20/09/2018 Blog

The Games of Remembrance

31/05/2018 Blog

Our Fathers’ Wartime Careers

20/04/2018 Blog

Remembering Barry Town’s First Captain: Major James Wightman, DSO MC

28/03/2018 Blog

Corinthian Casuals Commemorate and Honour Their Fallen Players of the First World War

21/03/2018 Blog

Memorabilia Corner: A Medal from Women's Football in World War One

08/03/2018 Blog

Professional Football in Barnsley between 1939 and 1963: Essential Work, the Front Line and National Service

22/02/2018 Blog

Fast and Furious – One Hundred Years on and Still a Hero

15/02/2018 Blog

The First FA Cup Clubs

16/01/2018 Blog

Making the People’s Game: Football History and the Second World War

20/12/2017 Blog

Spurs – A Family Affair

23/11/2017 Blog

Dulwich Hamlet during the Second World War

16/11/2017 Blog

A Game for Christmas

09/11/2017 Blog

Women's football in Chesterfield during World War One: The first-ever women's competition in England?

27/10/2017 Blog

United in the Wars

20/10/2017 Blog

Footballers and the Great War: A Cigarette Card Series: The Start of Something…

03/08/2017 Blog

Women, Sport and The First World War

28/06/2017 Blog

Charlton Athletic at War