Sporting Heritage

As The Hockey Museum calls a wrap on month in their latest post on the changing face of hockey wear, we'd like to thank everyone who has shared their sportswear heritage collections, archives, and stories throughout June! 👏👏👏

📷 Midland Counties Women’s Hockey Team vs Western Counties, Wolverhampton 1934. From the Christina Dony collection at The Hockey Museum

That’s a wrap on month! 👗🩳🏑

We hoped you enjoyed learning about hockey clothing, the objects in our collection and the objects we hope to add in the future!

Check out hockeymuseum.org for longer articles about some of the objects and topics discussed on our social media this month.

😎 This 's treat features the Ski Club of Great Britain Collection. But it's not all winter woollies, a good pair of shades is essential as snow reflects a huge amount of sunlight. 👇️ c 1920 Sporting Heritage International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC)

A History of Team Scotland in 10 items Celebrating a century of international sporting competition preserved in the archives of Commonwealth Games Scotland.

Reposted from Somerset Cricket Museum

Once again the is supporting the Sporting Heritage month.

This year we have set up two slide sets showing the evolution in design of cricket boots, pads and gloves from those items held in the Museum

https://somersetcricketmuseum.co.uk/somerset-cricket-museum-cricket-equipment-exhibition/

Reposted from .be for month

During the first years of the emergence of cycling as a competition sport, typical cycling clothing did not yet exist. But the riders copied just about everything from equestrian sports: (sub)disciplines, competition regulations, race distances, and therefore also the clothing.
Why? Because cycling was a completely new sport and its practitioners were looking for a way to quickly give this new discipline a social foothold. They could achieve this by copying another closely related sports discipline that stood higher on the social ladder.
In the image, we see a French velocipedist wearing riding attire: a cap, blouson, riding breeches, and black leather boots.
The next image shows the participants list of an early cycling race in the UK on April 3, 1869 from Chester to Rock Ferry with the name of the riders, the color of their caps and the names of their iron horse/velocipede (Source: The Cheshire Observer, April 10, 1869, 3.).

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'(Re)fashioning women's leisure: image, material and place, 1850-present'.

🎾Thursday 25 June 2026 - from 9:15 AM - 4:30 PM.

Registration NOW OPEN for this conference led by PhD student, Emmy Sale.

Further details at this link -
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/refashioning-womens-leisure-image-material-and-place-1850-present-tickets-1981423447871?aff=oddtdtcreator

We've heard there's some sort of big football competition starting tomorrow but we are much more interested in the history of our own wonderful local Ilfracombe Town AFC! Come and take a peek into their history with our display now on show in the Ilfracombe gallery during June and July.

Loving this month gem shared by The Hockey Museum. Over to you Dora...

📷 Dashing Dora: shop window or counter display figure. Used to promote the Liberty Bodice designed and made by R & WH Symington, c1920s. Leicestershire Museum Collections

Meet Dashing Dora 🏑👋

Found in the archive of Leicestershire Museum Collections , Dora wears a typical hockey uniform of the 1920s: a pleated gym slip, long stockings, shin pads and a fashionable bob haircut held in place by hairband.

However, she unusually wears her Liberty Bodice, made by R & WH Symington, on top of her tunic to advertise the soft, warm and flexible undergarment originally designed for children. By 1912 adult sizes were available and it was quickly advertised as a suitable undergarment for sportswomen. England International player Mabel Bryant even endorsed it in 1914, calling it “the most comfortable bodice I have ever worn when taking part in games and gymnastics.”

Do you have a Dashing Dora or related object to donate to The Hockey Museum? We would like to acquire a similar object to help our preservation of women’s hockey clothing history.