This week we have invited Lois Stone to write a piece for the Hidden Histories blog. Lois Stone is a PhD student at the University of Manchester. Based in the archaeology department, their work examines how the history and heritage of the trans community is being interpreted within British museums. You can reach out about…
Final Whistle from the Hidden History Team
The Arts Council funded ‘Unlocking the Hidden History of Women’s Football’ project draws to a close this week. The project has been invaluable for our understanding and appreciation of the history of the women’s game and the National Football Museum has plans to better integrate the collected stories into displays, activities and research going forward….
50 Years of Women’s Football in Switzerland
The Hidden History project has shown us how hard women have had to fight for equality in English Football. But this was also the case in countries across the world where prejudice stood in the way of the women’s game. This week we hand over to Saro Pepe Fischer from the Football Club Zurich Museum,…
Player Post: Spurs Ladies’ Bianca Baptiste
Continuing with our series of Player Posts this week, we meet Bianca Baptiste of Spurs Ladies, team mate of Jenna Schillaci who featured in a previous blog post. Both women speak about the growth of the team and how it feels to be a real part of the club and to train at Tottenham Hotspur…
‘Giving a voice to people whose histories have not been written’; Gary James and Manchester City Ladies FC
Here is the second lecture from our conference series, featuring full-length videos from the Upfront and Onside Women’s Football Conference, held at the National Football Museum in March this year. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to watch the video. Image credit: Gary James Dr Gary James, is a sports historian, writer, and…
Player Post: Spurs Ladies’ captain Jenna Schillaci
Jenna Schillaci is captain of Tottenham Hotspur Ladies Football Club where she has played for the past 10 years. This week she tells us about her footballing history and shares some advice for girls trying to get into the game. How did you first get into football? I grew up with two brothers so football…
Pulling the Strings: 30 years of women in leadership in men’s professional football in England
This week we welcome Amée Gill as a guest blogger. Amée is a doctoral researcher at Durham University whose research, Women in a ‘Man’s World’, is exploring women’s experiences of working in leadership positions in men’s professional football through oral history interviews and archival work at the National Football Museum. The new football season is…
Loan Announcement: Medal from Women’s Football Pioneer Carol Thomas
Last week we were delighted to welcome Carol Thomas back to the National Football Museum to discuss her inspirational football career. Carol’s first competitive game was played with BOCM Ladies in 1966 when she was just 11. She worked her way up rapidly through the ranks, appearing for Reckitts Ladies, Hull Brewery Ladies and the…
Shots of history: Finding the women in the photographs
The women’s football collection is bursting with wonderful photographs spanning the history of the game. We have some fabulous black and white images from the early 20th century, as well as contemporary team photographs and action shots from World Cup games – some of which are now being exhibited in an online exhibition curated by…
What’s in your cupboard? Donating to the women’s football collection
The women’s football collection at the National Football Museum is incredibly varied, and a significant amount of it has come from players, clubs and fans who have donated their own objects to us. This week we are delighted to announce that we have a brand new object that has been kindly donated by the Liverpool…
Unlocking the hidden history of women's football 