Tag: history
Revealed: How France took Great Britain on the tiles ahead of...
France attempted to get their cross channel opponents Great Britain drunk in Antwerp the night before the men's gold medal match at the 1920...
Stanley Shoveller: The greatest English hockey player ever?
By Mike Haymonds | The Hockey Museum
This is potentially a very subjective claim but can anyone put forward a stronger case than this one...
The first floodlit hockey international
The Hockey Museum continues to tap into its vast collection of history to bring you the best stories
The first floodlit international hockey match took...
Dhyan Chand: ‘The undisputed magician of world hockey’
By Mike Haymonds | The Hockey Museum
Our article in a previous The Hockey Paper edition described Stanley Shoveller as the greatest ever English hockey player. There...
Club hockey file: Birmingham and Yardley merge for city future
In our Club File series we've heard from Gloucester City on momentum after pandemic, Eastcote on insurance issues, Wakefield HC on how the volunteer-run club is...
Hockey’s own Valerie Robinson could have been a Busby Babe
The Hockey Museum's Mike Haymonds looks at the career of one of England's finest ever hockey players
If Stanley Shoveller, the only Englishman to win...
Buffaloes hockey herd set to wait before 70th Easter running at...
Before lockdown, Ed Handley gave the lowdown on colourful touring side Buffaloes HC ahead of what would have been the 70th Torbay Festival at...
Welsh hockey fans continue history research in landmark month
By Richard Bright
Challenges come in all shapes and sizes - and in the case of two hockey enthusiasts we have one which will be...
BACK IN TIME: When England hammered Belgium 8-2 and won 2009...
Claire Middleton recalls missing out on England Hockey's last major trophy a decade ago
The 2009 EuroHockey Championships left me seriously peed off.
A decade or...
Third time lucky for Hampstead hockey’s own Tavern?
By The History Museum's Mike Haymonds
Many London area hockey people will remember with affection the home that Hampstead & Westminster HC created for themselves...
