The Surface: New Documentary Celebrating 45 Years Of Hockey Transformation
Click the image to watch the film. The Hockey Museum (THM) is pleased to be have been a contributor to The Surface, a new hockey documentary from Level Films. It charts hockey’s artificial turf transformation from grass players to turf-natives. As the only museum of hockey, we feel...
Selfless achiever Jean Arnold awarded British Empire Medal
Jean Arnold receives the British Empire Medal for services to hockey and education. On 5 November 2021, Jean Arnold received the British Empire Medal for services to hockey and education from Mark Blundell, Lieutenant of Merseyside, at a ceremony at Liverpool Town Hall. She...
Hockey Genealogy: How Digitisation Discovered The Jaffa King
John Scrini retired this year after numerous years serving Lancashire Hockey Association and as the President of the North Hockey Association. One of John’s last acts was to donate Lancashire HA minutes dating back to 1895 to The Hockey Museum. In his final address at the North’s final Annual General...
THM Secures A Place In MuseumWIDE Equality, Diversity And Inclusion Initiative
The Hockey Museum (THM) is delighted to announce its participation in MuseumWIDE, a new training programme from South East Museum Development. It will guide THM on its journey to become more welcoming, inclusive, diverse and equitable, building on the values and strengths already evident in hockey...
Poignant Presentations For 1966 Great Britain Squad
Friday 22 October 2021 at The Hockey Museum, Woking The Great Britain hockey team that toured Australia in 1966 lookingresplendent in their newly awarded honours caps 55 years later. Standing (left to right): Geoff Nott, Mike Crowe, Richard Oliver, Tony Ekins,Tim Lawson, Keith Sinclair, Colin Whalley, Jeremy Barham, Austin Savage.Seated...
Hockey Heritage Blue Plaques Now Available
October 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of the start of modern hockey. In the intervening century and one half, many momentous happenings have occurred, a lot of which are worthy of being recorded with a blue heritage plaque. The Hockey Museum is now able to offer clubs, schools, universities,...
Volunteer Diaries: Researching The USFHA Tour To The UK In 1924
My name is Ana Brown. I am a third year Modern History student at Royal Holloway University, hoping to go into a career in museums. Since August I have been volunteering at The Hockey Museum (THM) to gain some experience and insight into the field. I have been assisting Dr...
Searching for The Eagle: The Official Magazine Of The US Field Hockey Association
For many people, mention of The Eagle magazine will bring back memories of the boys all-action comic from the 1950s & ’60s. But for a generation of women hockey players in America, The Eagle was the official magazine that covered hockey in the USA through the middle part of the 20th...
GB Cap Presentations To 1965 Great Britain & Ireland Touring Team Members
Friday 15 October 2021 at Cottrell Park Golf Resort, Cardiff The Great Britain & Ireland Touring Team to the USA in 1965 were awarded theirGreat Britain honours caps at a presentation dinner in Cardiff on 15.10.2021. In the left photograph:Back row: Valerie Crombie (nee...
Update On Great Britain Honours Cap Awards And The 100th Cap
Regular visitors to The Hockey Museum (THM) website or our Hockey Shorts emails (click here to sign up) will be aware of the very active project to present honours caps to current and former Great Britain (GB) players or, if deceased, their families. The project arose from our work to...
The End Of An Era For The London League
A framed presentation of hockey ties from each of the member clubsof the London Hockey League, presented to Peter Boizot. This weekend, Sunday the 12 September, sees the last act in the history of the London League, the oldest men's league in England. Formed in 1969, it has...
Letters Know Your Stories Of Hockey Festivals
The Hockey Museum's hockey festivals study is progressing very well. We have compiled a list of all known festivals which includes the only three still held at Easter: Torbay, Skegness and Blackpool. All three will feature in a book on the history, development and sad demise of the hockey festival....
Abstract Expressionist Hockey?
The Hockey Museum (THM) has acquired four framed pieces of artificial Poligras turf from hockey pitch manufacturers Polytan. Each originates from a different Olympic Games: Sydney 2000 Beijing 2008 London 2012 Rio 2016 Can you work out which is which? Answers are at the bottom of this article. They look like...
GB Tokyo Olympic Hockey Research
This July we have thrown the collective weight of our wonderful volunteer team at an Olympic research project in support of Great Britain Hockey. Across 35 days, 22 volunteers and staff researched and collated historical match statistics, photographs and anecdotal information. This related to each opponent nation that GB’s men’s...
Trustee Opportunities at The Hockey Museum
Position: Charity TrusteeOrganisation: The Hockey MuseumLocation: UK, Surrey, WokingClosing date: 27 August 2021Job Type: Voluntary Are you an experienced professional looking for an opportunity to actively contribute to the development of a young, vibrant and rapidly expanding museum? The Hockey...
GB Squads Receive Honours Caps And Their Unique Player Numbers
It is a story that has been years in the making and started when The Hockey Museum began looking at how to collate accurate statistics for the sport. High up on the list was creating a definitive record of Great Britain international matches that would allow physical honours caps to...
Bridget Cannell: One Of Great Britain's First Women's Players Honoured
Bridget Cannell's daughter, Tracy French, and son, Mike Cannell, received their mother's honours cap from former Great Britain internationals Jan Burrows (former England captain, second left) and Mary Eckersall (former England & GB captain, far right). The Great Britain (GB) caps initiative – an ongoing project to recognize...
THM Reflected In The Mirror
The Hockey Museum (THM) enjoys a close and fruitful working relationship with Sporting Heritage, the subject-specialist network that supports the collection, preservation, access to and research of sporting collections in the UK. Arising from this, THM was recently offered the opportunity to feature in a national newspaper editorial promoting...
GB Honours Caps Awarded To Former Players
The culmination of The Hockey Museum’s (THM) project to create definitive playing records for Great Britain (GB) international hockey players matches will be the presentation of honours caps to every player with whom we can make contact. We can now state with confidence that 578 men and women have represented...
Re-Opening With New Exhibits
In very exciting news, The Hockey Museum (THM) is re-opening this month! We will be welcoming back our volunteers, socially distanced and safely, from the week commencing 17 May 2021 and returning to our regular public opening hours from the week of 21 June 2021 in line with the current...
Commemorating ANZAC Day 2021
In recent years, The Hockey Museum’s Hockey’s Military Stories (HMS) research project has become one of our more extensive activities. It came about because of feats of valour shown by hockey people, yet it goes much further than just wartime exploits and it also extends beyond Britain to include the...
Festival of Britain 1951: An Appeal
This year is the 70th anniversary of the Festival of Britain in 1951. This was an enormous, nationwide celebration of all things British. Yes, very jingoistic but it was only six years after the end of WW2, times were hard and spirits needed lifting. Events across the whole social spectrum...
Reliving The Wembley Magic: 70th Anniversary Special
Reliving the Wembley Magic is a panel discussion produced in partnership with Talk Hockey Radio to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first women's hockey match at Wembley Stadium in 1951. https://youtu.be/Jc1RfcR1SNY 3 March 2021 marks the 70th anniversary of the first England women’s hockey international at Wembley Stadium on 3...
THM Welcomes New Trustees
The Board of Trustees is delighted to announce that three new Trustees were appointed on 12th February 2021, to help further the work of The Hockey Museum (THM). Sophie-May Johnson Paul Harvey Tochi Panesar Sophie-May Johnson Sophie is currently...
Dr Katie Dodd MBE
The Hockey Museum (THM) is very proud to announce that its recent past Chair, Katie Dodd, has been awarded an MBE for services to hockey in the New Year’s Honours List. Katie Dodd in action for England against Wales at Wembley in 1981. Katie has been involved in hockey...
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