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Collection Stories

23rd Feb 2021

Object of The Week: Hope Powell portrait by Stanley Chow

This week’s Object of the Week is a portrait of Hope Powell by Manchester artist Stanley Chow. Tilly Johnson explores the career of one of English football’s most important figures.

16th Feb 2021

It’s not about results or multi-million pound salaries, it’s how football can change lives – Jane Bateman

Jane Bateman has developed football networks around the globe for more than 20 years leading The Football Association’s International Relations Team. But it’s delivering programmes around football and social change that she feels are the most rewarding.

12th Feb 2021

Object of the Week: Valentine’s Day card

Love is in the air (sort of) in our latest Object of the Week: a humorous old-timey Valentine’s Day card.

10th Feb 2021

Anita Asante: Meeting Obama, the Olympics, Arsenal glory, and the future…

Aston Villa and England’s Anita Asante reflects on highlights from her football career and what needs to be done to tackle discrimination in the game she loves.

3rd Feb 2021

Object of the Week: Manchester United signed menu card 5 February 1958

This dinner menu card from the Hotel Majestic in Belgrade is signed by the Manchester United team who would be struck by tragedy the next day.

27th Jan 2021

Object of the week: Bristol Rovers Gas Girls’ shirt

This stunning football shirt is both stylish and supports equality. Harriet Dean, on student placement with the museum, talks about this Gas Girls’ garment…

21st Jan 2021

Object of the week: John Motson’s sheepskin coat

It’s 30 years (December 1990) since John Motson appeared at Wycombe Wanderers’ Adams park battling snow gusts in his sheepskin coat. We look at the key piece of the legendary commentator’s winter wardrobe.

13th Jan 2021

Colin Bell: “The reluctant hero who was King of the Kippax”

Our curator Peter Holme writes about his hero – the late, great Colin Bell.

25th Nov 2020

Meeting Diego Maradona

Sporting Memories group member Tony Haggerty on the time he was lucky enough to meet football royalty, El Diego.

18th Nov 2020

“What Jack Charlton achieved with Ireland was incredible” – Gabriel Clarke

Finding Jack Charlton is a new film about an extraordinary man – an English World Cup winning legend who became an Irish hero. We speak to director Gabriel Clarke about the film, and the late, great Jack Charlton – a man revered on both sides of the Irish Sea.

4th Nov 2020

Object of the Week: Rachel Yankey’s England shirt

A dazzling winger with pace and skill, Rachel Yankey was the first professional female player registered in England – and was arguably one of the most successful.

28th Oct 2020

Object of the Week: Alistair Patrick-Heselton’s headguard

A promising footballer who went on to represent Team GB at the Paralympic Games, Alistair Patrick-Heselton’s story is one of perseverance and determination…

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