Today's #Archive30 theme of #SportArchives is the perfect opportunity for us to introduce our brand new guide to our fantastic #SportingHeritage collections which have the archives of Commonwealth Games Scotland at their core.
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Opening event for student curated exhibition 'The Friendly Games', University of Stirling Library, 7 April 2026.
Our exhibition interpretation & design students opened their fantastic #CommonwealthGames archive display with a lovely event in the library last night. Find out more on their insta page: www.instagram.com/uos_thefrien...
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Promotional banner for the My Sporting Heritage webinar. Title: "Webinar on educational games about European sporting heritage – How to design a digital escape game and a geocaching-style game combining sport and culture?" Date: 28 April 2026 at 3:30 PM, duration 1 hour, online conference in English. The programme includes 4 steps: (1) Presentation of the My Sporting Heritage project, (2) Presentation of the escape game, (3) Presentation of geocaching, (4) Questions and answers. Partners logos: Funded by the European Union, Musée National du Sport, Michael Culture Association, University of Amsterdam (UvA), Sport and Citizenship, Sport et Citoyenneté, ECROS – European Cultural Route of Sport, Radiona Makerspace. Background shows a sprinting athlete on a blue-toned track, with green graphic wave elements.
🏟️ How can educational games bring European sporting heritage to life?
Join our free webinar as part of the 'My Sporting Heritage' project on April 28 at 3:30 PM CEST: digital escape games, geocaching & more!
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#SportingHeritage #ErasmusPlus
Poster advertising talk by the photographer Stuart Roy Clarke at the University of Stirling on 9 April 2026. Photograph 'Three Generations Arbroath at Bo'Ness, 2014', by Stuart Roy Clarke.
Celebrating Scottish Football Fandom
Talk by Stuart Roy Clarke (The Homes of Football)
Thursday 9 April, 11 am, Pathfoot D3, University of Stirling
Supporting Scotland's #SportingHeritage
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#CultureOnStirCampus
Added a couple more locations, both in #Newport, to my map of Welsh civic #sportingheritage:
🔶@wallsbypaul.bsky.social's mural of Mica Moore at the Harlequin roundabout
🔶 the housing estate that carries the name of Newport County's former Somerton Park home
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If we don’t know your collection exists, we can’t advocate for it.
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Sessions can be joined individually, and recordings will be available via the Sporting Heritage YouTube channel.
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Secure your free place 👉 tinyurl.com/58s9j54z
Sessions can be joined individually, and recordings will be available via the Sporting Heritage YouTube channel.
#sportingheritage
Know a winter sport website or blog that should be preserved? It takes less than five minutes to nominate. See the call from Helena Byrne at the British Library
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#sportingheritage #winterolympics #SportAndFashion
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Sessions can be joined individually, and recordings will be available via the Sporting Heritage YouTube channel.
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Secure your free place 👉 tinyurl.com/58s9j54z
Sessions can be joined individually, and recordings will be available via the Sporting Heritage YouTube channel.
#sportingheritage
With the Winter Games behind us and the Paralympic Games in motion, we’re also beginning to think ahead to Sport & Fashion Month in June. Winter sport offers a fascinating lens on design and performance. #sportingheritage #sportandfashion #wintersport
After their match against Warrington, the 1952 Kangaroo tourists were entertained at the Masonic Hall. The following day they were taken to Morecambe to see the illuminations. #sportingheritage #rugbyleague
We've created a new guide to our #SportingHeritage collections which cover everything from Olympic finals to keep fit classes:
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Image Credit: Ballymoney Museum
#ballymoneymuseum #sportshistory #sportingheritage
With the #SixNations returning this weekend its a good time to revisit this update from our Bill McLaren digitisation project on the beauty and value of #Rugby programmes:
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#SportingHeritage #StirScanStudio
This student-led event brings together researchers, archivists and practitioners.
Call for Papers deadline: 16 March.
Find out more: tinyurl.com/yppuc68a
#SportAndFashion #SportingHeritage
🔗 Discover the Awards Hall of Fame: tinyurl.com/yj8efyhy
#sportingheritage #museumofwelshcricket #shawards
So far, 26 volunteers have given 1,250+ hours, digitising and cataloguing 1,500+ items and recording 15+ hours of oral histories, helping safeguard the collection for future generations. 🔗 Discover the Awards Hall of Fame: tinyurl.com/yj8efyhy
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The posters brought a splash of sporting colour wherever they were displayed! #SportingHeritage #Glasgow2026 #CommonwealthGames
Photograph showing promotional material for the 1970 Commonwealth Games (Douglas Brown Collection, Commonwealth Games Scotland Archive, University of Stirling Archives).
Photograph showing promotional material for the 1970 Commonwealth Games (Douglas Brown Collection, Commonwealth Games Scotland Archive, University of Stirling Archives).
Love these photos from our #TeamScotland Archive showing examples of how some of the posters in our collection were used to promote the #CommonwealthGames in #Edinburgh in 1970
#SportingHeritage #Glasgow2026
On our website, we feature a series of articles by Bill Williams from the online magazine Playing Pasts, exploring Jessop’s school and early career, his greatest moment, and the illness that ended it all.
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#England #Cricket #crickethistory #sportingheritage
t a time of division, Looking Back brings people together through shared passion, promoting connection, identity and harmony. Discover the Hall of Fame: tinyurl.com/yj8efyhy #sportingheritage #lookingbackcic #shawards
A white background with an orange ring and the green IIPC log sitting on the right side of the ring. In the the centre of the ring in green text reads - IIPC Collaborative Collections #IIPC-CDG
IIPC CDG won the Celebrating Digital Innovation in Sporting Heritage Award 2025 for their preservation of Olympic & Paralympic Games. @sportingheritage.bsky.social @netpreserve.bsky.social
Find out more here: link.bl.uk/vyu
#WebArchiving #SportingHeritage #IIPC-CDG #Olympics #Paralympics
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Flags of competing nations at the 1982 Commonwealth Games, Brisbane. Australia (ref. CG/2/12/2/24).
On another grey, dreich day it was nice to work with some colourful content when cataloguing some new additions to our #SportingHeritage collections. #FunWithFlags
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With thanks to the Welsh Government for supporting this programme.
#collectionaudit#welshheritage #sportingheritage
Secure your free place 👉 tinyurl.com/58s9j54z
With thanks to the Welsh Government for supporting this programme.
#collectionaudit#welshheritage #sportingheritage
Secure your free place 👉 tinyurl.com/58s9j54z
With thanks to the Welsh Government for supporting this programme.
#collectionaudit#welshheritage #sportingheritage
Discover the Sporting Heritage Awards Hall of Fame: tinyurl.com/yj8efyhy.
#sportingheritage #roundersengland #shawards
