Outdoor swimming in urban Glasgow: past, present and potential future. Happy to see my research on historic swimming in the Clyde in this great article in The Glasgow Bell www.glasgowbell.co.uk/swimming-gla...
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Looking forward to a new year of swimming history.... And some actual swimming, at historic baths in Glasgow and beyond! #Swimming #SportingHistory #SportingHeritage #SwimmingHistory #Glasgow
Happy birthday to Historic Pools of Britain, 10 years old today, also Sporting Heritage Day @sportingheritage historicpools.org.uk We're happy to be part of Historic Pools and sorry we couldn't make it to today's event at City Baths Newcastle. Have a great day! #NSHD #SwimmingHistory #SportHistory
Got an idea for your online celebration? We'd love to hear it. Let's bring sporting heritage to life, wherever you are in the UK.
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🏊♀️ In 1980, South African swimmer Karen Muir became one of the youngest inductees into the International Swimming Hall of Fame—at just 27. She had set 15 world records before age 18, despite being barred from Olympic competition due to apartheid. #SwimmingHistory #Trailblazer
Vale Linda McGill (1945–2025) 🏊♂️
Gold medallist. Record breaker. Rule defier.
Suspended after marching in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics against official orders, McGill went on to become the first Australian to swim the English Channel, setting a women’s record in 1967.
#WomenInSport #SwimmingHistory
Discover why swimmers wore wool! #SwimmingHistory #FunFact #WoolenSwimsuits
American swimmer Gretchen Walsh sets record at 2024 U.S. Olympic Swim Trials with a stunning 55.18 sec performance in the semifinals! 🏊♀️🌟 #SwimmingHistory https://fefd.link/Syb3U
🏊♂️ Thorpe vs. Van den Hoogenband — a rivalry that redefined Olympic swimming! Relive the iconic 200m freestyle clash in our latest blog, featuring video, podcast & transcript.
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#OlympicLegends #SwimmingHistory #SportingLore #IanThorpe #Sydney2000
Cover of the book 'Haunts of the Black Masseur' by Charles Sprawson with a chocolate brownie and some strawberries.
Excited to be en route to London town to see Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style @designmuseum.bsky.social ! And getting in the mood with some essential reading + listening to curator Amber Butchart's Making a Splash podcast. #SwimmingHistory #DesignHistory #FashionHistory #lidos #SwimmingPools
group of 1920s bathers in the water
Cliftonville bathers in the 1920s, a 'lady dipper' is on the far right. By now men and women could bathe together. From North Thanet Coast by Alan Kay #margate #seaswim #swimminghistory #thanetcoast
