Category: Sport

Netball has its roots in women’s basketball from the USA, but it developed to suit the inclinations and dress code of young […]

Croquet originated in the British Isles and was showcased at London’s 1851 Great Exhibition by John Jaques (1820-90). The family firm, Jaques […]

A larger-than-life personality, Lord Ian Botham, OBE, nicknamed ‘Beefy’, is an English cricketing hero who continued to be in the public eye […]

Darts is thought to have originated in the 1500s as an indoor version of archery, hence the term ‘arrows’ for the pointed, […]

Football is the most popular sport in the UK to play and watch. It began in the English public schools along with […]

Real tennis, or just ‘tennis’ to its aficionados, came long before lawn tennis, but is a rather niche sport today. It is […]

The origins of golf lie in fifteenth-century Scotland, particularly the St. Andrews and Edinburgh areas. It is thought that ‘golf’ was an […]

Cowes Week takes place every year at the beginning of August and is based at the small port of Cowes on the […]

Aside from being Cockney rhyming slang for ‘face’, the Boat Race is a traditional sporting competition between the Oxford University Boat Club […]

This is a sport, honestly. The ordinary welly, or Wellington boot, has predecessors going back to the Duke of Wellington’s specially commissioned […]

The sport of water skiing was invented in 1922 in the USA and Americans have certainly been dominant in the rankings ever […]

Robert Frederick Chelsea (Bobby) Moore (1941-93) was born in Essex during a German bombing raid and was to become one of England’s best […]