Category: Sport

The team game of hockey, or ‘field hockey’, has been played in its modern form in British public schools, grammar schools and […]

The Isle of Man, a Crown Dependency, has hosted the world’s fastest and most dangerous road race for motorbikes since 1907. The […]

Britain’s most successful athlete, Sir Mo Farah, CBE, was born in Somaliland in 1983 but came to live in England when he […]

Sir Nick (Nicholas Alexander) Faldo was born in 1957 in Hertfordshire and is the most successful British golfer to date. He won […]

Horse racing is a sport largely enjoyed for its betting possibilities. It is subject to the regulations of the British Horseracing Association […]

The Wimbledon tennis championships take place in the first two weeks of July every year. They began in 1877 and only halted […]

After World War 2, there were numerous disused airfields and they were ideal for testing racing cars. As a result, in 1958 […]

Francis Morgan “Daley“ Thompson was a record-breaking decathlete in the 1980s. He was born in London in 1958 and won his first […]

The game of snooker was devised by a Colonel in the British Army whilst based in India in 1875. ‘Snooker’ was the […]

Graham Hill, OBE (1929-1975) became Formula 1 racing car champion in 1962 and 1968. His son, Damon Hill (1960-), followed in his […]

Sir Alastair Cook, CBE (1984-) was born in Gloucestershire. He retired from Test cricket with England in 2018, with a brilliant  record […]