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Early women’s football films

The Dick, Kerr women’s football team. They were England’s unofficial team and raised a fortune for charity British Pathe has pulled together a set of 51 short newsreel films about female f… more →

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Early women's football films

chris holme wrote 3 months ago: The Dick, Kerr women’s football team. They were England’s unofficial team and raised a f … more →

Tags: History on the web, Case Studies, Football, digital history, Soccer, Football Association, east lothian, John Kerr, Women's Soccer

War turns into Peace - the 1914 Christmas Truce — 2 comments

chris holme wrote 5 months ago: British propaganda said the First World War would be over by Christmas 1914. It wasn’t. But peace of … more →

Tags: History on the web, digital history, Germany, Christmas, christmas truce, Imperial War Museum, Western Front (World War I), First World War, Weihnachten Waffenstillstand

Mountain Midwives - Queens of the Wild Frontier (part two) — 6 comments

chris holme wrote 5 months ago: All lined up – FNS nurse midwives on parade. The Queens of the Wild Frontier – Courtesy … more →

Tags: History on the web, Medical and Nursing, digital history, Nursing, mary breckinridge, Frontier Nursing Service, Highlands and Islands Medical Service, Midwifery, Marvin Breckinridge

Bright spots for digital history

chris holme wrote 8 months ago: Old St Kilda through the prism of a digital camera. Picture courtesy of RCAHMS (This post appeared f … more →

Tags: History on the web, Case Studies, Football, digital history, Scotland, national archives of scotland, British Library, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monument, Panamint Cinema

No doves in Dovecot and Bayeux not a tapestry - shock — 2 comments

chris holme wrote 9 months ago: A new exhibition in Edinburgh celebrates the centenary of the Dovecot tapestry weavers. The idea of … more →

Tags: History on the web, Edinburgh, dovecot, Bayeux Tapestry, National Records of Scotland, st james centre, John Bellany, David Hockney, Prestonpans Tapestry

CoI RIP, but Joe and Petunia live on

chris holme wrote 11 months ago: The Central Office of Information (CoI) passed away on March 31 – virtually unnoticed. Central Offic … more →

Tags: History on the web, central office of information, Peter Hawkins, Wendy Craig, ministry of information, joe and petunia, richard massingham

The Hebrides and Goebbels — 4 comments

chris holme wrote 1 year ago: This film from the new British Council archive is fascinating in many ways. It’s visually sump … more →

Tags: History on the web, Hebrides, Western Isles, goebbels, Film Archive, Kay Mander, Gaelic, Technicolor

A treasure chest of oral histories — 1 comment

chris holme wrote 1 year ago: Calum Maclean recording Angus Maclellan and Mrs Neil Campbell at Frobost, South Uist - Image via Wik … more →

Tags: History on the web, Case Studies, digital history, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, school of scottish studies, Calum Maclean, Hamish Henderson, Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger

The Women of Royaumont - a unique film — 3 comments

chris holme wrote 1 year ago: Click on image to view the film. Image courtesy of Spartacus This gem from the Scottish Screen Archi … more →

Tags: History on the web, Medical and Nursing, digital history, Women's History, Norah Neilson Gray, Edith Cavell, World War I, german, Elsie Inglis

Just another football post — 1 comment

chris holme wrote 1 year ago: Manchester United in 1905/06 Image via Wikipedia Football has always been about finding the net. And … more →

Tags: History on the web, Football, digital history, football-history, Social History, Women's History, Useful websites

Who was the real RS McColl? — 4 comments

chris holme wrote 1 year ago: Image via Wikipedia Click on the image to view "A Link with the Past" from British Pathe A … more →

Tags: History on the web, Football, Scotland, rs mccoll, Robert Smyth McColl, Wembley Wizards, celtic park, Queen's Park, Toffee Bob

USA takes on the Irish Free State

chris holme wrote 1 year ago: Click on image to view "American Footballers" from http://www.britishpathe.com This is the … more →

Tags: History on the web, Football, united states, Dalymount park, Irish Free State, Rugby union at the Summer Olympics, 1924 summer olympics, USA, Olympic rugby champions

Celtic FC take on the Irish Free State in 1924 — 6 comments

chris holme wrote 1 year ago: Click on the image to view the clip - "A Record Crowd" from http://www.britishpathe.com No … more →

Tags: History on the web, Football, digital history, Northern Ireland, Irish Football Association, Dalymount park, Irish Free State, gaelic athletic association, Celtic F.C.

Probably the best company history website in the world?

chris holme wrote 1 year ago: Brewer Carlsberg is currently celebrating 200 years since the birth of its founder JC Jacobsen. But … more →

Tags: History on the web, Case Studies, Business history, digital history, winston churchill, Beer, JC Jacobsen; lager; Louis Pasteur, carslberg, pH scale

An inspiring antidote to student rejection — 1 comment

chris holme wrote 1 year ago: David in Oxford Thousands of British teenagers will get bad news this month. The late David Nyhan wr … more →

Tags: History on the web, David Nyhan, Boston Globe, wbur, Boston University, college rejection letter

The man who made the first x-ray movie — 2 comments

chris holme wrote 1 year ago: It is quite astonishing that in 1896  someone was already making a movie of an x-ray. Even more rema … more →

Tags: glasgow, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Wilhelm Rontgen, John MacIntyre, Thomas Edison, Arthur Schuster, Joseph Conrad, Glasgow University, X-Ray


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