Priceless footage of football in tragic times
Get to know these colour videos of Jewish footballers in 1936 and 1944. Incredible primary sources of football in tragic times.
Historians at Football Clubs 2: Derby County
Derby County historian Andy Ellis shares how football and history and heritage come together in his work.
Oded Breda: exploring one’s past
Remembering one’s through creating an intergenerational project through football in Terezin
Paul Grüninger: The Quiet Hero
A football life and career truncated for the greater good
Three Presidents and the 1938 Racial Laws in Italy
How to study the impact of national law and policies on everyday life? This resource helps students investigate how the Racial Laws in Italy impacted sport.
Match of Inhumanity
Today in 1944 football was played in the concentration camp Tezerin. What does this propaganda footage tell us about the Holocaust?
My boyfriend, my husband, and my lover
Football was never a boys’ club: the story of a trailblazing woman in the stands.
Disappearing from football and the world
Analyse and connect historical sources to learn about Italian fascism and the history of Europe in late 1930s – early 1940s.
Referee in the Resistance
Dutch football referee Leo Horn, born in 1916, was a resistance fighter during the Second World War, all the while hiding his Jewish identity.
Basque in the USSR
A story of a Spanish footballer turned Communist leader, where football and history intertwine across borders.
