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Priceless footage of football in tragic times

Priceless footage of football in tragic times

Apr 6, 2022 | Stories

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

Historians at Football Clubs 2: Derby County

Apr 3, 2022 | Stories

Derby County historian Andy Ellis shares how football and history and heritage come together in his work.

Oded Breda: exploring one’s past

Oded Breda: exploring one’s past

Mar 30, 2022 | Lives

Remembering one’s through creating an intergenerational project through football in Terezin

Paul Grüninger: The Quiet Hero

Paul Grüninger: The Quiet Hero

Mar 10, 2022 | Lives

A football life and career truncated for the greater good

Three Presidents and the 1938 Racial Laws in Italy

Three Presidents and the 1938 Racial Laws in Italy

Nov 28, 2021 | Learning Activities

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

Match of Inhumanity

Sep 11, 2021 | On This Day, Stories

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

My boyfriend, my husband, and my lover

Apr 30, 2021 | Stories

Football was never a boys’ club: the story of a trailblazing woman in the stands.

Disappearing from football and the world

Disappearing from football and the world

Jan 24, 2021 | Learning Activities

Analyse and connect historical sources to learn about Italian fascism and the history of Europe in late 1930s – early 1940s.

Referee in the Resistance

Referee in the Resistance

Nov 25, 2020 | On This Day, Stories

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

Basque in the USSR

Nov 18, 2020 | On This Day, Stories

A story of a Spanish footballer turned Communist leader, where football and history intertwine across borders.

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