A fashionable parade and a scene of sporting contests, St James’s Park was first enclosed by Henry VIII. Marjorie Sykes describes the history of the park, including how James I kept a menagerie and aviary there, to which Charles II added pelicans.
In the 1880s, writes Ronald Rees, an English community brought with it to Canada hunting, horse-racing, cricket, tennis and rugby.
David Rubinstein describes a change in social habits when the new bicycle replaced the old Penny Farthing.
The enduring legacy of the sport’s pioneers.
Tzykanion, or polo, formed part of the ritual of life at the court of the Emperors in Constantinople. Expertise on horseback, writes Anthony Bryer, was one of the requirements of Imperial dignity.
The great Olympian was born on September 12th, 1913
E.G. Dunning finds that traditional football was a game with few rules, played riotously through the streets and across country. The nineteenth century saw its evolution on the playing fields of the public schools into the two main forms we know today.
Mathew Lyons on why Horse Guards Parade was an appropriate location to host the Olympic beach volleyball.
Britain's Olympic success was the result of marrying science with sporting methodology. Can the same techniques be applied to history?
Each period has its heroes who inhabit the moment. Today we are living in the age of the sporting superstar.
