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Sporting reunions, contemporary collections and collective biographies: a case study Harry Batt’s ’71 England Team
Williams, Jean Compton, Joanna Scarlett, Belinda
Williams, Jean
Compton, Joanna
Scarlett, Belinda
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2019-03-27
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As befits its status as the world’s most popular team sport, football has fared better than most other sports and disciplines in its coverage of academic titles. In the twenty first century, increasingly public sites of soccer have also made women and girls contribution to football more easily available to wider audiences. From 2016-2018, an eighteen-month Arts Council England funded project, delivered by the National Football Museum, researched and re-interpreted its women’s football collection. The Chris Ungar collection was purchased in 2015 from a private collector and covered the women’s game internationally from the late nineteenth century to 2015. The documentation process gave curatorial and academic staff the time to explore and research the material, making connections between objects and giving a revised focus to future collection policies. Documentation was the essential first step in opening up a collection for public engagement and academic research. This now forms part of the National Football Museum’s permanent collection given designated collection status by the Arts Council in 2014. This recognises the National Football Museum’s collection as one of outstanding resonance, national significance and quality.
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Jean Williams, Joanna Compton & Belinda Scarlett (2019) Sporting reunions, contemporary collections and collective biographies: a case study of Harry Batt’s 1971 England team, Sport in History, 39(2), pp. 229-250. DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2019.1592771
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1746-0263