The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
It is sometimes assumed in the collective memory that football in England ceased to be played with the suspension of the leagues at the end of the 1914/15 season but as Alexander Jackson points out in his highly readable account of the game during the First World War...
Women's Football and the First World War December 5 2021 marks the 100-year anniversary of women’s football being effectively banned by the FA and it’s progress set back by decades. The ban was finally formally lifted 50 years later in 1971. Although there had been a...
Julian Corbett was born in 1854 and after becoming a barrister in 1877 he practised law until 1882. At that point he turned to writing as a career beginning with historical fiction often with a maritime theme. That led on to commissions to write a couple of...
Appointment in Tehran is the second book in James Stejskal’s Snake Eater Chronicle series of novels which features a large cast of characters and despite the fact it doesn’t have a main protagonist to follow but several it still manages to be deeply engrossing. That...
