by Matthew Wood | Sep 11, 2018 | News
A weekly newspaper which was entitled “Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle” provides athletics historians with the most detailed accounts of the races run by professionals during the years of its publication, from 1822 to 1886. It was founded by Robert Bell,...
by Robbie | Dec 31, 2017 | News
Amateur athletics rapidly developed in the second half of the 19th Century in the North of England as factory-workers and the emerging middle classes sought respite on their Saturday afternoons off from their jobs in the throes of the Industrial Revolution....
by Robbie | Sep 22, 2017 | News
Prodigious teenage milers have long figured in the development of the event in Britain, though I wonder how many “Northern Athletics” followers could immediately call to mind the fact that the current UK junior record stands not to the credit of Messrs Coe, Cram or...
