Trustee Opportunities at The Hockey Museum
Position: Charity TrusteeOrganisation: The Hockey MuseumLocation: UK, Surrey, WokingClosing date: 27 August 2021Job Type: Voluntary Are you an experienced professional looking for an opportunity to actively contribute to the development of a young, vibrant and rapidly expanding museum? The Hockey...
GB Squads Receive Honours Caps And Their Unique Player Numbers
It is a story that has been years in the making and started when The Hockey Museum began looking at how to collate accurate statistics for the sport. High up on the list was creating a definitive record of Great Britain international matches that would allow physical honours caps to...
Bridget Cannell: One Of Great Britain's First Women's Players Honoured
Bridget Cannell's daughter, Tracy French, and son, Mike Cannell, received their mother's honours cap from former Great Britain internationals Jan Burrows (former England captain, second left) and Mary Eckersall (former England & GB captain, far right). The Great Britain (GB) caps initiative – an ongoing project to recognize...
THM Reflected In The Mirror
The Hockey Museum (THM) enjoys a close and fruitful working relationship with Sporting Heritage, the subject-specialist network that supports the collection, preservation, access to and research of sporting collections in the UK. Arising from this, THM was recently offered the opportunity to feature in a national newspaper editorial promoting...
GB Honours Caps Awarded To Former Players
The culmination of The Hockey Museum’s (THM) project to create definitive playing records for Great Britain (GB) international hockey players matches will be the presentation of honours caps to every player with whom we can make contact. We can now state with confidence that 578 men and women have represented...
Re-Opening With New Exhibits
In very exciting news, The Hockey Museum (THM) is re-opening this month! We will be welcoming back our volunteers, socially distanced and safely, from the week commencing 17 May 2021 and returning to our regular public opening hours from the week of 21 June 2021 in line with the current...
Commemorating ANZAC Day 2021
In recent years, The Hockey Museum’s Hockey’s Military Stories (HMS) research project has become one of our more extensive activities. It came about because of feats of valour shown by hockey people, yet it goes much further than just wartime exploits and it also extends beyond Britain to include the...
Festival of Britain 1951: An Appeal
This year is the 70th anniversary of the Festival of Britain in 1951. This was an enormous, nationwide celebration of all things British. Yes, very jingoistic but it was only six years after the end of WW2, times were hard and spirits needed lifting. Events across the whole social spectrum...
Reliving The Wembley Magic: 70th Anniversary Special
Reliving the Wembley Magic is a panel discussion produced in partnership with Talk Hockey Radio to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first women's hockey match at Wembley Stadium in 1951. https://youtu.be/Jc1RfcR1SNY 3 March 2021 marks the 70th anniversary of the first England women’s hockey international at Wembley Stadium on 3...
THM Welcomes New Trustees
The Board of Trustees is delighted to announce that three new Trustees were appointed on 12th February 2021, to help further the work of The Hockey Museum (THM). Sophie-May Johnson Paul Harvey Tochi Panesar Sophie-May Johnson Sophie is currently...
Dr Katie Dodd MBE
The Hockey Museum (THM) is very proud to announce that its recent past Chair, Katie Dodd, has been awarded an MBE for services to hockey in the New Year’s Honours List. Katie Dodd in action for England against Wales at Wembley in 1981. Katie has been involved in hockey...
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