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The Oxford boat on the Thames during first ever Boat Race between between the Oxford and Cambridge university boat clubs, 1829.
Victorian

Oxford v Cambridge: A history of the boat race

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General Modern

Elitism in cricket: a history

Hillsborough Disaster floral tributes
20th Century

A brief history of the Hillsborough disaster and justice campaigner Anne Williams

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A statue in Kiev showing a Ukrainian player defeating a Third Reich eagle symbol at the Start stadium's entrance
Second World War

Q&A Did Nazis guards really play a ‘death match’ against a Ukrainian football team?

Photo of a man on a penny-farthing
Victorian

Q&A How dangerous was the penny-farthing?

With the Olympics underway in Tokyo, Chris Harding looks back at 1964 – the last time Japan hosted the competition. (Image by Getty Images)
20th Century

How the 1964 Tokyo Olympics redefined Japan

Crown Prince Olav on his ice yacht (Getty Images) 
20th Century

From Hollywood to war heroes: 10 Olympians who were more famous outside sport

The first modern Olympics at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens
Victorian

The first modern Olympics: what happened at the 1896 games?

The Three Lions crest. A trio of lions has appeared on the arms of every English (and British) monarch since the late 12th century, and has been flown as a battle standard on English soil and abroad. (Photo by Marc Atkins/Offside/Getty Images)
Medieval

Q&A Why are there three lions on the shirts of the English football team?

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A depiction of athletes in the torch race, ancient Olympics
Ancient Greece

What were the ancient Olympics like? Take a visit to the Games of 436 BC

Wood engraving from The Graphic magazine features an illustration of a young man running with the ball during a football match on a grassy field, late 19th century. (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)
Victorian

5 facts about the history of football

A scene from an early rugby union game
Victorian

The history of rugby: when was the sport invented?

British from the 11th Brigade 4th division and German soldiers at Ploegsteert in Belgium on Christmas Day 1914. (Photo by The Art Archive/Alamy)
First World War

Did the First World War Christmas truce football match really happen?

Tom Cribb lands a punch on Tom Molineaux while Molineaux's trainer, Bill Richmond, looks on. Molineaux got the upper hand in the pair's first fight – which ended in controversy when a mob stormed the ring – but was defeated in this, the 1811 rematch. (Edward Gooch/Edward Gooch/Getty Images)
Georgian

The ‘Black Terror’: the story of Britain’s first black sports star

A view of Mount Everest
20th Century

Mystery on Everest: did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit in 1924?

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