Online Resources & Archives

The following is a list of online sites and archives which may help with your research or act as a starting point for further investigation. All of the resources cited, including the newspaper archives, are free to access. 

Digital Resources

LA84 Foundation Sports Library & Digital Collection

H. J. Lutcher Stark Centre for Physical Culture & Sports

Research & find | KB, National Library of the Netherlands

Early Women's Football

Sports: Archives and Book Collections - University of Liverpool

Rugby School Birthplace of the Game

Sport history and digital archives in practice (swan.ac.uk)

History & Exhibits | Simmons University Digital Archives

Boxing Archives - Sporting Heritage

Sport History Collections | Institute of Historical Research

Collections Archives - Sporting Heritage

New Books in Sports

Woodrow Wilson Center Sport in the Cold War

Women's Cricket History

 

Newspaper Archives

Diario de Liboa (Portugal)

Delpher Dutch Newspaper Archive

Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (Germany)

Google News Archive Search

Isle of Man Newspapers

Library of Congress (USA)

National Library of Scotland

Papers Past (New Zealand)

Retro News (France)

Trove (Australia)

Welsh Newspapers - Home

 

Sports Studies Organisations

American Studies Association Sports Studies Caucusucus

Australian Sports History

Celebrating sport heritage with Europeana Sport

Cricket History

International Association for the Philosophy of Sport

International Society of Olympic Historians

Our Netball History

The story of swimming – Outdoor Swimming Society Outdoor Swimming Society

Society for American Baseball Research

 

This compilation is by no means a comprehensive list of sources but if you know of any resources that should be included on this page then please contact:

Stuart Gibbs stuimage@googlemail.com

Website/Online Presence representative for the Board of Trustees.