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Some would say history is just one damned thing after the other, that it should be put to rest in the past and that bygones should be bygones.
These people are not necessarily wrong, but in an ever-complex world of globalised societies and rising exclusivist identity-politics, the stories we tell ourselves about the past help us define ourselves in the present and orient toward an unpredictable future.
Football
Some would say football is nothing more than 22 people chasing a ball around a pitch for 90 minutes.
Also those people are not necessarily wrong, but history is made up of whatever people have come to value, and certainly football – a game played and watched by billions for over 100 years – seems highly valued.
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Pass, Shoot, Goal! Football in the Jazz Age – a review
A loving fan and musician put together his two passions and created this compilation of tunes from the Jazz Age.
Pass, Shoot, Goal! Football in the Jazz Age – a review
A loving fan and musician put together his two passions and created this compilation of tunes from the Jazz Age.
Mo Salah’s Song to Integration
Prayer days on stadiums, faith rooms and inclusive chants: here is how English football is adapting to a changing world.
Engage young people with football history
Engage young people through Football Makes History’s own Guidebook and Toolkit for promoting social inclusion in formal education or Non-formal settings
21 short stories of football in Amsterdam
Telling the history of a city through football stories: a celebration of Amsterdam.
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“Nettie Honeyball”: Pioneer of women’s game
“Nettie” was a pioneer of women’s football. Her story is about diversity, equality and education.
Football, Colonialism, and Migration
How did football evolve over time in both the Congo and Belgium? How has football (environments) been used beyond playing a sport? This is a learning activity to help students explore these topics.
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Angel City FC: An in-vitro football sensation
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May in Football
What moments in football history have we highlighted in the last month? How do they provide us with historical mirrors to the present?
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April in Football
What moments in football history have we highlighted in the last month? How do they provide us with historical mirrors to the present?
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March in Football
What moments in football history have we highlighted in the last month? How do they provide us with historical mirrors to the present?
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February in Football
What moments in football history have we highlighted in the last month? How do they provide us with historical mirrors to the present?
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December in Football
Waiting for UEFA2020, we provided you with a 365-day #onthisday series of posts. Here is what you enjoyed reading in December!
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November in Football
Waiting for UEFA2020, we provided you with a 365-day #onthisday series of posts. Here is what you enjoyed reading in November!
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October in Football
As the UEFA 2020 European Championships got pushed ahead one year, we provide you with a 365-day #onthisday series of posts to help all fans out there to go back in time, think, and reflect.
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September in Football
As the UEFA 2020 European Championships got pushed ahead one year, we provide you with a 365-day #onthisday series of posts to help all fans out there to go back in time, think, and reflect.
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August in Football
As the UEFA 2020 European Championships got pushed ahead one year, the team of Football Makes History will provide you with a 365-day #onthisday series of posts to help all fans out there to go back in time, think, and reflect.
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July in football history
As the UEFA 2020 European Championships got pushed ahead one year, the team of Football Makes History will provide you with a 365-day #onthisday series of posts to help all fans out there to go back in time, think, and reflect.
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Historians at Football Clubs 2: Derby County
Derby County historian Andy Ellis shares how football and history and heritage come together in his work.
Time Travel to the European Championship of 1454
Italian history teacher adapted a lesson plan made in Iceland and took it several centuries back.
Big statements on a small piece of cloth
Activism on the pitch has many faces. Here are some team captains who wear their colours on their armbands.
The rise and fall of a club as community drama
An opera about community, collective action, local stories and football.
Rethinking the football museum
Heritage studies has not engaged much with the world of football, but some football museums are quickly becoming places for social work and education.
The Dutch East Indies, a colonial team at a World Cup
At the 1938 football World Cup in France, the team representing the Dutch East Indies played Hungary.
Far away and/or forgotten? Learning history through the Conference League
Several football clubs have to play away from their home because of war and conflict. This article will look at some of those clubs.
Far away and/or forgotten? Learning history through the Conference League
Several football clubs have to play away from their home because of war and conflict. This article will look at some of those clubs.
When Football was mobilised
Football’s history can be traced along troops stations and frontlines.
When God was Bulgarian
Today in 1993, one football match connected a rooster, Bulgaria and God.
FC United serves as a mirror
FC United is a documentary about racism in Belgium and gives much needed voice to the affected.
Archive
A plea for inclusion
From the example of Goalball, we look at some broader issues with inclusion and equality in sport.
Social layers in a Netflix drama ‘Club de Cuervos’
Review of a drama show to help students discuss societal issues.
Social layers in a Netflix drama ‘Club de Cuervos’
Review of a drama show to help students discuss societal issues.
Unpacking women’s football history one picture at a time
There is a lot to be discovered about women’s football history despite the limited evidence available.
Football at the Concentration Camp
Interview with researcher Bas Kortholt of Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre on football’s unique potential.
Birth of nations
On this day in 1930, the first ever World Cup got underway in Uruguay. It marked a special period in the development of nationalism.
Competing for more than goals
Today is the final day of the European Championship 2020, in 2021, whose central campaign was #EqualGame. How did that go?
Panenka and Penalty Pressures
What was so special about the penalty scored in EURO 1976 Finals?
May in Football
What moments in football history have we highlighted in the last month? How do they provide us with historical mirrors to the present?
Painting the picture of women’s football in 1922
Artist Ángel Zárraga caused a storm in the conservative climate of Dutch Football.
Football vs. antisemitism
The EU-funded project “Changing the Chants” released a documentary exploring a border-crossing cooperation to tackle antisemitism in football.
A long journey
Retelling the history of the women’s football in Northern Ireland offers us a view on how the game came, went and is here to stay.
Let the students decide!
History uses Football Makes History is the classroom to teach about equality and let’s students decide!
April in Football
What moments in football history have we highlighted in the last month? How do they provide us with historical mirrors to the present?
The Blitz and the Oval
During WWII Nazi Germany attacked the harbors of Belfast, destroying with them most of the stadium of Glentoran F.C.
