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Played in Britain
Charting the heritage of a nation at play
We publish books about Britain's sporting heritage. If you like an old scoreboard, or a mildewed pavilion; if you would like to know where to find the world's oldest bowling green, or the best Art Deco grandstand in London; if you're fed up with homogenised, commercialised sport, and long to dive into a Victorian swimming pool with gorgeous ceramic tiling; if you think potting balls all afternoon in a dimly-lit billiard hall is definitely not time mis-spent; if you have ever wondered why tennis and suburbia go together so well, then Played in Britain is for you...
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Played in Britain news feed: reporting on Britain's sporting heritage
Former billiard hall listed
June 23 2008
English Heritage has listed the former Temperance Billiards Hall in Lewisham High Street as a building of national significance - news that has been warmly welcomed by the Victorian Society. Played in Britain is preparing a complete study of London's Temperance Billiards Halls for Played in London, due to be published in 2011.
Sporting heritage in National Archaeology Week
June 16 2008
Archaeological discoveries at the Olympic Park site in East London, talks on Britain's Olympic heritage and a display of Tudor archery will all be featured at Fort Cumberland in Portsmouth as part of English Heritage's contribution to National Archaeology Week over the weekend of July 12 and 13.
Graveyard sleuths wanted in search for sporting tombstones and memorials
June 04 2008
In the belief that graveyards are as much for the living as for the dead, Dr Mike Huggins, of the University of Cumbria, is asking all friends and supporters of Played in Britain to assist with the compilation of a gazetteer of tombstones and memorials dedicated to sportsmen and women. Can you help? Find out more by clicking the link below...
A Century of Olympic Posters
May 23 2008
A vibrant new exhibition of Olympic Games posters has opened at the Museum of Childhood in London's Bethnal Green to coincide with this summer's Beijing Games. Admission is free and the exhibition runs till September 7.
Selected titles from Played in Britain
Played in Birmingham
Charting the heritage of a city at play
By Steve Beauchampé & Simon Inglis
Engineering Archie
Archibald Leitch - football ground designer
By Simon Inglis
