Tag: history
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I was out for a few celebratory drinks with a bunch of librarians the other week …This is not the start of a Bob Monkhouse monologue, it’s true as we celebrated winning the Sporting Heritage award for volunteer team of…
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Creativity comes from all sorts of people and places. A man once said “We wanted to make it funny and it was a despondent time and we wanted to take the piss. We didn’t want to sit there and be…
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An interview with the CEO of Google appeared on the BBC this week, interesting only for the fact that one tech’ company is finally coming clean on what utter rot AI is when you are searching for facts or even…
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This week I opened the Cardiff fanzine Thin Blue Line issue 67 from 2008 which covers a story I though must have been a spoof about Hamburg SV opening a cemetery for fans, a cemetery shaped like the ground with…
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In a previous blog to we looked at protest and protest culture on a national level in football fanzines; anti-racism, anti-Thatcher, the appalling state of grounds, police behaviour, anti ID cards, anti-discrimination and much more. Fanzines also focussed on local…
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Icymi (as the kids say) this is now officially an award-winning blog, well the research that goes into it is anyway. No big deal or changes, you just have to call me Sir now or something. Thanks to everyone who…
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“These autonomous publications used for staging, communication and the construction of collective identities…they meant self-empowerment, the overcoming of isolation and the constitution of a social and cultural community.” Football fanzines writ large…except that quote is from a rather weighty academic…
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When people ask me what my favourite fanzine is it’s impossible to answer, there are just so many to choose from BUT I always recommend people look at lower league fanzines in general because they were often the best in…
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The second of our blogs about the amazing stories behind just a few of the vast array of football fanzine names on the first comprehensive list of all fanzines that existed over the past 60 or so years, a very…
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25 September 1976 was a VERY important day. The 1st edition of Roy of the Rovers as a standalone comic was published with an exclusive article by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in which he exclusively revealed exclusively that in…
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