March Lecture: ‘Take the wife with you to see the lady footballers’
Join the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for their March Lecture on 'The development of women’s football in Scotland, 1880-1939′ at Augustine United Church on 7th March!
About March Lecture: ‘Take the wife with you to see the lady footballers’
”Take the wife with you to see the lady footballers”: The development of women’s football in Scotland, 1880-1939′
5 December 2021 marked the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the Football Association’s ‘ban’ on women’s football in England. Yet, 100 years on we have little understanding of the impact of that ‘ban’ or how, why and where women’s football developed within the nations which make up the United Kingdom.
Scotland has in the last 100 years at least, had a problematic relationship with women’s football. It was the last European Football Association to formally recognise the women’s game in 1974. It has often been assumed and perpetuated by the press, that the women’s game only began to develop in Scotland from the 1960s onwards, culminating with the founding of Scottish Women’s Football Association (SFWA) in 1971. At a time when the profile of the women’s game has taken on a new significance within Scottish culture it seems right to explore and celebrate its long yet under discussed history and heritage.
Ahead of International Women's Day, join the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland on 7 March to hear from Professor Fiona Skillen, Professor of History at Glasgow Caledonian University, who will share updates from her current research project for FIFA mapping the development of women’s football in Scotland from the 1880s to the outbreak of World War Two.
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