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Dec / Jan 2021
Sporting Heritage’s Football Heritage Network (FHN) Launch Geoff Wicken and Roger Titford from The Great Save attended by Zoom the inaugural meeting of Sporting Heritage’s Football Heritage Network on 18 January 2021. There were about 30 guests in attendance and unsurprisingly most came from museum and archivist backgrounds – the receivers of ‘stuff’ rather than…
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Oct / Nov 2020
We might all be locked down, shielding and zooming to various degrees but we’re glad to say there’s still stuff going on in our general arena. Celebrating our football heritage workshop (Exeter) The Great Save was honoured to be part of the virtual line-up on 4 November alongside Football and War Network, the Football Supporters…
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Aug / Sep 2020
It’s a digital autumn: online workshops, networking and conferences For obvious Covid-19 reasons this summer has proved something of an impasse and led to a massive shift to meeting digitally, at least for the time being. Among the news here is re-arranging of Exeter’s planned spring workshops. As part of the ECFC Museum’s National Lottery…
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June / July 2020
Tales of the unexpectedly saved The June (No. 399) edition of When Saturday Comes featured the kind of rescue tale we love to hear. Hartlepool fan Ed Parkinson had an aged football film canister in his possession for over 40 years and when he finally got to see what was on it (a struggle in itself) –…
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April / May 2020
Well, a lot has changed since our first blog post went out in early March. Not much of it for the better and sadly some of it making The Great Save more relevant than ever. Closing down It’s not just football that’s been closing down but the Heritage Lottery Fund closed its doors in late…
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March 2020
The Saving Memorabilia survey The survey was very useful and we’ve shared the anonymised data with some pioneer organisations in the football heritage arenas. They were delighted with the feedback and felt that it strengthened the case for more support for our cause. There is a brief article in the current issue of WSC, on…