This week’s ‘Rugby Reloaded’ talks to Helena Byrne (@hbee2015), web archive curator at the British Library’s Web Archive Unit, about sports history web archiving and her work with the Mapping Irish Women’s Football Project, charts the history of women’s involvement in all football codes in Ireland. Helena also talks about her fascinating research into the unique story of women’s indoor football in Ireland in the 1960s.

For more information on the topics Helena discusses in this episode, follow these links:

Mapping Irish Women’s Football Project: https://blogs.bl.uk/thenewsroom/2020/06/mapping-irish-womens-football.html

British Library UK Web Archive: https://blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2018/09/sports-collections-in-the-uk-web-archive.html

Helena’s article on the history of Irish women’s football: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17460263.2019.1604422

British Library blog on its work on sports history: https://blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2020/09/national-sporting-heritage-day-2020.html