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William Webb Ellis Was Framed! - the Rugby Reloaded podcast launch

March 19, 2018
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I'm pleased to say that Rugby Reloaded now has a podcast, memorably titled the Rugby Reloaded Podcast. The first episode tackles the William Webb Ellis myth, looking at the reasons it emerged and the consequences it had for both codes of rugby.

You can download it here from iTunes or listen to it here on Soundcloud.

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Rugby Reloaded

Welcome to my irregular blog. Much of it is concerned with the history of rugby league and rugby union, but I also occasionally deal with other relevant topics. Some of the material here I haven't published elsewhere so I hope that it is a useful resource.

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Click here for the 'Rugby Reloaded' Podcast

Blog index

  • 2018
    • May 28, 2018 ‘How Football Began’: a sneak preview
    • May 11, 2018 Fifty Years Since the Watersplash Final
    • Mar 19, 2018 William Webb Ellis Was Framed! - the Rugby Reloaded podcast launch
    • Mar 13, 2018 The Rugby Codebreakers - watch again
    • Mar 7, 2018 Welsh Codebreakers in the Inter-War Years
    • Feb 21, 2018 Canada joins rugby league... in 1943
  • 2017
    • Dec 1, 2017 How the Rugby League World Cup 2017 signals a change in international sport
    • Jul 22, 2017 Before the Wolfpack - Rugby League in Canada and beyond
    • Mar 27, 2017 David Storey & Lindsay Anderson's 'This Sporting Life'
  • 2016
    • Oct 31, 2016 Whatever it was, it wasn't a field goal...
    • Sep 27, 2016 The Past, Present and Future of the Scrum
    • Sep 25, 2016 1930: The 'Daily Worker' debates the rugby codes
    • Aug 31, 2016 Harry Jepson 1920-2016: A Life in Rugby League
    • Aug 30, 2016 Harry Jepson: Farewell to the last living link with 1895
    • Jul 12, 2016 Roger Millward 1947-2016
    • May 12, 2016 England, Great Britain, Northern Union. What's in a (rugby league) name?
    • Apr 29, 2016 Gus Risman - The Indomitable
    • Apr 25, 2016 Soccer: How the Global Game Became Global
    • Apr 1, 2016 Origins of Australian football (part three): 'Britishness' and national sport mythology
    • Mar 30, 2016 Origins of Australian Rules football (part two): how the rules emerged
    • Mar 23, 2016 Origins of Australian Rules football (part one)
    • Mar 11, 2016 England versus Wales in the shadow of 1895...
    • Feb 4, 2016 Who will be the 2016 Super League Champions?
    • Jan 30, 2016 The Oval World - the impact of the RFU
    • Jan 27, 2016 The Oval World - Anglo-Saxon Rugby and Global Soccer
    • Jan 25, 2016 The Oval World - rugby and 'globalisation' in the Nineteenth Century
  • 2015
    • Nov 26, 2015 Empire of the Scrum: the history of rugby in Shanghai
    • Nov 19, 2015 120 Years of Rugby League
    • Nov 6, 2015 Conversion rates...
    • Oct 2, 2015 'Whinging Poms and Arrogant Aussies?' The roots of the rugby rivalry
    • Sep 29, 2015 Was rugby more dangerous than soccer in Victorian times?
    • Sep 26, 2015 The Roots of Rugby League - a four week course
    • Sep 24, 2015 Here We Go Again: 'English Rugby Union is not a middle-class sport'
    • Sep 21, 2015 William Webb Ellis - back from the dead
    • Sep 16, 2015 'A Social History of English Rugby Union' wins best book award
    • Aug 2, 2015 Miners and rugby league at the National Coal Mining Museum
    • Jul 23, 2015 Maori, Kiwis and the Haka
    • Jun 16, 2015 The Walter Camp myth and the origins of American football
    • Jun 15, 2015 Rugby League in North America in the 1950s
    • Jun 11, 2015 The Rise and Fall of American Rugby 1906-15
    • Jun 8, 2015 The 1919 King's Cup: rugby union's first 'world cup'?
    • Jun 1, 2015 Sheffield Football, Rugby and the Origins of Soccer
    • Apr 12, 2015 The birth of rugby in York
    • Apr 7, 2015 Boxing, race and the working class
    • Feb 27, 2015 Dicky Lockwood - Rugby's Forgotten Giant
  • 2014
    • Nov 18, 2014 Willie Horne - Barrow's working-class hero
    • Aug 31, 2014 Ways of Seeing: W.A. Wollen's 'The Roses Match'
    • Aug 5, 2014 Rugby League in World War One
    • May 14, 2014 A Rugby Time-Tunnel
    • May 9, 2014 Eddie redux
    • Jan 27, 2014 Wally McArthur: A Tribute
  • 2013
    • Dec 16, 2013 Peter O'Toole and rugby league
    • Sep 5, 2013 Walter Camp on rugby league
    • Jun 13, 2013 Broken Time 'not an issue' in the 1895 split?
    • Jun 8, 2013 'Where’s George?': League’s Forgotten Feature Film
  • 2012
    • Sep 5, 2012 This Sporting Life
    • Aug 21, 2012 All Aboard for Wembley!
    • Aug 12, 2012 Phil Melling, 1947-2011
    • Aug 12, 2012 Why six tackles in league?
    • Aug 12, 2012 1895: the aftermath
    • Aug 12, 2012 The evolution of the scrum
    • Aug 12, 2012 League and literature
    • Aug 12, 2012 Why is rugby league 13-a-side?
    • Aug 12, 2012 Eddie Waring: Mr Rugby League (BBC4)
    • Aug 12, 2012 In honour of Albert Goldthorpe
    • Aug 12, 2012 What was rugby called before 1895?
    • Aug 12, 2012 The hidden history of Sevens and 'short-form' rugby
    • Aug 12, 2012 Why didn't Sale join the Northern Union?
    • Aug 12, 2012 Kenneth Wolstenholme and rugby league
    • Aug 12, 2012 A contest for possession?
    • Aug 12, 2012 'Invictus': whitewash meets fairytale
    • Aug 12, 2012 A game for all shapes and sizes?

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