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Women's Football - the Trailblazers of the 20s
Women have been playing football in the UK for hundreds of years - through wars, a 50-year FA ban and no funding. Thanks to these trailblazers, football finally came home in summer 2022.
When England's Lionesses won the Women's European Championship at Wembley in front of a record-breaking 87,000 spectators (and millions more watching at home), it was the players you see in this collection who laid the foundations and paved the way for their success.
Women's Football Dick Kerr's Ladies FC vs. Lister's Ladies Women's Football Dick Kerr's Ladies FC vs. Lister's Ladies
Sport 1921 5 mins Silent Location: Valley Parade, Bradford
Preston's famous Dick, Kerr Ladies FC - one of the earliest known women's football teams in England - play local side, Lister's Ladies, at Bradford's Valley Parade ground.
Quite Unfit for Females Quite Unfit for Females
Non-Fiction 1921 1 mins
A light-hearted newsreel item on the Football Association's proposed ban on women's football in 1921.
Enfield F.C. v. Ediswan Factory Enfield F.C. v. Ediswan Factory
Non-Fiction 1921 2 mins Silent Location: Enfield
Difficult times for women's football, but it doesn't stop the battle of the lightbulb makers in North London.
Lady Footballers Lady Footballers
Non-Fiction 1918 0 mins Silent Location: Southend-on-Sea
Women munitions workers from the Kynoch and Vickers Maxim factories take to the pitch in Southend during WWI.