The Lucas Girls are helping to reshape our cultural sporting narrative

By Kirby Fenwick Posted in Historical Op-Ed

Posted on March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

Image is a black and white photo of a team of women footballers. They wear white hats, tunics and skirts.

The Lucas Girls: A Match to Remember demonstrates how telling the history of women’s sport can help to positively and accurately reshape our cultural narrative.

A place of protest and empowerment: Women in Boots and the story of the 79ers

Posted on June 30, 2020January 17, 2021

Image is of the book Women in Boots: Football and Feminism in the 1970s. The book is orange and has two photos on the front cover. One in the top left hand corner is off a young woman kicking a soccer ball. The other in the bottom right is a picture of four women, they wear football boots and have pulled up the boots to show the bottoms to the camera.

A few weeks ago, we published a review of Marion Stell and Heather Reid’s Women In Boots: Football and Feminism in the 1970s by Professor Jean Williams. This week, we catch up with the authors Marion Stell and Heather Reid to discuss just why that 1979 series is so important. In the early hours of …