Sport

Eric Liddell winning the 4x440 yards relay at the British Empire vs USA contest, 1924 [Copyright: Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections Division]

Summer 2002 brings the Commonwealth Games to Manchester, and we are highlighting some of the sporting figures, events, and organisations whose records are described on the Hub:

• Festival of Empire (1911): an Inter-Empire Sports Meeting to celebrate the coronation of King George V, and the forerunner of the Commonwealth Games.
• Humphrey Owen Jones (1878-1912) and Muriel Owen Jones (1886-1912): pioneering mountaineers.
• The history of tennis and rackets: the collection of Lord Aberdare (born 1919), author of The story of tennis.
• English Table Tennis Association: founded in 1925.
• British Orienteering Federation: founded in 1967; orienteering involves navigation with the use of maps at speed through unknown terrain.
• Ling Physical Education Association: founded in 1899, now the Physical Education Association of the UK.

Related links

• Games Legacy: online dcouments relating to the hosting and legacy of the Manchester Commonwealth Games 2002
• British Society of Sports History

• Commonwealth Games: official website of The XVII Commonwealth Games, Manchester 2002 [website requires Flash].
• British Universities Sports Association
• Physical Education Association [website requires frames]
• UK Sport

• Original photograph of Eric Liddell winning the 4x440 yards relay at the British Empire vs USA contest, 1924, by permission of Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections Division.