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Author: Dale Blackwell

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Dear Members of the Kingswood History Society I hope that you don’t mind me contacting you. I am researching evidence of football prior to 1860. There is far more of it than hitherto thought. The British Newspaper Archive has brought much to light from c1740 and has already upset the orthodox account of football’s origins. Having discovered a number of pre-modern references to football in the West Country, I am interested to know of any further references to football in…

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