The Spin | I became a detective in women’s cricket and found treasure in an old Lancashire cowshed
The MCC Library has gone from three books to a proper archive with scrapbooks, letters, diaries and newspaper cuttings
In the spring of 2011, I went to the MCC library at Lord’s – the world’s largest collection of printed material on cricket. I was near the start of a PhD on the history of women’s cricket and I wanted source material: this, surely, would be where I would find it?
Nope. When the MCC’s Neil Robinson took me to the section of the shelves on women’s cricket, I found that it consisted of three books, one of which was the autobiography of Rachael Heyhoe Flint, published in 1978. As for the MCC archives? The store cupboard was bare. Continue reading...
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