Dr Lydia Furse 🏉🏳️‍🌈 (@lydzfursey) 's Twitter Profile
Dr Lydia Furse 🏉🏳️‍🌈

@lydzfursey

Women's rugby player, fan, and historian. She/Her All views are my own, retweet does not equal endorsement #transwomenarewomen #allies #LGBTQ+

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BSSH (@britsporthissoc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Huge congratulations to Dr Alexander Jackson whose book Football's Great War: Associated Football on the English Home Front, 1914 – 1918 has won the 2023 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 👏 Prize presented to Alex by judges Malcolm MacLean & Verity Postlethwaite #BSSH2023

Huge congratulations to <a href="/DrAlexJack1/">Dr Alexander Jackson</a> whose book Football's Great War: Associated Football on the English Home Front, 1914 – 1918 has won the 2023 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 👏 

Prize presented to Alex by judges <a href="/malcomaxx/">Malcolm MacLean</a> &amp; <a href="/verity_pos/">Verity Postlethwaite</a> #BSSH2023
Dr Lydia Furse 🏉🏳️‍🌈 (@lydzfursey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great couple of days @UnivCatholille talking all things rugby and WWI. Great to hear from Rob Hess and many others who I hope to find on the twitterverse.

Great couple of days @UnivCatholille talking all things rugby and WWI. 

Great to hear from <a href="/SportHistorian/">Rob Hess</a> and many others who I hope to find on the twitterverse.
Musée de la Bataille de Fromelles (@fromelles1916) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dr Lydia Furse 🏉🏳️‍🌈 dmuleicester « Challenges and opportunities: the impact of the First World War on women’s playing participation in rugby » During pre-war period, women encounter difficulties to gain access to rugby because it was seen as such a masculine sport. 1/2 #RugbyAndWWI

Rugby Canada (@rugbycanada) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Saturday morning plans sorted ✅ 🏉 Canada’s Women’s Rugby Team vs England 🗓️ Saturday September 23 ⏰ 6:30 a.m. PT / 9:30 a.m. ET 📺 TSN+ #RugbyCA | NFP, an Aon company (Canada)

Nick Heath (@nickheathsport) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tune in this afternoon as last year’s Rugby World Cup semi-finalists go head to head at Sandy Park. #ENGvCAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇨🇦 1410 Coverage starts w Kenzie Benali & Kat Merchant 1430 Kick off Sandy Park Exeter LIVE on YouTube, Facebook and TSN 🖥️ youtube.com/live/I_s3IbTdR…

Tune in this afternoon as last year’s Rugby World Cup semi-finalists go head to head at Sandy Park. #ENGvCAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇨🇦 

1410 Coverage starts w <a href="/KenzieBenali/">Kenzie Benali</a> &amp; <a href="/KatMerchant14/">Kat Merchant</a> 

1430 Kick off <a href="/SandyParkExeter/">Sandy Park Exeter</a> 

LIVE on <a href="/YouTube/">YouTube</a>, <a href="/facebook/">Facebook</a> and <a href="/TSN_Sports/">TSN</a> 

🖥️ youtube.com/live/I_s3IbTdR…
Dr Lydia Furse 🏉🏳️‍🌈 (@lydzfursey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dilwyn Porter speaking on the 1923 celebrations of the ‘centenary’ of William Webb Ellis “picking up the ball and running with it”. You can find out more World Rugby Museum in the special exhibition “ENIGMA”.

Dilwyn Porter speaking on the 1923 celebrations of the ‘centenary’ of William Webb Ellis “picking up the ball and running with it”. You can find out more <a href="/wrugbymuseum/">World Rugby Museum</a> in the special exhibition “ENIGMA”.
Professor Fiona Skillen (@fionaskillen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🧵What an amazing afternoon of theatre, music and sport history! 90 Days Traverse Theatre How Scotland saved the 1994 Women’s Rugby World Cup. the story of how Scotland’s first women’s rugby players galvanised the Scottish rugby community to become the unlikely saviours of

🧵What an amazing afternoon of theatre, music and sport history!

90 Days <a href="/traversetheatre/">Traverse Theatre</a> 

How Scotland saved the 1994 Women’s Rugby World Cup.

the story of how Scotland’s first women’s rugby players galvanised the Scottish rugby community to become the unlikely saviours of
Dr Lydia Furse 🏉🏳️‍🌈 (@lydzfursey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Such amazing positive feedback on the 90 Days play - really believe it should go on tour so others can experience this incredible production and beautiful story.