BPEA Links
Links to related collections and general information for researchers
The Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service holds the records of Bedford Training College (founded in 1882), its successors and associated schools. An online catalogue is available here under the reference BTC.
The Dartford site of North Kent College holds the Bergman-Österburg Union Archive.
The Kent History & Library Centre holds records relating to Nonington College of Physical Education.
The Anita White Collection comprises papers accumulated by leaders in the “women’s sports movement” – a collective of organisations and individuals who have worked to achieve their overriding objective of sustained activism to change sport for women. The Archive is held at the University of Chichester.
The Sporting Heritage website draws together information about sporting collections in the UK, whether held in museums, archives, community venues, universities, or private collection.
The Archives Hub provides a gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges.
The National Archives is the UK government's official archive, from the Domesday Book to websites. It hosts Discovery which holds more than 32 million descriptions of records held by The National Archives and more than 2,500 archives across the country, and the ARCHON Directory which includes contact details for record repositories in the United Kingdom and also for institutions elsewhere in the world which have substantial collections of manuscripts noted under the indexes to the National Register of Archives.
A Proper Spectacle: Women Olympians 1900-1936 describes an Olympic book written by two former Bedford students and sponsored by BPEOSA.
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