Alan Rees
@archivist_al
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Yorkshireman, Londoner, Brasilian, World Record Holder, MCC Archive & Library Manager views are my own
Stratford, London
Joined June 2010
Hello new cricket related followers! if i dont follow bakc please dont worry it's not me being rude, you go in to my cricket list on here so easier to see all tweets together. I do hope this place lasts, if not see you on threads I guess.
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many congratulations to the boss @britcherspitch on winning the @BritSportHisSoc & @CricketSociety 2025 Howard Milton Award for cricket scholarship, what an honour .
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It's an @ACScricket day today, the last in their series of hard to find scores and well reviewed biography on the @NorthantsCCC inter-war cricketer Fred Bakewell by @AdelphiArchive
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2 latest books in @MCCOfficial Library, Gilbert Jessop's great feat has come up a few times this summer & @swildecricket has written a great account of that famous innings also Ashley Giles's autobiography on his career & dealing with depression @FairfieldBooks_ @BloomsburyBooks
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Two recent beautiful books newly purchased by the library, a history of triple and quadruple centuries by @DrNaumanNiaz & another addition to the recent books on Trumper by @RicSissons & Peter Schofield, both wonderfully illustrated
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It's a @SouvikNaha day in the library today, he has edited two new collections articles of cricket in the 21st century and cricket and modern nationhood, sure to be interesting reads
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Latest books in the @MCCOfficial library, a collection of writing is by the great Gideon Haigh on Australia vs India & an inspiring biography by player and international coach Andy Moles @FairfieldBooks_
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Enjoyed listening to Cheteshwar Pujara @cheteshwar1 on @bbctms this summer? His wife, Puja, has written a book on what's it's like to be the wife of a cricketer and kindly donated a copy to the Library, a 21st update on the books by Frances Edmonds
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RT @RWhitehead61: What an honour at @HomeOfCricket on Sunday to be asked by the redoubtable @archivist_al to sign the library copy of V….
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Many thanks to Matt Featherstone of @brasil_cricket for donating a signed @MorettiAvery shirt to the @MCCOfficial museum and for the Cricket Brasil shirts for my family and I, we love them!
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After the excitement yesterday it's @MCCOfficial vs. Hong Kong CC, who have a long history & picturesque ground, below shows a notebook of scores of rivalry between Hong Kong & Shanghai, both teams were involved in a tragic boat accident in 1892, still a very active sports club
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Many thanks to Tom Shaw for donating a copy of his latest book, fabulous photos of cricket grounds with matches in action and portraits of people that love and play the game, definitely one for you @WG_RumblePants
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nice article by @PBarlowJourno of the BBC on the Allahakhbarries here: We have a some contemporary material on the team including the scorebook, and some year books which naturally makes for some great reading!
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After Italy qualifying for the T20 World Cup I searched to see what we have on them (sadly not much) but is this the earliest reference to cricket in Italy from 1828? Found in an F.S. Ashley Cooper scrapbook @TimothyAbraham
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happy to have helped out @ESPNcricinfo with info on the history of when new balls are allowed (now you know what I spent my time researching this afternoon).
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Having been sitting on this for sometime it's great to have it finally unveiled and for everyone to see in the Museum.
A portrait of the great Sachin Tendulkar was unveiled in the MCC Museum at Lord's today.
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After watching Adam Curtis's Shifty this book by @bendobson67 feels very timely focusing on the year of 1981, latest addition to @MCCOfficial library @PitchPublishing
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They also visited the St Helen's Ground in Swansea where the Aboriginal team played, the CC4 Museum of Welsh Cricket did a podcast on it, please have a listen!.
Why not have a listen to our latest episode:. Cricket Walkabout: Swansea and the aboriginal cricket tourists of 1868:. Hear about the tour, the Mullagh Medal and how a photo taken at Swansea now takes centre stage at the world famous MCG.
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Here is a lovely little piece on then visit to @HomeOfCricket by Harrow Discovery Centre to commemorate the 1868 Aboriginal tour of UK. It's not been widely shared so have a read (wont take long) & share with others who think may be interested in it.
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4th July marks another famous foundation, that of I Zingari, 180 years old today! The wandering club is one of the oldest anywhere in the world and still going strong today, founded by members of MCC, they feature in the oldest known photograph at Lord's.
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The latest editions to the @MCCOfficial library, Vic Marks's follow up to Alan Gibsons's Cricket Captains of England and new updated version of Gibsons original books @FairfieldBooks_
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