Here's why #NSHD2021 is such a great idea!

"The first match of the British Ladies' Football Club" Here's one of the earliest illustrations of women playing football - from 'The Graphic' periodical (March 1895). #NSHD2021

On National Sporting Heritage Day, we want to show how our rugby heritage has defined us and all we do. Here's our story. 👇 #NSHD2021

Today is National Sporting Heritage Day The lowest-ranking honours student in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos (known as an ‘oarsman’s degree’) was awarded a Wooden Spoon. The last spoon went to Cuthbert Holthouse in 1909 with the handle shaped like a rowing blade #NSHD2021 🚣‍♀️

The National Soil Health Day Resolution recognizes soil as an essential natural resource. Show your support for the resolution by signing the resolution: https://t.co/4EstMDqztK #NSHD2021 #soilhealth

Countdown Is On To Get Involved in This Year's National Sporting Heritage Day - @sportinghistory https://t.co/2Duna7Xptu #NSHD2021 #YourSportingStory

Can we agree, perhaps, before passing to the more difficult questions, that #football is indeed a wonderful game, that jazz is a real musical form, and that gardening and homemaking are indeed important? - Freedom and Ownership in the Arts, @NewLeftReview, 1960 #NSHD2021

To mark #NSHD2021 with @sportinghistory, British Judo has marked this by beginning to compile an oral history in the form of audio podcasts. Listen to the first edition featuring Loretta Doyle TODAY at https://t.co/GCqgMdVp46

Take a look at our sporting collections on @Europeanaeu > https://t.co/nB5gCq83R2 #NSHD2021 #EuropeanaSport

For today’s @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange we have chosen this more recent sporting heritage art work of the inspirational Dame Kelly Holmes by Craig Wylie from the collection at the National Portrait Gallery #NSHD2021

It's National Sporting Heritage Day and the theme for this week's #OnlineArtExchange by @artukdotorg! This calm oil painting of the King's Lynn 'Fisher Fleet' by Group Captain Alexander Winter (1887-1969) shows adults and children enjoying fishing. #NSHD2021

For National Sporting Heritage Day #NSHD2021 @sportinghistory and #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg 🥊 Tom Sayers is one of the great English boxers. Nicknamed ‘The Little Wonder’, he stood at just five feet nine inches and weighed under eleven stone 📍📷 @ComptonVerney

It's National Sporting Heritage Day and we'd like to share with you some of our favourite sporting heroes who have previously joined us here at The Events Room. Join us in sharing your favourites. #NSHD2021

Old photos are great for intergenerational chats. To celebrate #NSHD2021 we're sharing pics of football grounds from our Aerofilms Coll https://t.co/CYqfgJyLi8 Footy fans are pretty good bards, so to kick-off, here's one for @sportinghistory Ambassador @IMcMillan @BarnsleyFC

Getting ready to record a special thing for the 150th anniversary of @readingfc for @BBCBerkshire @readingmuseum Organised by @STARReading Hosted by @willow1871 Supported by @sportinghistory #NSHD2021

Sharing some of my own sporting heritage on this #NSHD2021. My grandad was an avid bowler - here he is hiding on the back row, forth from left #Wolvey #SportingHeritage #Bowling @sportinghistory #Museums #Archives

Amazing to see such an old photo from @WrexhamTC (1915) 🎾😮 Don't forget to tag us in your tennis memories for #NSHD2021 🙌

This Thursday is National Sporting Heritage Day 2021! Over the next few days we'd love to see the memories you have of our club - trophies, photos, newspaper clippings (anything!)🎾 Tag us in the posts or pop them in the comments and enjoy Welsh tennis history!🎉 #NSHD2021

Photograph taken by the explorer, journalist and photographer Tom Weir (1914-2006). Weir was a keen mountaineer and became part of the Scottish Expedition to Nepal in 1952, where this photo was taken.(Acc.13059) #NSHD2021 #mountaineering