Podcasts about Rugby School

Alex Thomson is an independent journalist and regular contributor to UK Column, where he presents under the "Eastern Approaches" platform. Educated at Rugby School and Cambridge, he began his career with a Christian mission in the former Soviet Union before serving as an officer at GCHQ during his twenties. James visited Alex at home with his father, also named Alex, to discuss biblical studies, language, and reality itself. https://www.ukcolumn.org/writer/alex-thomson-eastern-approaches ↓ Monetary Metals is providing a true alternative to saving and earning in dollars by making it possible to save AND EARN in gold and silver. Monetary Metals has been paying interest on gold and silver for over 8 years. Right now, accredited investors can earn 12% annual interest on silver, paid in silver in their latest silver bond offering. For example, if you have 1,000 ounces of silver in the deal, you receive 120 ounces of silver interest paid to your account in the first year. Go to the link in the description or head to https://monetary-metals.com/delingpole/ to learn more about how to participate and start earning a return on honest money again with Monetary Metals. ↓ ↓ How environmentalists are killing the planet, destroying the economy and stealing your children's future. In Watermelons, an updated edition of his ground-breaking 2011 book, James tells the shocking true story of how a handful of political activists, green campaigners, voodoo scientists and psychopathic billionaires teamed up to invent a fake crisis called ‘global warming'. This updated edition includes two new chapters which, like a geo-engineered flood, pour cold water on some of the original's sunny optimism and provide new insights into the diabolical nature of the climate alarmists' sinister master plan. Purchase Watermelons (2024) by James Delingpole here: https://jamesdelingpole.co.uk/Shop/Products/Watermelons-2024.html ↓ ↓ ↓ Buy James a Coffee at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jamesdelingpole The official website of James Delingpole: https://jamesdelingpole.co.uk x

Today's poem demonstrates that, unlike Arnold's sideburns, loving the Bard never goes out of style. Although remembered now for his elegantly argued critical essays, Matthew Arnold, born in Laleham, Middlesex, on December 24, 1822, began his career as a poet, winning early recognition as a student at the Rugby School where his father, Thomas Arnold, had earned national acclaim as a strict and innovative headmaster. Arnold also studied at Balliol College, Oxford University. In 1844, after completing his undergraduate degree at Oxford, he returned to Rugby as a teacher of classics.After marrying in 1851, Arnold began work as a government school inspector, a grueling position which nonetheless afforded him the opportunity to travel throughout England and the Continent. Throughout his thirty-five years in this position Arnold developed an interest in education, an interest which fed into both his critical works and his poetry. Empedocles on Etna (1852) and Poems (1853) established Arnold's reputation as a poet and, in 1857, he was offered a position, which he accepted and held until 1867, as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Arnold became the first professor to lecture in English rather than Latin. During this time Arnold wrote the bulk of his most famous critical works, Essays in Criticism (1865) and Culture and Anarchy (1869), in which he sets forth ideas that greatly reflect the predominant values of the Victorian era.Meditative and rhetorical, Arnold's poetry often wrestles with problems of psychological isolation. In “To Marguerite—Continued,” for example, Arnold revises John Donne's assertion that “No man is an island,” suggesting that we “mortals” are indeed “in the sea of life enisled.” Other well-known poems, such as “Dover Beach,” link the problem of isolation with what Arnold saw as the dwindling faith of his time. Despite his own religious doubts, a source of great anxiety for him, in several essays Arnold sought to establish the essential truth of Christianity. His most influential essays, however, were those on literary topics. In “The Function of Criticism” (1865) and “The Study of Poetry” (1880) Arnold called for a new epic poetry: a poetry that would address the moral needs of his readers, “to animate and ennoble them.” Arnold's arguments, for a renewed religious faith and an adoption of classical aesthetics and morals, are particularly representative of mainstream Victorian intellectual concerns. His approach—his gentlemanly and subtle style—to these issues, however, established criticism as an art form, and has influenced almost every major English critic since, including T. S. Eliot, Lionel Trilling, and Harold Bloom. Though perhaps less obvious, the tremendous influence of his poetry, which addresses the poet's most innermost feelings with complete transparency, can easily be seen in writers as different from each other as W. B. Yeats, James Wright, Sylvia Plath, and Sharon Olds. Late in life, in 1883 and 1886, Arnold made two lecturing tours of the United States.Matthew Arnold died in Liverpool on April 15, 1888.-bio via Academy of American Poets Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Curveballs aren't necessarily ‘negative' in nature. Sometimes our families can be thrown off track by something positive and joyful, if it arrives unexpectedly. One example is when you have a high-achieving child, whose opportunities require you to make some sacrifices as a family. Our guests today, Carey and Frances Simon, know a lot about this, having nurtured their daughter Naomi's gift of singing from a young age. Naomi was a chorister at York Minster, then moved on to Rugby School with a music scholarship. In 2022, Naomi was crowned BBC Young Chorister of the Year. Carey, a life coach and author, and Frances, a professional actress, talk openly about Naomi's journeys, the joys and challenges along the way, and how they've nurtured her faith at different stages. Links: Follow Naomi's musical journey on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naomisimonmusic/ Follow the Simon family on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teamsimonpics/ Check out Carey's book: www.powerfullytransforming.com Talking about the election: https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/post/talking-about-the-election/ We love bringing fabulous guests onto this podcast to talk about such fascinating topics. But we can't do it without financial support! Thank you to those of you who give regularly to enable the ministry of Parenting for Faith to continue. If you don't - would you consider partnering with us in this way? Even just £2 a month goes a long way! Click here to give a one-off or regular gift: www.brf.org.uk/get-involved/give/ Parenting for Faith is part of the charity, BRF. We are reliant on donations from individuals and churches to make our resources available to as many people as possible - and we are grateful for each and every one. Big or small, your financial gifts make a massive difference. Thank you.

We chat with Anne Dickinson (Director of Marketing and Admissions, Rugby School Japan) about building MAD processes at a start-up international school, how you explain that Rugby School is more than a school for rugby, and the changing expat demographics in Japan.

Recorded on the day of the London marathon, Graham & Angus discuss running, and how to improve your performance. Graham also details some extreme running taking place in Japan, and highlights the regime of ultramarathon runner Jake Barraclough, who famously ran 281 miles from Rugby School in the UK to Paris ahead of the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

Area/TopicNew Zealand, Maori, SpiritualityJean-Michel JeffersonOwnerAhipara TravelJean-Michel Jefferson is the founder and CEO of Ahipara Luxury Travel.  Educated at various schools in North Africa and the Middle East (son of a diplomat), then Rugby School, and the universities of Exeter and Sheffield, Jean-Michel spent 9 years with Price Waterhouse as a Management Consultant and Aviation Strategist in London and Moscow before ditching the corporate life and starting Ahipara in New Zealand.  He grew up with authentic and meaningful travel and this is what he enjoys creating for our clients.  He has mentored promising tour providers for a number of years and is always looking for a way to push boundaries, particularly with regard to transformational experiences.  Jean-Michel has a special interest in Maori culture and spirituality.https://www.ahipara.com/SummaryJean-Michel Jefferson, owner of Ahipara Travel, shares his journey in the adventure tourism industry and the unique experiences his company offers in New Zealand. He emphasizes the importance of going deep in tourism, creating meaningful connections with local communities, and respecting indigenous cultures. Jean-Michel highlights the significance of Maori culture in New Zealand and the openness of the Maori people in sharing their stories. He also discusses the safety considerations and the advantages of both guided tours and independent travel in New Zealand. Overall, Jean-Michel's passion for creating authentic and immersive experiences shines through in this conversation.TakeawaysGoing deep in tourism involves creating meaningful connections with local communities and respecting indigenous cultures.Maori culture plays a significant role in New Zealand, and the Maori people are open to sharing their stories and traditions.New Zealand offers a range of experiences, from helicopter tours to exploring off-the-beaten-path locations.Safety is a priority in New Zealand, and the country is known for its accessibility and ease of travel. Learn more about the Big World Made Small Podcast and join our private community to get episode updates, special access to our guests, and exclusive adventure travel offers at bigworldmadesmall.com.

After learning what today's British Establishment was all about at Rugby School and Cambridge, Alex Thomson served in a Christian mission in the former Soviet Union and went on to spend the rest of his twenties as a GCHQ officer. He moved to the Netherlands aged thirty in 2009 and has spent the last decade and a half more quietly as a translator and interpreter and a researcher of networked evil. Since 2014, Alex has presented his emerging findings via the Eastern Approaches brand on UK Column News, where his specialisms are Europe, geopolitics, religious affairs and constitutional matters. He maintains the Eastern Approaches YouTube channel, mostly of careful readings of key documents indicating the scope of corruption of British and Western public life. He has two Telegram channels: Eastern Approaches and All the Eastern Approaches. Gwynne's Introduction to True Philosophy: When it comes to the news, who, if anyone, is telling us the truth? It seems that none of us can give a satisfactory answer. We have been lied to by the press and the media for so long that most of us down the rabbit hole reckon that the news, and just about everything else that surrounds us, is a lie. So what can we do? One solution is to buy Gwynne's Introduction to True Philosophy. This book will not only help you to think properly, teaching you to analyse and sift what is going on, helping you get to the reliable truth; but it also dissects numerous examples of subjects (like evolution) revealing fascinating truths that have been deliberately hidden. Gwynne's Introduction to True Philosophy is a real page turner at £18 including UK post. If life were normal, you'd be able to buy this book on Amazon, but no longer. AMAZON misleadingly say that this book is unavailable - this in spite of them being repeatedly told that copies are readily available at the publishers. Does not this censorship make such a book even more intriguing? So if you want a copy go to stedwardspress.co.uk and buy online direct from the publishers. That's Gwynnes introduction to True Philosophy at stedwardspress.co.uk ↓ ↓ ↓ If you need silver and gold bullion - and who wouldn't in these dark times? - then the place to go is The Pure Gold Company. Either they can deliver worldwide to your door - or store it for you in vaults in London and Zurich. You even use it for your pension. Cash out of gold whenever you like: liquidate within 24 hours. https://bit.ly/James-Delingpole-Gold / / / / / / Earn interest on Gold: https://monetary-metals.com/delingpole/ / / / / / / Buy James a Coffee at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jamesdelingpole Support James' Writing at: https://delingpole.substack.com Support James monthly at: https://locals.com/member/JamesDelingpole?community_id=7720

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SynopsisRugby is a style of football that originated in England at Rugby School and was played at British public boy's schools during the 19th century.It's also the name of a tone poem written by Swiss composer Arthur Honegger that premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Champes-Elysées on today's date in 1928 at the first concert of the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris.In describing his tone poem, Honegger wrote: “I'm very fond of soccer, but rugby is closer to my heart. … I'm more keenly attracted by rugby's rhythm, which is savage, abrupt, chaotic and desperate. It would be wrong to consider my piece as program music. It simply tries to describe in musical language the game's attacks and counterattacks, and the rhythm and color of a match.”Now, you would think in such a slam-bang contact sport as rugby that Honegger would employ a big battery of percussion instruments, but — surprise — they are totally absent in his score. Not to worry. There is plenty of rough ‘n' tumble action between the strings, woodwinds and brass, but fortunately no protective headgear is required by either the performers or the listeners.Music Played in Today's ProgramArthur Honegger: Rugby

On this month's podcast, Ethan was joined by former England international Luther Burrell and RPA Head of Player Development & Wellbeing Luke Cheyne, where they talked about the topic of player development and preparing for your life in rugby. This podcast was recorded at the RPA Academy Induction Day in August at Rugby School.

Bienvenue dans Les Fabuleux Destins ! Découvrez l'histoire d'un écrivain très controversé. Provocateur insultant pour une partie du monde musulman, libre-penseur et génie littéraire pour les pays occidentaux, il a suscité colère et émotions aux quatre coins du monde. L'un de ses romans, en particulier, a eu l'effet d'une bombe. Son nom : Salman Rushdie. Entre protection policière et fureur religieuse, découvrez son fabuleux destin. L'écrivain qu'on voulait assassiner Salman Rushdie naît en 1947 à Bombay, en Inde, dans une famille laïque relativement aisée. Bon élève à l'école, il part en Angleterre dès l'âge de 13 ans. Il étudie à la Rugby School, l'un des plus vieux et prestigieux établissements du pays, puis à King's College, rattaché à Cambridge. Très vite, le jeune homme se passionne pour la littérature. L'ourdou est sa langue maternelle, mais l'anglais a un vocabulaire si vaste, une musicalité si riche qu'il en tombe amoureux. Pour découvrir d'autres récits passionnants, cliquez ci-dessous : Fernand de Magellan, le navigateur oublié qui a fait le premier tour du monde Bigfoot, la créature humanoïde qui a passionné de nombreux chercheurs Marilyn Monroe, la légende d'Hollywood au destin tragique Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Elie Olivennes Voix : Andréa Brusque Production : Bababam (montage Matteo Benedetto, Antoine Berry Roger) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former GCHQ Officer Alex Thomson discusses the Anglo-American establishment's fixation on Ukraine as the underbelly of the World Island and how it is not in the interest now of either the West or the Russians to de-escalate. The logic of the expansionist system on both sides is that they're more interested in a Third World War or an eternal penumbra of Doomsday as opposed to the return of a Westphalian order. There is not a better world solution coming from Russia or China where there also exists world domination-minded elements. Very few national leaders remain who are willing and able to oppose globalism, there is an inevitable trend toward world government. He's optimistic about being able to survive the Algorithm Ghetto via parallel structures and also comments on prophecy, information operations, and antisemitic trolls. Watch On BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / PentagonTube Geopolitics & Empire · Alex Thomson: Both East & West Are Interested in WW3 or an Eternal Penumbra of Doomsday #353 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites UK Column https://www.ukcolumn.org Telegram https://t.me/EastApp YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@AlexThomson-EasternApproaches About Alex Thomson After learning what today's British Establishment was all about at Rugby School and Cambridge, Alex Thomson served in a Christian mission in the former Soviet Union and went on to spend the rest of his twenties as a GCHQ officer. He moved to the Netherlands aged thirty in 2009 and has spent the last decade more quietly as a translator and interpreter and a researcher of networked evil. Since 2014, Alex has presented his emerging findings via the Eastern Approaches brand on UK Column News, where his specialisms are Europe, geopolitics, religious affairs and constitutional matters. He maintains the Eastern Approaches channel, mostly of careful readings of key documents indicating the scope of corruption of British and Western public life. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Learn how an old-timey, crazy, ruthless sport in England eventually evolved and led to the creation of the Denver Broncos NFL football franchise. Caesar, along with his friend (& frequent guest) Fred, recently set out to launch a podcast about interesting timelines in history, and how one thing leads to another. Unfortunately, Fred got busy working on his PHD, and for now the project has been put on the backburner for now. However, this is good news for TGBI listeners, because we have a fun bonus episode about history today! Yay!

Welcome to Episode 1253 in which Marc Millon interviews Hugh Johnson award winning wine and travel writer in this installment of Wine, Food & Travel with Marc Millon on the Italian Wine Podcast. Today's interview is part of a special sub-series dedicated to some of the most influential wine personalities in the business. If you are interested in purchasing a copy of Hugh Johnson's latest book, please visit: https://academieduvinlibrary.com/ and use code ITALIANWINE in the coupon option at the checkout to receive £5 off your purchase! More about today's guest: Hugh Eric Allan Johnson is an English journalist, author, editor, and expert on wine. He is considered the world's best-selling wine writer. A wine he tasted in 1964, a 1540 Steinwein from the German vineyard Würzburger Stein, is considered one of the oldest to have ever been tasted. Hugh was born the son of Guy F. Johnson CBE and Grace Kittel, and educated at Rugby School and read English at King's College, Cambridge. Later on he became a member of the Cambridge University Wine and Food Society while an undergraduate in the 1950s. On describing his introduction to wine-tasting he recalled: “...my room-mate Adrian Cowell, committee member of the University Wine & Food Society came in after dinner with two glasses and said, "Come on, Hugh, are they the same? Or different?" Both were, I am sure, red Burgundy, but one was magic and one was ordinary. This caught my imagination. It was my Damascene moment.” Johnson has been writing about wine since 1960, was taken on as a feature writer for Condé Nast Publications upon graduation, and started work on Vogue and House & Garden, becoming in 1962 editor of Wine & Food and in the same year wine correspondent of The Sunday Times, of which in 1967 he became Travel Editor. From 1968 to 1970 he edited Queen magazine in succession to Jocelyn Stevens. He has published a wide array of books, starting with the publication of Wine in 1966. The World Atlas of Wine (1971) was considered the first serious attempt to map the world's wine regions, described by the director of the INAO as "a major event in wine literature". To learn more about Hugh Johnson visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Johnson_(wine_writer) https://www.decanter.com/author/HughJohnson/ https://winespeed.com/people-to-know/hugh-johnson/ https://www.circleofwinewriters.org/meet-the-member-hugh-johnson-obe/ More about the host Marc Millon: Marc Millon, VIA Italian Wine Ambassador 2021, has been travelling, eating, drinking, learning and writing about wine, food and travel for nearly 40 years. Born in Mexico, with a mother from Hawaii via Korea and an anthropologist father from New York via Paris, he was weaned on exotic and delicious foods. Marc and his photographer wife Kim are the authors of 14 books including a pioneering series of illustrated wine-food-travel books: The Wine Roads of Europe, The Wine Roads of France, The Wine Roads of Italy (Premio Barbi Colombini), and The Wine Roads of Spain. Other titles include The Wine and Food of Europe, The Food Lovers' Companion Italy, The Food Lovers' Companion France, Wine, a global history. Marc regularly lectures and hosts gastronomic cultural tours to Italy and France with Martin Randall Travel, the UK's leading cultural travel specialist. He is soon to begin a regular series on Italian Wine Podcast, ‘Wine, food and travel with Marc Millon'. When not on the road Marc lives on the River Exe in Devon, England To learn more visit: quaypress.uk/ marcmillon.co.uk vino.co.uk quaypress.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marc-millon-50868624 Twitter: @Marc_Millon Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels: Instagram @italianwinepodcast Facebook @ItalianWinePodcast Twitter @itawinepodcast Tiktok @MammaJumboShrimp LinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcast If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin!

In the sophomore episode of 'Self Interrupted with Kit Costello' the lore book is opened and chapter one "school" is read. Kit shares embarrassing and funny stories from their time at an all boys catholic rugby school and how they transitioned into a mixed non religious sixth form. An episode full of anecdotes, self interruption and self refection. Join kit and learn the lore that will be told for generations to come. Kit also catches you up on what has been going on in their week and answers your questions! You can get involved in next weeks episode by sending in questions and story times to www.kitcanbeinteresting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angus Savage heads to Rugby School for NextGenXV to talk to Headmaster Peter Green, his old schoolboy rugby coach, about the school's plans for 2023 - the 200th Anniversary of the game of Rugby Football.They talk International School 7s, the history of the game, William Webb Ellis, and ask of England Rugby; do you have permission to wear white? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Para iniciar este mes de octubre, nuestra Génesis Quintero, nos habló del proyecto "Rugby School Vzla"; una iniciativa que nació como una extensión del equipo de la Universidad Metropolitana y que cumple con el objetivo de a través de este magnífico deporte, generar un impacto social positivo en niños y jóvenes que hacen vida en las comunidades vulnerables de Venezuela, para así ofrecerles también ellos oportunidades de crecimiento y superación personal.

Milton and Shakespeare? Or Homer and Virgil? Why should our students study Greeks and Romans when we have English-language poets, philosophers, and historians worthy to be placed on the same level as the ancients? Maybe because the “ancients” aren't really so ancient after all… So argues Thomas Arnold in his defense of the classical curriculum he instituted at Rugby School. Jonathan and Ryan use Arnold's “Use of the Classics” essay, his defense of classical education, to distinguish between two things that are nowadays often conflated: a “classical” curriculum and a “Great Books” curriculum.Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnOLytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780199555017Helen Andrews's Boomers: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780593086759Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays: https://amzn.to/3vEZNYQNew Humanists is brought to you by the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/Links may have referral codes, which earn us a commission at no additional cost to you. We encourage you, when possible, to use Bookshop.org for your book purchases, an online bookstore which supports local bookstores.Music: Save Us Now by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Biography Early life and family background Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay on 19 June 1947 during the British Raj, into an Indian Kashmiri Muslim family. He is the son of Anis Ahmed Rushdie, a Cambridge-educated lawyer-turned-businessman, and Negin Bhatt, a teacher. Anis Ahmed Rushdie was dismissed from the Indian Civil Services (ICS) after it emerged that the birth certificate submitted by him had changes to make him appear younger than he was. Rushdie has three sisters. He wrote in his 2012 memoir that his father adopted the name Rushdie in honour of Averroes (Ibn Rushd). Rushdie grew up in Bombay and was educated at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Fort, South Bombay before moving to England from India to attend the Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, and then King's College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. After graduating from Cambridge, Rushdie briefly lived with his family in Pakistan (who had moved there from Bombay, India), before moving permanently to the UK. Personal life Rushdie has been married four times. He was married to his first wife, Clarissa Luard from 1976 to 1987 and fathered a son, Zafar (born 1979) who is married to the London-based jazz singer Natalie Rushdie. He left her in the mid-'80s for the Australian writer Robyn Davidson, to whom he was introduced by their mutual friend Bruce Chatwin. His second wife was the American novelist Marianne Wiggins; they were married in 1988 and divorced in 1993. His third wife, from 1997 to 2004, was Elizabeth West; they have a son, Milan (born 1997). In 2004, he married Padma Lakshmi, an Indian-American actress, model, and host of the American reality-television show Top Chef. The marriage ended in 2007. In 1999, Rushdie had an operation to correct ptosis, a problem with the levator palpebrae superioris muscle that causes drooping of the upper eyelid. According to Rushdie, it made it increasingly difficult for him to open his eyes. "If I hadn't had an operation, in a couple of years from now I wouldn't have been able to open my eyes at all," he said. Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States, mostly near Union Square in Lower Manhattan, New York City. He is a fan of the English football club Tottenham Hotspur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie

Closing Season 3 of the Benjamin's Britain podcast, is our guest (and Ben's dad) Steven Salamon. After a recent trip to Rugby on Super Saturday, Ben and Steven talk about their day touring the famous school, it's educational and sporting history and their watching Rugby in town where it all began. This episodes alternative landmark takes us to their hometown of Cardiff. We hope you've enjoyed our season. If you have do drop us a 5* review and follow us on Facebook and Instagram (@benjaminsbritainpod).  See you soon!

GUEST OVERVIEW: After learning what today's British Establishment was all about at Rugby School and Cambridge, Alex Thomson served in a Christian mission in the former Soviet Union and went on to spend the rest of his twenties as a GCHQ officer. He moved to the Netherlands aged thirty in 2009 and has spent the last decade more quietly as a translator and interpreter and a researcher of networked evil. Since 2014, Alex has presented his emerging findings via the Eastern Approaches brand on UK Column News, where his specialisms are Europe, geopolitics, religious affairs and constitutional matters. He maintains the Eastern Approaches channel, mostly of careful readings of key documents indicating the scope of corruption of British and Western public life. SHOW LINKS: UK Column - Full Article "Breaking the Covid Trance: How the Irish People were Psychologically Manipulated" https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/breaking-covid-trance-how-irish-people-were-psychologically-manipulated article/transcript by John Anthony & Dave Cullen ‘Computing Forever'. 'Getting Heavy With Lockdowns And Psychological Warfare'. UK Column News 13th January 2021  https://www.ukcolumn.org/ukcolumn-news/uk-column-news-13th-january-2021 and also available on Bitchute https://www.bitchute.com/video/kWSwDCBJWkk/  13 January 2021 A group of Irish UK Column viewers who all volunteered to get this important info published & Alex Thomson of UKC and formerly of GCHQ speaks on its importance and  this article is part of the The Psychological Attack on the UK series by the UK Column. The World Economic Forum and Belfast and the North, in a 'Message from Klaus Schwab'  3 minute video for the  World Economic Forum 'SHAPE Europe' 2018 event in Belfast where he said, ‘For this reason Northern Ireland was always close to my heart and I'm very proud of having been the first person who succeeded to bring for a very informal, I would say nearly secret meeting all the conflict parties in Northern Ireland together over 20 years ago for her first meeting which actually happened in Davos.' https://youtu.be/5xCAjAKrCdM

I have left a trail of destruction behind me. I hadn't realised until my wife pointed it out to me.

Arthur Gray Butler (1831 - 1909) This is a novel that describes the life of three friends while they are attending Rugby School. The work illustrates for the reader many of the boys' pranks, challenges, sorrows, and victories and, as well, gives a good sense of school life in the middle of the 19th Century. Anyone who looks back with fondness on his or her younger days of schooling will enjoy this work. Genre(s): Published 1900 onward --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/3daudiobooks0/support

Dr Paul Geraghty was born of Irish immigrant parents and raised in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Educated at Lawrence Sheriff Grammar School and Rugby School, he was awarded a travel scholarship and spent a year teaching in Fiji, when he began his research into the dialects of Fiji.  After graduating from Cambridge with an MA in Modern Languages (French and German), he earned his PhD from the University of Hawaii with a dissertation on the history of the Fijian languages. He was recruited as researcher by the Fijian Monolingual Dictionary Project in Suva, which had been recently founded by the American/Canadian actor and philanthropist Raymond Burr.  This project developed into the Institute of Fijian Language and Culture, of which he was Director from 1986 to 2001, being recognized for his service in researching and revitalising Fiji's linguistic and cultural heritage with the award of Officer of the Order of Fiji by the then President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara in 1999.  In 2001 he accepted a position at the University of the South Pacific, having previously written and taught there the first university course in a Pacific language. He is currently Adjunct Associate Professor in Linguistics and working on postgraduate courses in Fijian in addition to conducting wide-ranging research.  He is author and editor of several books, including The History of the Fijian Languages (University of Hawai'i Press), the Lonely Planet Fijian Phrasebook, Borrowing: a Pacific Perspective (Australian National University Press), and The Macquarie Dictionary of English for the Fiji Islands, and numerous articles in professional journals and newspapers on Fijian and Pacific languages, culture, and history. He is also well known in Fiji as a newspaper columnist and radio and TV presenter, currently co-hosting the eighth season of the weekly programme Vueta na Vosa on Fiji TV. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's the big one. The second test of the 2009 Lions tour. The decider. Robbie/Squidge/whatever you want to call him (@SquidgeRugby) and Will (@will_owen9) are here to talk about it.* Or are they? Maybe they'll talk about Big The Cat, Rugby School, feline scrum-halves and Rugby Values instead?*We forgot to do an intro at the start of the pod, so in case you'd forgotten, that's who we are.Thanks as always to Tom Rosenthal for our theme music, expertly remixed by our very own Will Owen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Support the Delingpod!! https://www.subscribestar.com/jamesdelingpole After learning what today's British Establishment was all about at Rugby School and Cambridge, Alex Thomson served in a Christian mission in the former Soviet Union and went on to spend the rest of his twenties as a GCHQ officer. He moved to the Netherlands aged thirty in 2009 and has spent the last decade more quietly as a translator and interpreter and a researcher of networked evil. Since 2014, Alex has presented his emerging findings via the Eastern Approaches brand on UK Column News, where his specialisms are Europe, geopolitics, religious affairs and constitutional matters. He maintains the Eastern Approaches channel, mostly of careful readings of key documents indicating the scope of corruption of British and Western public life.

After learning what today's British Establishment was all about at Rugby School and Cambridge, Alex Thomson served in a Christian mission in the former Soviet Union and went on to spend the rest of his twenties as a GCHQ officer. He moved to the Netherlands aged thirty in 2009 and has spent the last decade […]

Crusader Tom Christie shares his story to the top and what it's like rubbing shoulders with the best in the world. We touch on what makes the Crusaders so successful, why he plays Rugby and his learnings after having sustained a long term injury. TC is a classic example that you don't have to go to a big Rugby School to be successful. And of course we touch on Mental Health! Heaps of gems in here. Enjoy!

Australian Rules Football and the earliest clubs formed to compete, are said to be the oldest established football clubs in the world.  Started in the late 1850s, initially based loosely on the Rugby School game, within 20 years it had evolved to become the basis of Australia's very own, different & distinctive code; Aussie Rules Footy.  (62 mins) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoying the podcast?  Help support the show with a one-off donation --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AustralianHistoriesPodcast.com.au  

Papal calls to crusade were some of the most influential texts in the medieval West: key messages, crafted at the papal court, that were disseminated and preached across Christendom to mobilise men and women of every level of society to take up the crusading cause. These calls were a dynamic element of a crusading society, in which all Christians were responsible for the fate of the Holy Land and could support the crusading movement by bearing arms or offering prayers. How were these calls crafted? How were they interpreted, reshaped and shared by the people of Christendom? In this episode, Dr Sophie Ambler, Deputy Director of the Centre for War and Diplomacy, talks to Dr Thomas Smith about his work investigating papal calls to crusade – both their production and their later life, once they were released ‘into the wild'. Dr Smith is an expert in ecclesiastical and crusading history in the central Middle Ages. After completing his doctorate at Royal Holloway, he was Scouloudi Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and then Leverhulme Study Abroad Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. After two years at Trinity College, Dublin, he was Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Leeds, before joining the History Department at Rugby School in 2019. His early work explored papal policy and financing in relation to the crusading movement, in a number of articles and his first book: Curia and Crusade: Pope Honorius III and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1216-1227, published with Breopls in 2017. He has since undertaken important work in the forensic investigation of various documents related to the crusades, from papal bulls, to letters and chronicles, published across a host of articles in journals such as Historical Research, Viator, Crusades, and the Journal of Ecclesiastical History. He is currently completing his second monograph, on the Letters of the First Crusade, forthcoming with Boydell and Brewer, as well as working with Dr Susan Edgington on a new edition of a neglected chronicle of the First Crusade, traditionally attributed to Bartolf of Nangis. Select works by Thomas Smith: Curia and Crusade: Pope Honorius III and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1216–1227 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017) ‘Audita tremendi and the Call for the Third Crusade Reconsidered, 1187–1188', Viator, 49.3(2020 for 2018), 63–101 ‘How to Craft a Crusade Call: Pope Innocent III and Quia maior (1213)', Historical Research, 92(2019), 2–23 ‘The Dynamism of a Crusade Encyclical: Pope Honorius III and Iustus Dominus (1223)', Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters, 74 (2018), 111–42 Music credit: Kai Engel, 'Flames of Rome', Calls and Echoes (Southern's City Lab, 2014).

Chris Heal speaks to several people involved in community rugby as the situation around the lower levels of the game continues to be discussed. Featured on the podcast are Blackheath head coach James Shanahan, Fylde head coach Warren Spragg and Hinckley head coach Chris Campbell who talk through the potential cup competition for National League clubs. George Foster from The Rugby School as well as Sale Sharks' Sam James joins us to talk about grassroots rugby + Matt Price from the Community Group chats to us about the work which their organisation are currently involved with. The Rugby School: https://therugbyschool.uk/ Community Group: https://www.community-group.co.uk/ Talking Rugby Union: Website - https://www.talkingrugbyunion.co.uk/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/TalkRugbyUnion Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/talkingrugbyunion Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/talkingrugbyunion/

Steven Spurrier born 5th October 1941, was educated at Rugby School and the London School of Economics. In 1964 he joined the wine trade as a trainee with Christopher and Co (established 1665). In 1970 he moved to Paris and purchased Les Caves de la Madeleine, a small shop in the centre of the city, and in 1973 opened L'Academie du Vin, the first independent wine school in France. As a partner, he became involved in divers ventures allied to wine: Le Bistrot a Vin, a winebar/restaurant in the business quarter of La Defense; Le Chemin des Vignes, a warehouse and bottling plant on the outskirts of Paris; Le Moulin du Village and Le Blue Fox, a restaurant and winebar near the Caves de la Madeleine. Spurrier is perhaps best known for having created the tasting between top Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon wines from California and France in May 1976, subsequently referred to as The Judgement of Paris. A recreation of this event was held 30 years to the day on May 24th 2006, simultaneously in London and Napa In 1988, he sold his wine business interests in Paris and returned to the UK to become an independent wine consultant. His clients have included Harrods in London and Hediard in Paris, Singapore Airlines and Christie's for whom he created the Christie's Wine Course in 1982. He is also Consultant Editor for Decanter Magazine and Chairman of the Decanter World Wine Awards, now the world's biggest wine competition, since its inception in 2004 and Chairman of Decanter Asia Wine Awards, Asia's largest wine competition, since 2012. He is the author of eight books on wine of which two: L’Academie du Vin Wine Course and L'Academie du Vin Guide to French Wines have been translated into several languages. Some of the prizes and awards that Steven Spurrier has won include "The Bunch Award" for articles in Decanter in 1996, "Le Prix de Champagne Lanson” in 1997, "Ritz Carlton Millienia Lifetime Achievement Award" in 1999 and "Le Prix Louis Marinier” for writing on Bordeaux in 2000. In 2001 he was awarded "Le Grand Prix de l'Academie Internationale du Vin" (only the third time this award has been given since 1982) and also "The Andre Tchelistcheff Maestro Award” from California. He is married, with two grown-up children, and lives, when not travelling, in London and Dorset. After much reflection and research, he decided with his wife Bella to plant a vineyard on their farm in south Dorset. There are now 25 acres planted to 55% Chardonnay, 25% Pinot Noir and 20% Pinot Meunier to make English Sparkling Wine under the name Bride Valley Vineyards, the first vintage being harvested in October 2011, the month of his 70th birthday. In 2017 he was made Decanter Man of the Year and also Honorary President of the Wine and Spirit Education Trust. In 2018 his memoirs were published under the title “Wine a Way of Life.” In 2019 he created with partners the Academie du Vin Library, which will publish new books and re-publish old classics for world wide distribution.

Rugby is a style of football that originated in England at Rugby School and was played at British public boy’s schools during the 19th century. It’s also the name of a tone poem written by the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger that premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Champes-Elysées on today’s date in 1928 at the very first concert of the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris. In describing his tone poem, Honegger wrote: “I’m very fond of soccer, but rugby is closer to my heart … I’m more keenly attracted by rugby’s rhythm, which is savage, abrupt, chaotic, and desperate. It would be wrong to consider my piece as program music. It simply tries to describe in musical language the game’s attacks and counterattacks, and the rhythm and color of a match.” Now, you would think in such a slam-bang contact sport as rugby that Honegger would employ a big battery of percussion instruments, but—surprise—they are totally absent in his score. Not to worry. There is plenty of rough ‘n’ tumble action between the strings, winds, and brass, but fortunately no protective headgear is required by either the performers OR the listeners.

Rugby is a style of football that originated in England at Rugby School and was played at British public boy’s schools during the 19th century. It’s also the name of a tone poem written by the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger that premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Champes-Elysées on today’s date in 1928 at the very first concert of the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris. In describing his tone poem, Honegger wrote: “I’m very fond of soccer, but rugby is closer to my heart … I’m more keenly attracted by rugby’s rhythm, which is savage, abrupt, chaotic, and desperate. It would be wrong to consider my piece as program music. It simply tries to describe in musical language the game’s attacks and counterattacks, and the rhythm and color of a match.” Now, you would think in such a slam-bang contact sport as rugby that Honegger would employ a big battery of percussion instruments, but—surprise—they are totally absent in his score. Not to worry. There is plenty of rough ‘n’ tumble action between the strings, winds, and brass, but fortunately no protective headgear is required by either the performers OR the listeners.

I am not going to talk about the contents of "Finding Freedom" as many of you may be reading your own copies and I don’t want to spoil anything for you.This past week, Harry joined with players, coaches and volunteers living in the UK and he hosted a quiz as part of the 125th Birthday celebrations for the game of Rugby League. Rugby League was founded in the English town of Huddersfield, breaking away from the sport of Rugby Union, and allowing players to be paid to play.I admit I don't know anything about Rugby, so in the same way when Meghan works with a new charity I research all about it and end up learning lots of new things, I am giving Harry the same curtesy, and I have tried to educate myself a little about Rugby. So who invented Rugby? I am sure men and women around the world argue about this over a pint or two at the pub after a game, but according to my internet search Rugby Union is said to have originated at Rugby School in Warwickshire, England, in 1823 when during a game of football (soccer) a certain William Webb Ellis decided to pick up a ball and go with it. Although there is very little evidence to support this theory, the Rugby World Cup Trophy (Rugby Union) is named after William Webb Ellis.So back to Prince Harry. Harry spoke how rugby league brings communities together. Harry introduced a special guest, Rugby League Legend Ellery Hanley. Ellery spoke of his life-long love for the sport.Harry expressed his admiration for the way the sport has continued to thrive for over 125 years.Check out my blog at https://www.kindthoughtsformeghanmarkle.com/ for photos to go with my podcasts.

This episode I spoke to Rugby School and Birmingham Moseley's Sam Pointon. Enjoy !

Dr. Ron Palenski's new book, Our Game: New Zealand Rugby at 150 offers a fresh take on the beginnings of the game of rugby in this country, with the veteran scribe offering new evidence of a game that was played in Whanganui in 1869. 

Dr. Ron Palenski's new book, Our Game: New Zealand Rugby at 150 offers a fresh take on the beginnings of the game of rugby in this country, with the veteran scribe offering new evidence of a game that was played in Whanganui in 1869. 

Emma and Gil welcome accomplished designer Cole Wehrle, designer of Root, Oath, and Pax Pamir (Second Edition), back to the show (Cole previously appeared on Ludology 163 - A Pain in the Asymmetry). We discuss fairness in games. Has it been around for as long as we think it has? What can an "unfair" game do that other games can't? Cole is a staff designer at Leder Games, and co-founded  Wehrlegig Games with his brother Drew. SHOW NOTES 2m18s: You can watch Cole's GDC talk here. 12m02s: Learn more about Twilight Imperium (this is the most recent version, but there were previous versions with slightly different rulesets) 13m52s: Learn more about Memoir '44. 14m25s: Learn more about Scythe. 16m04s: Learn more about Blood Rage and Sushi Go! 19m30s: Gil remembers a bunch of Viking games in the mid-aughts. One of the biggest was Michael Kiesling's Vikings, whose gameplay, while clever, did little to evoke actual Vikings. 22m41s: The book Strike Four was recommended to me by Dennis Goodman, who is himself a baseball historian and rules expert, and has written a streamlined rulebook for the sport. 24m16s: The book Cole refers to is The Games Ethic and Imperialism (Sport in the Global Society) by J. A. Mangan. 25m14s: I'm referring to the book The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer/Football, by David Goldblatt. The exact title depends on if you buy the US or UK version; this link is to the US version. 27m07s: Cole refers to the book Making England Western, by Saree Makdisi. 27m33s: Thomas Arnold was headmaster of Rugby School from 1828, and was influential in reforming the British public school system. Tom Brown's School Days was written by Thomas Hughes and published in 1857, and popularized British public schools as a literary setting.  28m11s: If you're curious, here is the official 2019 NFL rulebook. If your eyes aren't crossed yet, here is the official 2019 MLB rulebook (though note Dennis Goodman's streamlined take on the rules of baseball, mentioned above). And to finish you off, here is the official ICC web page on all the Playing Conditions of every form of cricket (although to be fair, they have to handle all three major forms of the game - imagine if the NFL rulebook had to account for Canadian and Arena Football as well!) Side note: I also checked out the official Laws of World Rugby Union, and I was stunned to see how clearly-written they were! They are made to be read by a layperson, not a lawyer, and come with many video examples of rule violations. 30m42s: This is a good time to remind you to check out Scott Rogers' Biography of a Board Game last week for The Game of the Goose. It's not technically a Victorian board game - no one knows how old it is - but it's the template for many Victorian parlor games. (I wish we could say we planned these episodes to run consecutively, but it was just a happy coincidence!) 32m08s: We're discussing The Landlord's Game, by Elizabeth Magie  (interestingly, Hasbro still does not officially acknowledge Magie's role in the creation of Monopoly, perhaps for legal reasons) 32m56s: More like 150-175 years old, really. Most sports rules began getting formally codified in the mid-19th century (though cricket had already started getting codified in the 18th century). 33m14s: The Eton Wall Game is still played today. And yes, there's video of it! Note that Eton has a second code of football, the Eton Field Game, which is closer to soccer, but still contains many elements found in rugby. There's a video of the Eton Field Game  here. 36m34s: Cole is referring to Bernie De Koven and his book The Well-Played Game. He also refers to the games Acquire and Caylus. 37m23s: To Emma's point, Prussian college professor Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig invented the first wargame in 1780, but it was Kriegsspiel, designed by Prussian nobleman George Leopold von Reisswitz in 1812 and refined by his soldier son Georg Heinrich Rudolf Johann von Reisswitz in 1824, that introduced realism and verisimilitude into the form. Note that these wargames were designed more for military training than recreation. 37m43s: H.G. Wells, who wrote many seminal science-fiction novels like The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds, was also a game designer. In his books Floor Games and Little Wars, he establishes rules for the first recreational wargames. (Also, the idea of games solving world problems is still alive, most notably by Jane McGonigal in her book Reality is Broken.) 38m53s: Alexander Pope's classic (albeit somewhat overly-dramatically-named) poem The Rape of the Lock. Read it here. 39m58s: Roger Caillois' Man, Play and Games, written in 1961, probably deserves its own episode. 42m00s: Hare and Tortoise is, of course, the first Spiel des Jahres winner. (On a related note, Scott's Biography of a Board Game about Eurogames is a really good listen on this subject.) Cole then mentions Die Macher and Catan. 46m20s: I did not come up with this "roll a die at the end of a game of Chess to see who wins" thought experiment, but I can't remember where I read it! Maybe Characteristics of Games? 47m29s: Relevant quote from Mike Selinker from Ludology 189 - Missing Selinker: "Frustration is a valuable, positive thing up to a point. You’ve just got to know where the table flip is." 48m08s: Cole is kind enough to mention Gil's forthcoming game High Rise after playing it at GDC 2019. Cole gave his talk on defending kingmaking; Gil gave his talk on how indirect interaction in games can be good. 52m21s: More info about Descent, Dark Venture, and Tomb. 59m30s: More info about Byzantine themes. 1h04m44s: More info about Liberté. 1h06m36s: More info about The History of Rome podcast. 1h08m58s: The political compass of Root, as suggested by Reddit user u/orionsbelt05.

Mark Alexander is a former student of Rugby School and King’s College London who was imprisoned in 2010 at the age of 22. He has since completed both his undergraduate and postgraduate law degrees in prison, as well as achieving Grade 8 piano. Mark’s essay is being read by an actor. His essay is entitled: The case for decriminalisation.

In this episode I sit down with Clay, the player turned friend. I've​ known clay since 2013 which is the same year I started coaching him.

Since the end of the Second World War, the international rules-based system has been determined by developed countries with economic power who came together to form multilateral organizations like the United Nations. In today’s world, other nations with conflicting interests are challenging the foundations of the UN and this international rules-based system, making it difficult to reach consensus on pressing global issues like climate change, migration, terror, protectionism, and pandemics. How do we begin to repair this broken international rules-based system? Andrew Mitchell, British Member of Parliament and Former Secretary of State for International Development, discusses ways in which the UN can be adapted to today’s globalized society. Today on CID’s Speaker Series podcast, Anna Mysliwiec, Masters in Public Policy student at the Harvard Kennedy School, interviews Andrew Mitchell who provides further insight on the deterioration of the international rules-based system and how the world can begin to repair it. // www.growthlab.cid.harvard.edu // Interview recorded on October 5, 2018. About Andrew Mitchell: Andrew was born in 1956 and is married with two daughters. He was educated at Rugby School and Cambridge University, where he studied history and was elected as President of the Cambridge Union in 1978. Andrew served in the Army (Royal Tank Regiment) before joining Lazard where he worked with British companies seeking large-scale overseas contracts. He was the Member of Parliament for Gedling from 1987 to 1997. During this period, he held office as a Government Whip and as Minister for Social Security. He also served as a Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1992 to 1993. In 2001 he was re-elected to Parliament as MP for Sutton Coldfield. In November 2003, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Economic Affairs. From September 2004 until the end of the Parliamentary term, he was Shadow Minister for Home Affairs. Following the General Election in May 2005 Andrew joined the Shadow Cabinet and was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for International Development. Andrew Mitchell was Secretary of State for International Development from May 2010 until September 2012 and Government Chief Whip from September – October 2012. An experienced and highly effective MP, Andrew is committed to serving the people of Sutton Coldfield. Andrew is currently campaigning on a number of important local issues in Sutton Coldfield including issues affecting our local environment and the general well-being of the Sutton Coldfield community. He is very active in addressing issues of local development where he feels they adversely affect the Town. He actively supports a number of local charities including Breastfriends, Norman Laud Association, Sutton Coldfield Branch of the RNLI, Parkinson’s Disease Society, Sutton Coldfield Sea Cadets, Greenacres, and Sutton Coldfield Guiding. Since becoming Sutton Coldfield’s MP he is particularly pleased to have achieved the reinstatement of the Sutton Coldfield Civic Service and established the Sutton Coldfield Inter-Schools Debating Competition. As Sutton Coldfield’s MP, Andrew deals with hundreds of letters and emails from constituents every week. He has a dedicated staff of 5 people to assist him with this work. The issues raised are wide ranging and can fall within the responsibility of Government Departments or Birmingham City Council as well as a number of the agencies that now administer specific matters such as immigration, benefits and the environment. In addition he holds regular Advice Sessions where constituents can see him to discuss political issues or matters of personal concern. Andrew has a home in Sutton Coldfield and spends as much time as possible regularly visiting local schools, businesses and voluntary organisations.

From the World Cup player who wouldn’t head the ball because of his hair style to submarines on football pitches, we’ve got you covered for all you need to know about the history of soccer! All in time for kick off at Russia 2018!   For after you’ve listened, here’s the whole True (T) or False (F) quiz - with answers!  1. The earliest evidence regarding football is that dinosaurs used to kick small animals around in small-sided games (F) 2. Centuries ago in England, soccer was played by kicking an animal’s bladder across the countryside (T) 3. The Romans, Greeks and Ancient Chinese all used to play a type of soccer about 2,000 years or more ago (T) 4. Soldiers used to celebrate their victories by using their enemies skulls as footballs (T)   5. In medieval England, soccer was banned by some kings because it distracted men from doing their archery practice (T) 6. King Henry VIII was so good at soccer that he even played for Chelsea once in a friendly against Arsenal (F) 7. After the English Civil War in England 350 years ago, people were sent to prison for playing or even watching football on Sundays (T) 8. In the nineteenth century – the 1800s – some British schools, including Rugby School, decided to allow soccer players to run while holding the ball (T) 9. During the nineteenth century one man, Chester U. Knighted, was executed for playing football on Queen Victoria’s birthday! (F) 10. The first World Cup was played in Athens in the third century BC (F) 11. Uruguay have won the World Cup more times than England (T) 12. The greatest soccer club in the world is Portsmouth FC (T!) 13. The greatest player in World Cup history is called Edson (T – it’s Pele’s real name) 14. During World War I Germany and Britain had a ceasefire and played a football match on Christmas Day (T) 15. The World Cup trophy spent World War II hidden from the Nazis, under a bed in Italy (T) 16. Everton F C started as a Sunday School team (T) 17. Arsenal F C started as a team of prisoners (F – Arsenal was originally formed in 1886 by a group of workers at the Woolwich armaments factory in south London) 18. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company football club became Manchester United F C (T) 19. Sunderland F C started as a team of teachers (T) 20. In 1966 the trophy was stolen but then found in a bin by a hamster called Pickled (F – found under a hedge by a dog called Pickles) 21. Soccer is known as ‘The Painful Game’ (F – The Beautiful Game) 22. When Germany won the World Cup for the third time in 1970 they were allowed to keep the trophy (T) 23. More people watch the World Cup on TV than any other sporting event, including the Olympics (T) 24. About 200 countries tried to qualify for this year’s World Cup (T) 25. LA Galaxy is called that because of the ‘galaxy’ of star celebrities for which Los Angeles is famous (T)   James got 18/25 - but he is a Professor of Football! How did you do? Tell us on:  Instagram, Twitter and Facebook  Please rate and review us wherever you get podcasts. And share our podcast on social media and recommend it to friends – that's how we'll keep going. Look on our webpage for photos that accompany each episode. See you in two weeks! Podcast cover art by Molly Austin Instrumental music by Kevin MacLeod Sound effects used under RemArc Licence include the crowd at the 1966 World Cup Final and the spectator reaction to Portsmouth scoring a goal against Carlisle in 1985. Copyright 2018 © BBC.

Our new bonus series exploring the history of rugby with the incomparable Professor Tony Collins kicks off with a look at the history of rugby in England from its beginnings at Rugby School to the The Great Split with what became Rugby League. In it many questions will be answered, did Webb Ellis really invent a game? Why did Blackheath rugby club think of Frenchman? Who are the Flamingoes? Why didn't the pro sport of Rugby League catch on across England? Why is rugby so much less popular than soccer? And many more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The 2017 Six Nations rugby tournament concluded this weekend. England successfully defended its championship, despite losing the last match against a strong Ireland side in Dublin–England’s only loss of the competition. Meanwhile, the new Super Rugby season just began, with clubs traveling between Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and now Argentina and Japan. Later this year, women’s sides from twelve countries, including Spain, Canada, and Hong Kong, will compete in the Women’s Rugby World Cup. Meanwhile, here in the US, rugby for women and girls has boomed in recent years, with more than 400,000 participants on club, high school, and university teams. And of course, that is all rugby union. Theres also the separate code of rugby league, which is most popular in northern England, New Zealand, and areas of Australia. As historian Tony Collins explains in The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby (Bloomsbury, 2015), rugby not only has a worldwide reach, it has been influential in the development of other sports. American, Canadian, and Australian football all developed from rugby in the 19th century. Even ice hockey can trace its roots to the sport. Tonys award-winning book offers a raucous and readable account of how this game that began among students at Rugby School in the 1840s has become the global, commercialized sport of today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2017 Six Nations rugby tournament concluded this weekend. England successfully defended its championship, despite losing the last match against a strong Ireland side in Dublin–England’s only loss of the competition. Meanwhile, the new Super Rugby season just began, with clubs traveling between Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and now Argentina and Japan. Later this year, women’s sides from twelve countries, including Spain, Canada, and Hong Kong, will compete in the Women’s Rugby World Cup. Meanwhile, here in the US, rugby for women and girls has boomed in recent years, with more than 400,000 participants on club, high school, and university teams. And of course, that is all rugby union. Theres also the separate code of rugby league, which is most popular in northern England, New Zealand, and areas of Australia. As historian Tony Collins explains in The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby (Bloomsbury, 2015), rugby not only has a worldwide reach, it has been influential in the development of other sports. American, Canadian, and Australian football all developed from rugby in the 19th century. Even ice hockey can trace its roots to the sport. Tonys award-winning book offers a raucous and readable account of how this game that began among students at Rugby School in the 1840s has become the global, commercialized sport of today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2017 Six Nations rugby tournament concluded this weekend. England successfully defended its championship, despite losing the last match against a strong Ireland side in Dublin–England’s only loss of the competition. Meanwhile, the new Super Rugby season just began, with clubs traveling between Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and now Argentina and Japan. Later this year, women’s sides from twelve countries, including Spain, Canada, and Hong Kong, will compete in the Women’s Rugby World Cup. Meanwhile, here in the US, rugby for women and girls has boomed in recent years, with more than 400,000 participants on club, high school, and university teams. And of course, that is all rugby union. Theres also the separate code of rugby league, which is most popular in northern England, New Zealand, and areas of Australia. As historian Tony Collins explains in The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby (Bloomsbury, 2015), rugby not only has a worldwide reach, it has been influential in the development of other sports. American, Canadian, and Australian football all developed from rugby in the 19th century. Even ice hockey can trace its roots to the sport. Tonys award-winning book offers a raucous and readable account of how this game that began among students at Rugby School in the 1840s has become the global, commercialized sport of today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2017 Six Nations rugby tournament concluded this weekend. England successfully defended its championship, despite losing the last match against a strong Ireland side in Dublin–England’s only loss of the competition. Meanwhile, the new Super Rugby season just began, with clubs traveling between Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and now Argentina and Japan. Later this year, women’s sides from twelve countries, including Spain, Canada, and Hong Kong, will compete in the Women’s Rugby World Cup. Meanwhile, here in the US, rugby for women and girls has boomed in recent years, with more than 400,000 participants on club, high school, and university teams. And of course, that is all rugby union. Theres also the separate code of rugby league, which is most popular in northern England, New Zealand, and areas of Australia. As historian Tony Collins explains in The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby (Bloomsbury, 2015), rugby not only has a worldwide reach, it has been influential in the development of other sports. American, Canadian, and Australian football all developed from rugby in the 19th century. Even ice hockey can trace its roots to the sport. Tonys award-winning book offers a raucous and readable account of how this game that began among students at Rugby School in the 1840s has become the global, commercialized sport of today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2017 Six Nations rugby tournament concluded this weekend. England successfully defended its championship, despite losing the last match against a strong Ireland side in Dublin–England’s only loss of the competition. Meanwhile, the new Super Rugby season just began, with clubs traveling between Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and now Argentina and Japan. Later this year, women’s sides from twelve countries, including Spain, Canada, and Hong Kong, will compete in the Women’s Rugby World Cup. Meanwhile, here in the US, rugby for women and girls has boomed in recent years, with more than 400,000 participants on club, high school, and university teams. And of course, that is all rugby union. Theres also the separate code of rugby league, which is most popular in northern England, New Zealand, and areas of Australia. As historian Tony Collins explains in The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby (Bloomsbury, 2015), rugby not only has a worldwide reach, it has been influential in the development of other sports. American, Canadian, and Australian football all developed from rugby in the 19th century. Even ice hockey can trace its roots to the sport. Tonys award-winning book offers a raucous and readable account of how this game that began among students at Rugby School in the 1840s has become the global, commercialized sport of today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Duke of Wellington never said the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton but it could be argued that the might of the British Empire was moulded on the pitches of Rugby School. As Clare Balding continues to chart the way the British have shaped sport and sport has shaped Britain, she visits Rugby to discover how the visionary headmaster, Thomas Arnold, ensured games lay at the heart of school life, producing men ready to rule. As the school archivist, Rusty MacLean, explains to her, on leaving, these pupils took the games they'd developed at Rugby to all parts of the globe, giving birth to numerous national sporting clubs in Africa and India, as well as developing new games like Aussie Rules and American football. Readers, Brian Bowles, Stuart McLoughlin and Jack Firth Producer: Lucy Lunt.