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A brief history of women’s football: from Mary, Queen of Scots to the FIFA Women’s World Cup
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World Cup history: everything you wanted to know
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What a pickle: how England lost, found and won the World Cup in a single year
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Sportswashing: a historical perspective on a current trend
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A brief history of the Hillsborough disaster and justice campaigner Anne Williams
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5 facts about the history of football
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Did the First World War Christmas truce football match really happen?
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1921: the year when football banned women
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The history of Luzhniki Stadium, home of the 2018 football World Cup final
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The World Cup story
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English gardens and Latin American football
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Brazil: where sport and politics have always mixed
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