The history of Arsenal website

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The  journal of the AISA Arsenal History Society

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This website had over 950,000 page views in the last 12 months. 

Happy birthday Mr Wenger.

Today’s Arsenal anniversaries

• Arsène Wenger born and immediately a newspaper accuses Arsenal of dirty habits

Latest stories

Meeting a player you have admired can be such a very strange experience.: Brian Talbot comes to the Arsenal Independent Supporters AGM.

Adventurer, criminal, wife beater, drunk, reprobate; the most prolific Arsenal goal scorer of all time.

Latest in the Henry Norris series: 

• Arsenal March 1927: from regular turmoil to total turmoil and the edge of the cliff

The current series: Covering all aspects off the life and work of the man who rescued Arsenal from extinction, secured the club’s future by moving it to Highbury, and then brought in Herbert Chapman as manager, our current series of articles is on Henry Norris at the Arsenal.  The series is being worked on daily, and the articles thus far are here.

“Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football” and “Making the Arsenal” are both available on Kindle, but orders for the printed copies cannot be processed at the moment as I am currently away travelling.  Please  see here for more details

The series

This site is based around series of articles on specific themes – and you can find links to many of these on this page and on the left column under the heading “Pages”.

Here are some of the more popular series that have been written recently or are actively being updated at  the moment.

• Arsenal in the 30s
• Arsenal players in the 30s
• Arsenal in the summer – now over 50 articles.
• The First League Season, including a review of each player who played in that season
• Arsenal day by day – over 5000 anniversaries of the club
• Arsenal in the 70s
• Tom Whittaker, player, coach, manager

Earlier series

• Arsenal Managers – from Royal Arsenal to Mr Wenger
• Arsenal’s name and how it changed
• Arsenal and Tottenham
• Anti-Arsenal – those who try to put us down throughout history
• Arsenal’s Chronology
• Arsenal History Society news and discoveries
• Chairmen of Arsenal
• Corruption: The Review
• The First Double: 1971
• First Timers: The first time I saw Arsenal
• Iconic moments in the history of Arsenal
• Into the Darkness. Arsenal under Swindin
• Islington 100: celebrating 100 years of Arsenal in Islington
• London – how Arsenal fared in the early days against other London teams
• Meet the ancestors- stories from the relatives of Arsenal players
• The origins of Arsenal
• Players, including updates on what players are doing now
• Quizzes
• The Norris Files
• Statistics through the club’s history
• Woolwich Arsenal, the ground
• Woolwich Arsenal in the FA Cup – the full series
• Woolwich 100 – the players who played 100 or more times for WA
• Year by year: tracing the club’s history in detail

If you would like to contribute research or a personal story please do write to TonyAttwoodofLondon@gmail.com

Some stories you might enjoy

• The complete story of Ted Drake scoring seven in one match in December 1935
• Why was the first Arsenal side called Dial Square, and why did it only last one game?
• New major article: Herbert Chapman’s first year at Arsenal, analysed as never before.
• A Memorial to the founders of Arsenal’s Highbury dynasty.

• The very odd case of Frank Ransom
• The wandering James Devlin, and an insight into the workings of the early game
• The curious life of Jimmy Dunne: Herbert Chapman’s last major signing
• When the anti-Arsenal menace and the media sank to the depths
• Winning the youth cup in 2009 – what is that team doing today?
• Arsenal become only the second team in the 20th/21st centuries to win the cup two years running, twice.

Among the other recent Posts

• Ralph Guthrie: he played twice in goal for Arsenal in 1954
• Arsenal v Tottenham; when friendship broke out on 24 May
• The moment that changed it all: Arsenal looked towards professionalism
• Celebrating the birthday of one of our greatest players, 
• 20 May Arsenal events: from the king’s funeral to the cup double
• The day Arsenal went to the wall, and the man who brought us back from the dead.
• 4 Arsenal cup finals and 4 last ever games.
• George Jobey, the real story of the man who scored the first Arsenal goal at Highbury
• From going bust to winning the cup. 
• From the advert that made Chapman apply to Arsenal to scoring 7 and 8.
• From Bergkamp to Boldklubben Frem
• Ehud ‘Tim’ Rogers; a Welsh winger whose chances were limited
• The strange case of Jack Lee and Arsenal’s link to Chesterfield.
• The completely mysterious Archibald Low
• Nicolas Anelka: the man who could have played alongside Thierry Henry
• Jon Sammels: wonderful player, victim of the 1960s Anti-Arsenal “fans”
• Arsenal 7 Hibernian 1. Arsenal’s first televised game under the lights.
• Arsenal and Arsène Wenger create new FA Cup records
• Eddie Carr played 12 games for Arsenal and won us the league!

Please note: The full anniversaries index can be found here.  

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Reports on Arsenal’s current activities are on Untold Arsenal

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Classic Articles and series from the Arsenal History Society

• The biggest injury problems ever faced by an Arsenal manager
• Arsenal’s promotion in 1919.  At last, the truth
• Exclusive: The interview with George Davie – the man who sued Arsenal and overturned the transfer system.
• The article that led to the creation of the statues at the Emirates Stadium

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