The history of Arsenal website

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The  journal of the AISA Arsenal History Society

The Arsenal History Society is part of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association – a body which gives positive support to the club, and has regular meetings with directors and senior officials of the club to represent the views of its members to the club.  You can read more about AISA on its website.

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For all other issues please contact Arsenal History Society at Tony@schools.co.uk

100 Years in the First Division: the absolute complete story of Arsenal’s promotion in 1919.

Publications

“Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football” is the definitive history of Arsenal from its inception as a league club through to its first year at Highbury, and reveals dramatic elements of Arsenal’s early days that have never been revealed before.

“Making the Arsenal” is a journalist’s inside view of the events around Arsenal’s collapse in 1910 and the rescue that paved the way for the move to Highbury and the arrival of Herbert Chapman.

Both books are now available on Kindle and in print.    Please see here for more details. 

Highlights

Today’s Arsenal Anniversaries: For the latest story please see the top story in “Recent Posts” on the left of this page.  For the index month by month please see under “Pages” on the right side of the screen.  The file for each month is updated at least once a year, normally at the end of  that month.

Henry Norris at the Arsenal:  There is a full index to the series here.

Arsenal in the 1930s: The most comprehensive series on the decade ever

Arsenal in the 1970s: Every match and every intrigue reviewed in detail.

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”.

Our three giant series are shown above.  Here are some of the other popular series that have been written recently or are actively being updated at  the moment.

• 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
• 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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