AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
Recent articles…. 1898/9: Home form is great but why is away form so dodgy? Arsenal’s early seasons: 1897/8 Arsenal’s greatest achievements: the strugle to break even and rise up the league How Arsenal Matchday Culture Changed Over Time By Tony Attwood The title of the last episode says it all 1898/9: Home form is …
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by Tony Attwood Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Here’s the question: who was the manager on this date? The answer is Arthur Kennedy – but very …
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By Tony Attwood Peter Duerden, a Blackpool FC supporter and historian, recently got in touch asking about the Arsenal team for a match against Blackpool in 1899 – I’ve naturally done what I can to help. In return Peter has very kindly taken the trouble to provide local newspaper reports from Blackpool for the games, …
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This website has been built sometimes in a logical chronological sequence and sometimes because a subject turns up, we do some research, and write an article – just because it was an interesting thing to do. So although there is some order to the articles, that order is not completely adhered to. …
Prelude: Having published hundreds of articles on the topic of Arsenal and its early days we have now started to try and put them in some sort of order. The indexes provided are unfortunately not comprehensive, but the process of making this history complete and navigable is now under way. Producing the website The …
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The History of Arsenal Arsenal’s early days in the Football league Why Arsenal joined the Football League rather than the Southern League Just what have been Arsenal’s greatest achievements? What have been Arsenal’s greatest achievements (Part 2) Arsenal’s greatest achievements: part 3 – marginal improvements 1895/6 Arsenal’s greatest achievements: the strugle to break even and …
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This is the story of Arsenal and its move from south London to Highbury. The story is being published as it is written, and it is therefore possible that moments and issue may have been missed – and if you see anything amiss please do write to Tony@schools.co.uk with details and the details of …
Read More “From Dial Square to Highbury, why and how Arsenal moved from south to north London”
Recent articles in this series Arsenal finally gain promotion to the First Division Arsenal at the start of the 20th century: the first promotion to Division 1 Arsenal 1899/1900: keeping professional football alive in the south As we have seen in the last episode of this series, finally on 3 September 1904 Arsenal, having …
Read More “1904/5: Arsenal’s first season in Football League Division One, and a record crowd”
Note: this series serves as an introduction to Arsenal’s great achievement of 100 consecutive years in the top division of the Football League. You can find an index to that series (which is now complete) on this website here. This series follows on from … Why Arsenal joned the Football League rather than the …
Read More “Arsenal finally gain promotion to the First Division”
Recent articles in this series… Arsenal 1899/1900: keeping professional football alive in the south 1898/9: Home form is great but why is away form so dodgy? Arsenal’s early seasons: 1897/8 Arsenal’s greatest achievements: the strugle to break even and rise up the league How Arsenal Matchday Culture Changed Over Time By Tony Attwood 9th, …
Read More “Arsenal at the start of the 20th century: the first promotion to Division 1”
Recent posts in this series Arsenal’s early seasons: 1897/8 Arsenal’s greatest achievements: the strugle to break even and rise up the league How Arsenal Matchday Culture Changed Over Time Arsenal’s greatest achievements: part 3 – marginal improvements 1895/6 What have been Arsenal’s greatest acheivements? (Part 2) By Tony Attwood I mentioned in the last …
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The 1919 Affair: How Arsenal were promoted to the first division – the only complete and detailed history of Arsenal’s election. Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Henry …
Read More “Arsenal’s first ever league match: 2nd September”
A full list of August anniversaries can be found here. Today’s headline comes from 1928. 25 August 1867: Death of Michael Faraday, the first man to understand electromagnetism. 25 August 1899. The chairman and benefactor of Woolwich Arsenal George Leavey warned his players about drinking too much before a match. “No man with a …
Today’s Arsenal’s anniversaries are below – the headline comes from 1995. There are more details of our articles on the home page and at the bottom of this page. 15 June 1899: George Leavey was elected chair of Woolwich Arsenal. Through his extensive chain of gentleman’s outfitters including one in Plumstead he became to be a …
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Details of some of our special reports and investigations into Arsenal’s history are given on the home page. Our headline story today comes from 2013. 5 June 1903: Fred Dwight signed for Arsenal. He played for Chesham Town from 1899 until 1901 when he moved to Fulham, and then after a further two years moved …
Read More “On this day Arsenal announce their record signing would be released from his contract”
Please join our association: its free! If you enjoy our daily review of Arsenal’s history please do show your appreciation by becoming an associate member of AISA – Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association. It’s completely free, but being a member does make a statement that you value our work not just in recording Arsenal’s …
Read More “The anniversary of the sad Europa League final in Azerbaijan”
Data compiled by Tony Attwood. Details of some of our special reports and investigations into Arsenal’s history are given on the home page. Today’s headline comes from 1912 24 May 1890: Ernest Williamson born. He was signed by Arsenal from Croydon Common after that club became the only Southern League club that failed to return to …
Read More “The game that shows Arsenal and Spurs did not fall out over Arsenal’s move north”
Please join our association: it’s free! If you enjoy our daily review of Arsenal’s history please do show your appreciation by becoming an associate member of AISA – Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association. It’s completely free, but being a member does make a statement that you value our work not just in recording Arsenal’s history …
Read More “18 May: Henry Norris offered to buy Arsenal and pay off their debts… but…”
By Tony Attwood Today’s highlighted anniversaries come from 1919 and 1959 Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Details of some more series can be found at the …
Read More “The passing of the man who wrecked Arsenal’s reputation”
Compiled by Tony Attwood Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Details of our other series can be found on the home page Today’s headline comes from 1893 29 …
Read More “29 April: Farewell Royal Arsenal hello Woolwich Arsenal”
Compiled by Tony Attwood Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Details of our other series can be found on the home page Today’s headline comes from 1971 26 …
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Compiled by Tony Attwood Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Details of our other series can be found on the home page Today’s headline comes from 2004 25 …
Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Details of our other series can be found on the home page Today’s headline comes from 1921. 15 April 1894: Patrick O’Brien, …
Read More “When northern clubs united against the south and Arsenal travelled by horse drawn coach”
Today’s headline anniversary headline comes from 2001 Elsewhere Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Details of our other series can be found on the home page 8 April 1891: Arsenal …
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Today on Untold Arsenal: Allegations of where Manchester City’s money actually came from Today’s anniversary headline comes from 1910 25 March 1893: Millwall Athletic 0 Arsenal 1. See also here 6000 turned up for the game, as Arsenal prepared to enter the Football League. Millwall stayed outside that League, but did ultimately join the United League …
Read More “Arsenal play three games in four days and meet to discuss their financial collapse”
