Our current project is to build a complete Chronology of Arsenal – an index in date order to our articles charting the history of the club. The indexes are still being built, but we are getting there as fast as we can
Part One: 1886 and on to the first world war
The Chronology of Arsenal part 2 – from the first world war onwards
The Chronology of Arsenal part 3 – the 1930s
You might also be interested in our earlier series: Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order.
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Arseanal’s 100 seasons in the top division: the 1939/40 war season
1 June 1940: Arsenal 5 Southampton 0 in the final wartime League South “C” Division game. Because of the abandonment of the actual League programme after three matches the wartime league had not started until the end of October, hence its late finish. The next season however still started in August.
10 May 1941: Arsenal draw in the wartime cup final at Wembley
My first Arsenal game: May 1941.
9 April 1943: Remembering Jimmy Ashcroft – Arsenal’s first great goalkeeper
When Cup matches continued until there was a result! 1945/6 and today’s anniversaries
Dr Kevin O’Flanagan Arsenal: 1945/1948
16 January 1946: when extra time meant playing on until someone scores
Arsenal in the summer. 1947: The Phoenix rises out of the ashes
Arsenal in the summer: 1946, back from the war
10 April 1948: Arsenal win the League in Whittaker’s first season
100 years at the top. 1948/9 – expectations are high and Brazil beckons
Memories of Highbury: April 3rd 1948
10 April 1948: Arsenal win the league for the sixth time
On this day in 1949 – Arsenal players start the second half with a fag!
