Issue 01: The 1921 Ban as Cultural Erasure

In 1920, 53,000 people watched a women’s match at Goodison Park — the biggest crowd football had ever recorded. A year later, the FA banned women from their grounds. This 18-page issue tells the story of what came next: fifty years of erasure, and what it cost.

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