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The Arsenal History Project
Latest articles
Arsenal v Manchester United, 1 September 1910
The train is evacuated, the taxi takes us to the wrong ground…
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100 years ago: Woolwich Arsenal in Division One
The Arsenal team on the first day of the season 100 years ago: some famous names appear.
Arsenal prepare for kick off after the most traumatic of summers
Full index of articles about the 1910/11 season
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Stories from fans of their first appearances in the Arsenal crowd
Click here for a full index of the stories supplied by readers
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The history of Arsenal and Tottenham
How did a club from Middlesex and one from Kent end us as bitter enemies?
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The Norris Files
The book “Making the Arsenal” covers a lot of the history of Henry Norris. In this section you can read a few selected articles about the man and his activities.
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Arsenal in wartime feature
My first Arsenal game – May 1941
Arsenal between the wars – part one – supporting in the Channel Islands
Arsenal at war – watching Arsenal during World War II
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The complete index of Woolwich Arsenal managers
Of course there have been articles written before listing the managers that Woolwich Arsenal FC had – but we believe we’ve actually gathered some extra detail not considered before in our series on The managers. For example, did you you know that one of the new managers brought in a totally new team and threw out all of the old squad?
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CORRUPTION SPECIAL
Football in the 19th century and early 20th century was not as straight as it might have been. Here we tell the tales of some of the events that crossed Arsenal’s path, and explain why not everything you hear should be believed. From the dark history of Chelsea to the unsavoury aspects of Tottenham’s early years, plus a special feature on the promotion of 1919.
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Woolwich Arsenal’s season 1909/1910
This site contains numerous articles on the 1909/10 season. Unfortunately they haven’t been gathered into one index yet. That’s the next job. But you can still find them by searching for articles written from January 2010 on – they mostly relate to events 100 years before.
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Special features
The Woolwich Arsenal player who transformed Italian football. The curious parallels between a Woolwich Arsenal player who moved abroad, and the man who transformed our club at home.
When football journalists could write – a newspaper review of an Arsenal match from 80 years ago: Arsenal in the 1930s
Why did Arsenal move to Highbury and not somewhere else? Tottenham Hotspur led a who group of clubs in objecting to the move (even Birmingham clubs objected, which somehow lessened Tottenham’s case). But Arsenal claimed that neither the League nor the FA rules covered the location of the ground
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Read the book: Making the Arsenal
In preparation: Woolwich Arsenal – the Complete History
“Making the Arsenal” is the story of Arsenal from the perspective of a journalist, in 1910.
Many of the articles on this site will appear, often in enlarged form, in the forthcoming book “Woolwich Arsenal: The Complete History”. Details of his publication will appear shortly. Meanwhile if you have any enquiries about the book, or would like to contribute, please do email Tony.Attwood@aisa.org
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Arsenal FC, Arsenal Independent Supporters Assn, and this site
Click here for details of the involvement of Arsenal FC and AISA in the site.
About the site
This site, run in association with Arsenal Independent Supporters Association, charts the history of Arsenal FC from the fans’ view. At present we are focussing on three areas – but that is not to say we don’t welcome contributions on other topics.
1: Articles from supporters on seeing Arsenal live for the first time.
2: Woolwich Arsenal 100 years ago
3: Articles on the history of Arsenal which tell stories which have not been told, or have been mis-told elsewhere.
If you would like to contribute please email Tony.Attwood@aisa.org
A companion site: Untold Arsenal, records details of Arsenal in the present day.
Arsenal Worldwide covers issues from the perspective of Arsenal fans living outside the UK
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