Twickenham: The Home of England Rugby

in Association with the RFU, McGowan, Phil

ISBN 10: 1445620936 / ISBN 13: 9781445620930

Published by Amberley Publishing, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Twickenham: The Home of England Rugby
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1445620936
• ISBN 13: 9781445620930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

• 
  Fully authorised history from the WorldRugby Museum’s Education & Interpretation Officer.
  

• Publicised in association with the RFUand marketed as an official publication with use of the English rose and salein the Rugby Store at Twickenham.

• England as the host nation of the RugbyWorld Cup 2015 qualify automatically, and fixtures are scheduled for the secondhalf of 2015.

• Publication to coincide with the AutumnInternationals 2014 and the Six Nations February 2015.

• England's Rugby Football Union has predicted the 2015 RWC will result in2.8 million total attendance (57,000 average) for the 48 matches, a projected85% increase over New Zealand 2011.

About the Author

Phil McGowan was born and raised in Rochdale and is a sporting and social historian. He graduated from University College London in 2007 and joined the Rugby Football Union later that year. He supplied the introduction to Dai Llewellyn’s A Century of Twickenham Legends in 2011 before authoring his own books. In addition he has implemented an award winning education programme and series of special exhibitions for the World Rugby Museum. He is sports history curator at the World Rugby Museum, located underneath the East Stand of Twickenham Stadium. The museum possesses the largest collection of rugby memorabilia in the world.