Established in 2012, the National Museum of Roller Derby (NMRD) is the UK’s first permanent collection of ephemera and memorabilia relating to the sport of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby. In 2016, to celebrate our new permanent home in Glasgow Women’s Library’s new Bridgeton HQ, we bring you an ‘Object of the Month’ from our ever expanding collections.
We want your old team shirts, flyers, zines and other paraphernalia to illustrate the remarkable development of the sport in the UK. Keep an eye on the Facebook page for future announcements on how to donate items to the Museum.
*Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions access to the collection, and consequently digitisation of the collection, is limited. Therefore, Object of the Month will become Sticker of the Month as these objects are already digitised online*
February 2022
Glasgow Roller Derby was one of the first roller derby teams to be founded in Scotland in 2007; fourth team in the UK after London Roller Girls, London Rockin’ Rollers, and Birmingham Blitz Dames.
The team was founded as Glasgow Roller Girls (GRG) by Teri Toxic and Mistress Malicious and they hosted the first transatlantic bout with team Canada in 2008 and won the first Scottish Highland Fling tournament. They became a founding member of the UK Roller Derby Association in 2011. However, in 2012 they underwent a transformation and changed their name to Glasgow Roller Derby (GRD) in order to become more inclusive to all genders and they ditched their traditional ’boutfits’ which are more provocative in aesthetic, and introduced a new uniform to help display their professionalism in the sport.
