Category: From the Archives

NMRD Object of the Month: Roller Skating NHS Nurse’s uniform

The National Museum of Roller Derby is the UK’s first permanent collection of ephemera and memorabilia relating to the sport of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby. August’s NMRD Object of the month is a Roller Skating NHS Nurse’s uniform worn at the 2012 London Olympic Opening Ceremony by a London Rockin’ Roller skater.

NMRD Object of the Month: Shoetown Slayers & Vendetta Vixens Roller Derby team shirts

National Museum of Roller Derby is the UK’s first permanent collection of ephemera and memorabilia relating to the sport of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby. July’s NMRD Object of the month is a pair of team shirts from the Shoetown Slayers & Vendetta Vixens.

NMRD Object of the Month: Sheffield Steel Rollergirls calendar and flyers

National Museum of Roller Derby is the UK’s first permanent collection of ephemera and memorabilia relating to the sport of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby. June’s NMRD Object of the month is a calendar and flyers from the Sheffield Steel Rollergirls, 2012.

NMRD Object of the Month: Double Header Bout Programme

National Museum of Roller Derby is the UK’s first permanent collection of ephemera and memorabilia relating to the sport of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby. May’s NMRD Object of the month is the Double Header bout programme from September 2012.

NMRD Object of the Month: Anarchy in the UK

National Museum of Roller Derby is the UK’s first permanent collection of ephemera and memorabilia relating to the sport of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby. April’s NMRD Object of the month is the programme from the April 2011 Anarchy in the UK roller derby tournament.

NMRD Object of the Month: Turn Left

National Museum of Roller Derby is the UK’s first permanent collection of ephemera and memorabilia relating to the sport of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby. March’s NMRD Object of the month is the first issue of Turn Left, the unofficial Brighton Rockers fanzine, from March 2013.

NMRD Object of the Month: Jailhouse Block poster

National Museum of Roller Derby is the UK’s first permanent collection of ephemera and memorabilia relating to the sport of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby. February’s NMRD Object of the month is a poster for a roller derby bout between Leeds Roller Dolls vs Auld Reekie Roller Girls in 2010.

NMRD Object of the Month

National Museum of Roller Derby 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 GWL’s new Bridgeton HQ, we bring you an ‘Object of the Month’ from our collection.

New Zines by Sophie Cunningham

We’re very pleased to have recently had two new zines donated by artist Sophie Cunningham, Pocket Guide to Bitches and Pin Up. Sophie is a recent graduate from the Glasgow School of Art who is currently based between Glasgow and London. Her work explores the growing concerns about her generation and questions the role women play in today’s westernised society.