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19 January, 2018Mysteries of the Game - Part 2
Herbert Scheele, Editor of World Badminton, takes a look at the tournament name "All England" and explains why the world's oldest and most significant event is named as such.
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19 January, 2018Mysteries of the Game - Part 1
World Badminton Editor, Herbert A.E. Scheele looks at some mysteries of Badminton, the first is the game's widely-used term, "Love-All".
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05 December, 2017Why the Name of the Game is Badminton
Richard Eaton examines the origins of the game, in particular the significance of Badminton House in England, that of the Badminton Net and of where and when it first appeared.
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24 November, 2016The Man Who Invented Badminton
Something about John L. Baldwin who changed Battledore and Shuttlecock into Badminton.
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30 September, 2016The Battledore Transformed
In this article sub-titled "A History of Early Badminton", Richard Eaton makes a thorough examination of the origins of the game of Badminton.
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10 August, 2016A Badminton Centenary
This year, 1977, a Badminton centenary is celebrated for it was some time a hundred years ago in 1877 that the first Laws of the game were actually compiled and put into print.
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09 August, 2016The Enduring Mystery of Badminton’s Origins
It is generally accepted that the early forms of Badminton were played in an aristocrat’s mansion in Gloucestershire, England. But whether or not that is really where this game first emerged worldwide is another story. Richard Eaton provides some very interesting facts in the discussion that follows.
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09 August, 2016Badminton – a Kaleidoscope of Antiquity
Richard Eaton takes us back through the years as he examines the game of Badminton's history as well as its development then on. He takes a look at intriguing forms of the game that appeared throughout the world - as far back as ancient Greece as well as through Asian nations like China, India, Vietnam, Taiwan and Korea.
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08 June, 2016A Link with History
Here is another historical painting, a picture of which was published in the IBF Handbook for the year 1970. This painting which is dated 1813 and can be found in the museum at Eidsvold in Norway, continues to interest badminton fans the world over.
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17 May, 2016The Wood Shot Law’s Roller-Coaster Ride
This article reveals how the The Wood Shot Law eventually came into being, something that bugged the administrators of the game through the thirties till the early 1960s.