Ephemera relating to the 1908 London Olympic Games.

            Olympic Games

The first Games held under the auspices of the ‘International Olympic Committee’ were hosted in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens in 1896, the first in an ongoing series of Games held every four years. The 1908 Summer Olympics were originally scheduled to be held in Rome but, following the violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1906, Italian funds were diverted to reconstructing the devastated city of Naples. London was selected as an alternative venue and the Games were held in the White City stadium, beginning in April 1908. They were the first Games to include winter events such as figure skating, held a number of months after the other events. The Closing Ceremony was not performed until October 1908.

By the time of the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin, the Games had expanded dramatically to include 129 events across 25 disciplines. These Games were the first to be televised and ticket revenues totalled 7.5 million Reichsmark. Hitler used the 1936 Games to promote his ideological beliefs. There was considerable debate outside Germany over whether the competition should be discontinued and the United States of America considered boycotting the Games altogether.

Items taken from W. M. Barnard’s scrapbook of the Games. Barnard was Honorary Treasurer of the Amateur Athletics Association (AAA) from 1910 until 1932.

Reference: ATH/AAA/4/3

Taken on: September 28, 2022

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