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Wimbledon Championships

From Jeu de Paume to Strawberries and Cream: A Brief History of Tennis and the Wimbledon Championships

May 25, 2021July 5, 2019 by Gale Review Team
"Hygienic Excess." Punch, 18 Oct. 1879, p. 174. Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992

│By Carolyn Beckford, Gale Product Trainer in the UK and Europe│

As we come to the end of the first week of Wimbledon, with the annual buzz and excitement very much in full-flow, we decided to use Gale Primary Sources to look back at the evolving history of tennis and the Wimbledon Championships.

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Categories Gale Publishers Tags American Amateur Newspapers, changing fashions at Wimbledon, Crime, dress code at Wimbledon, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, female tennis player, Gale Primary Sources, Gale Product Trainer, grand slam, Histoire de la Nouvelle France, Jeu de Paume, Lawn Tennis, Louis X, Maud Watson, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Palace of Versailles, Punch Historic Archive, Punishment and Popular Culture, reporting tennis, Spencer Gore, Sport History, tennis tournament, The All England Lawn Tennis Club, the history of tennis, the history of Wimbledon, The International Herald Tribune, The Making of the Modern World, Wimbledon, Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon traditions, women at Wimbledon

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