The new volume of Palace's history, The Origin of Crystal Palace FC, Volume 6, is now available in the club shop and on Ebay.
401 pages, an inch thick, and full colour, it covers the period 1915 to 1918 and illuminates the club's exploits during the First World War.
Are your family asking you what you want for Christmas? As always, this volume is stuffed-full of fascinating historical Palace artefacts and rigorously-researched history, entirely from primary sources, including:
401 pages, an inch thick, and full colour, it covers the period 1915 to 1918 and illuminates the club's exploits during the First World War.
Are your family asking you what you want for Christmas? As always, this volume is stuffed-full of fascinating historical Palace artefacts and rigorously-researched history, entirely from primary sources, including:
- How much compensation money did Palace receive for their eviction from Crystal Palace Park?
- Who won the power-struggle for control of the new wartime London Combination league?
- How keen was the rivalry between the fans of Crystal Palace and Croydon Common?
- Why did a man plan to jump out of a balloon into the Nest?
- How did Palace cope with the catastrophic collapse in income caused by the First World War?
- Why were Palace reported in the newspapers to be top of the League when they weren’t?
- Why did the Kent League request that Palace return their trophy?
- Why did Palace repeatedly refuse to merge with Croydon Common?
- Which Palace player had a sweet-shop on Thornton Heath High Street?
- Why were Palace refused entry into the Nest?
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