About
About the Chronicle
A digital museum of rugby jerseys. Every exhibit is a real object from a private collection, and every one has a story worth telling carefully.
Every jersey has a story
The Rugby Chronicle exhibits jerseys from a private collection. Each one is a real object, catalogued under a permanent collection number, such as TRC-0001, that never changes and is never reused.
An exhibit brings together what can be seen on the jersey, what it is, and the history it belongs to: the team, the season, the match it commemorates, told with the sources that support it.
How an exhibit is made
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Photographed
Each jersey is photographed front and back, with its details. The photographs are kept exactly as taken and are always shown on the exhibit.
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Identified
What can be seen is recorded first: badges, makers’ marks, lettering, numbers. What the jersey is (team, season, kit) is identified from those details and checked by the collection before it is accepted.
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Researched
The history behind a jersey comes from published sources. Each fact is listed with its source and a quoted line, checked against that page.
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Presented
A digital rendering shows the jersey as it would stand in a display case. It is always labelled as a rendering, never passed off as a photograph, and always shown beside the real photographs.
What we promise
- Unknown stays unknown
- When something cannot be told, we say so rather than guess.
- A number is not a player
- A shirt number or a printed name does not mean a player wore a jersey. We say so only when documents show it.
- Sources you can check
- History on an exhibit links to where it comes from.
- Private stays private
- Where a jersey is kept, what it cost and who it came from are never published.
Know more about a jersey?
Corrections, memories and stories about the jerseys in the collection are always welcome.