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Issue number 96 Autumn 2026
On the front cover: Dave Valentine – the World Cup captain leading Huddersfield.
Features include:
Swinton’s title sprint – how the Lions rose from the big freeze to become Champions.
Brian Jefferson - great memories talking to Keighley’s number one.
How Halifax were just 160 minutes away from winning All Four Cups in 1956.
Irish players in Rugby League – the impact made by men from across the Irish sea.
Instant wing stars – players who came from Rugby Union to top the try-scoring charts.
Rugby League’s highest ground – hitting the peaks at Thrum Hall, Halifax.
Salford’s number nines – the swashbuckling Red Devils’ search for a hooker.
Current events in Rugby League – what would great figures of the past make of it all?.
Catching up after the big freeze – how the game got going again in March 1963.
England’s very first international team to play against another country – history re-lived.
Autographs of Wigan team in the 1930s showed the massive Welsh influence.
Forgotten tour games – Australia in Italy and the 1971 Kiwis in London.
The many lives of Jean-Jacques Naudo – sensational story of a former French player..
Manchester was the scene of Wigan’s greatest triumph – 1950 revisited.
Hull’s might Ambassadors club – a giant force in the Amateur games.
Wakefield Trinity versus Leeds in 1968 – great photo memories frozen in time.
Remembering the formation of a Professional Players’ Association in the early 1980s.
Jeff Heaton – an unsung hero for St.Helens and Liverpool City.
Ray Owen – a great scrum-half who starred for Widnes and Wakefield Trinity.
Harry Maddison – the little general who always stepped up for Whitehaven.
Castleford’s 100 year anniversary – featuring Alan Hardisty and John Sheridan.
Terry Flanagan leads new hopes for an Oldham revival.
Dick Gemmell, Hull and Great Britain centre, who crossed the divides in Rugby League.
25 great Cumbrians – make a note of some of the game’s finest players.
Memories of Batley on top at a packed Mount Pleasant in 1969.
Syd Scoop hails the ‘Kings of the North’ as Super League comes to Dewsbury.
Fantastic photo remembering when the Nou Camp in Barcelona hosted Rugby League.
‘A’ team successes for Barrow and Widnes.
Tribute to Irvin Saxton, founder of the Rugby League Record Keepers’ Club.
Brand news books, including ‘The Indomitables’, York, St.Helens and Warrington.
Team photos: Huyton (1972-73); Leeds (mid 1970s); Featherstone Rovers (1958-59); Doncaster (1953-54); Halifax (1955-56); England (1908); Australia (1960); New Zealand (1971).
Obituaries and tributes to: Geoff Oakes, Bill Pattinson, John Kear, Bernard Coyle, Malcolm ‘Midge’ Cummings, Chris Squires, Colin Standing, Bill Ennis, Joe Matthews, Frank Barrow, Colin Cooper, Paul Jackson, Gerry Mann, Derek Tudball, Philip Charlton, Dick McConnel (Varsity match pioneer), and more.
PLUS MUCH, MUCH MORE.
