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What to nominate for Women's Rugby World Cup 2025

Over the next few weeks we will be archiving as much as we can about the Women's Rugby World Cup 2025 but we need your help.

18 July 2025

Blog series UK Web Archive

Author Helena Byrne, Curator of Web Archives

England are the hosts for the Women's Rugby World Cup 2025. The group stages will take place in Brighton & Hove, Exeter, Bristol, Northampton, Manchester, York and Sunderland with the final taking place at Twickenham in London. England has hosted the tournament before but this is the first time that the tournament will be at Twickenham, the home of English rugby. 

This is also the first time that the UK Web Archive has a dedicated collection for the Women's Rugby World Cup. There are many websites related to women's rugby across Britain and Northern Ireland in the Sports:Football > Rugby > Rugby Union collection. Due to the cyber-attack on the British Library in October 2023 the collection is not accessible at the moment but we are still actively archiving and preserving websites.

Over the next few weeks we will be archiving as much as we can about the Women's Rugby World Cup 2025 but we need your help.

What content should I nominate?

We archive websites:

  1. That are on a .uk or other UK geographic top-level domain such as .scot or .cymru
  2. That are published in the UK.

We do not archive:

  1. Online sound or video platforms, in which audio-visual material is the predominant content
  2. Private intranets and emails
  3. Personal data in social networking titles or websites only available to restricted groups.

You can nominate any UK published content related to the tournament whether it is a full website, a subsection of a website, individual pages or social media. This content will generally sit within one or sometimes two of the six subsections in this collection.

Collection subsections

Cultural Events: Any websites and social media accounts related to the cultural events during the tournament. This includes arts, heritage and learning events.

Fans: Websites, blogs and social media accounts written by fans of the sport.

Organisational Bodies/Venues: UK Sport, World Rugby, match stadiums and local government websites.

Press Media & Comment: News and comment, including the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 on BBC and other media websites etc..

Sponsors: UK Websites and news articles relating to some of the official sponsors of the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025.

Teams: Websites and social media accounts of players' based in the UK. This will mostly be made up of players from Britain and Northern Ireland but also a few players from the other countries that qualified for the competition and live in the UK.

Examples

For social media accounts we can only archive a selection of these using Browsertrix. This is a manual process that yields mixed results. We only archive social media accounts of public figures and not groups that require a login.

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UK Web Archive series

This blog post is part of the UK Web Archive series. The UK Web Archive was established in 2004 to collect, make accessible and preserve web resources of scholarly and cultural importance from the UK domain.  

The collection is selective, built on nominations from subject specialists and other external experts. The British Library prioritises websites that:

  • reflect the diversity of lives, interests and activities throughout the UK
  • contain research value or are of research interest
  • feature political, cultural, social and economic events of national interest
  • demonstrate innovative use of the web.
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