Handball: The Story of Wales’ First National Sport Joan Fuster

Handball: The Story of Wales’ First National Sport Joan FusterToday there is one surviving handball court in Wales, in the village of Nelson in the Rhymney Valley. But travel back two centuries and the game was a national obsession, with people travelling from far and wide to watch thrilling matches between the sporting heroes of the day. Fortunes were won and lost through side stakes and illegal gambling, and countless bylaws were put in place to try to stop the game spreading to any likely looking blank wall.

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