As the countdown for the Rugby League Ashes series begins, the new 'Rugby Reloaded' is the first of two episodes taking a deep dive into the cultural history of the Ashes to ask what it can tell us about Anglo-Australian relations over the past century. 

There was a time that it was  seen as a contest between two 'British' nations fighting for rugby supremacy, and when the sheer ferocity of matches reflected the underlying tensions between the 'Mother Country' and the upstart Dominion.  Even in the 1950s, Australian rugby league officials were telling RFL officials that they were just a British as them! 

For more on the history of rugby and the other football codes, take a look at www.rugbyreloaded.com  and follow me on Twitter at @collinstony

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202. A Cultural History of the RL Ashes (Part 1)

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