About the book
The History of
Arsenal
From the workers of Dial Square to the streets around Highbury and the scale of the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal’s history is a story of repeated reinvention. This book follows the club’s development from 1886, exploring the decisions that built its reputation and the communities, players and managers that gave its name meaning.
The chapters move through Herbert Chapman’s transformation of Arsenal, the long wait and the Double, the contrasting eras of George Graham and Arsène Wenger, and the financial and sporting demands of the Emirates years. Alongside the achievements on the pitch are questions of ownership, identity and belonging. Paul A Leverell connects the celebrated moments to the planning, judgement and changing circumstances that made them possible, showing how each generation inherited a club and helped remake it.