A history of Reebok, from J.W. Foster's 1895 Bolton spiked running shoes through the 1958 founding of Reebok itself, the Freestyle and Pump era that pulled it away from running, and the 2021 sale to Authentic Brands Group that has left its current running range unusually small.

A history of Norman Walsh Footwear, the Bolton shoemaker who trained at Reebok's predecessor firm, made spikes for Roger Bannister's four-minute mile, and went on to invent the fell-running shoe, a single design the small, still hand-lasting company has built its entire range around ever since. Includes its 2026 collaboration...

A history of Brooks Running, from its 1914 founding as a ballet-slipper maker through the 1975 Villanova, the shoe that introduced EVA foam to running, and the 1976/77 Vantage, which established the modern stability shoe, up to the brand's 2001 refocus on running and its current DNA foam lineup.