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Category: Physical Culture
Sig Klein and the Art of Gym Management
Operating in the first half of the twentieth-century in his plush New York Gymnasium, Sig Klein...
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1979 and The Birth of the British Strongman
In late 2016, Eddie Hall, a British strongman from Stoke-on-Trent forced his way into the...
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Memory and Feats of Strength in Rural Ireland
From the 1930s to early 1970s, schoolchildren in Ireland were sent towards grandparents, village...
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Training for Sport is Training for War? The GAA, Sokol Physical Culture and Ireland’s Military
Outtake from a Sokol Display by the Irish Military in 1937. Courtesy of British Pathé The Gaelic...
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From Bloom to Battle: Tracing Ireland’s Early Physical Culture Movement
Presented at the SpLeisH International Colloquium – 3-4 March 2017 By Conor Heffernan In 1898 one...
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Like a Rolling Stone: Strong Lifting in Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth Century Ireland
An old man wanders through the outskirts of his town. Pains creep up and down his body as he...
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All a Load of Pants? Posing Trunks in Male Bodybuilding Part One
At first glance posing trunks seem an odd subject for historical enquiry. Bodybuilding as a sport...
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All a Load of Pants? Posing Trunks in Male Bodybuilding Part Two
Having discussed the precursors to bodybuilding trunks in part one of this series, this post will...
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From Bloom to Battle: Tracing Ireland’s Early Physical Culture Movement
On May 6th 1898, Eugen Sandow, the man whom many credit as the father of the Physical Culture...
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Weight training in English Football: An Early Experiment
In May 2016, the BBC featured a story on the science behind Leicester City’s historic premier...
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How Britain Became the Birthplace of Modern Bodybuilding
Although bodybuilding has become something of an outlier sport in today’s popular culture, there...
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