Category: Physical Culture
A Neglected Austrian Lifter and Resistant: Franz Huhsar
The period following World War I, ending with the horror of World War II, was one of the most...
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Muscle Building and Society Bending:
The Slow Birth of Irish Bodybuilding
Please cite this article as: Heffernan, C. Muscle Building and Society Bending: The Slow Birth of...
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Soviet Physical Culture in Uzbekistan:
Implementation and Social Impact
This podcast, by Sevket Akyildiz was delivered as part of a collection of papers on aspects of...
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Extreme Definition Diets? Vince Gironda and the Transformation of American Bodybuilding
Published in 1973 by the American weight trainer Vince Gironda, Definition: The New Revised...
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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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