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Yoga gets physical

Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.

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Caring for our Disabled daughter in lockdown

Jane Holmes talks about the challenges of caring for her Disabled daughter while working and trying to stay safe during the pandemic.

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Belonging and why we long for it

Tanya Perdikou’s upbringing emphasised conventional respectability, but other influential family members embraced the bohemian life. Caught between two sets of values, she questions where, if anywhere, she fits in.

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Sex work and critical campaigners

When campaigners filmed secretly in the club where she worked, exotic dancer Ella Smith felt frightened and degraded. Here she speaks out about the attack on her livelihood.

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  • Types os superb physical manhood who have been developed to this high degree of physical fitness and resistant power to disease by the very methods I am advocating in this book, and have been advocating consistently all over the world for the past quarter of a century. This is the type of youthfull manhood that we could and should have had if my advice had been taken and followed, as recruits, instead of such weedy specimens of humanity as shown in the previous picture.
  • Body stretching / [British American Tobacco].
  • People exercising: keep fit campaign to mark World Health Day in Tanzania 2002. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health, 2002.
  • Physical exercises for men and women. Colour lithograph, 1972.
  • In work or play fitness wins : use your swimming baths, playing fields and recreation grounds / National Fitness Council.
  • Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on
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  • Strength, and how to obtain it / by Eugen Sandow ; with anatomical chart, illustrating the exercises for physical development ; illustrated with several full page portraits of the author.
  • Andrews theme song / sung by Albert Whelan.
  • Fitness : Tuesday ... Thursday / Fougasse.
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