Stories
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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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Society, not Covid-19, makes us vulnerable
Rick Burgess coped with the death of his mother in February 2020 by immersing himself in the task of protecting his community from Covid-19 and challenging the government's failure to protect and support elderly and Disabled people during the pandemic.
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
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Male body-builders from the Physical Culture Society of Montreal.
GordonDate: 1905Reference: 540550iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
Body manikin and position of vital organs / Susanna Cocroft.
Cocroft, Susanna, 1862-1940.Date: 1905- Books
Poise and symmetry of figure / [Susanna Cocroft].
Cocroft, Susanna, 1862-1940.Date: [1906], ©1906- Books
Strange trips : science, culture, and the regulation of drugs / Lucas Richert.
Richert, Lucas, 1979-Date: [2018]- Books
Women and exercise : the body, health and consumerism / edited by Eileen Kennedy and Pirkko Markula.
Date: 2011