Strong, Beautiful and Modern: National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada, 1935-1960 by Charlotte J. MacDonald
Strong, Beautiful and Modern: National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada, 1935-1960
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Charlotte J. MacDonald
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Strong, Beautiful and Modern: National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada, 1935-1960

Charlotte J. MacDonald

240 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

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In the late 1930s and early 1940s, a wave of state-sponsored 'national fitness' programmes swept Britain and its former settler colonies. Following revelations of Nazi enthusiasm for government-backed sports and the organisation of mass leisure, t...

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