Spotlight: Victorian Exercise

Schedule

Wed, 25 Nov, 2026 at 12:00 pm

UTC+00:00
Location

11 Queen Street, EH2 1JQ Edinburgh, United Kingdom | Edinburgh, SC

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Our topic for this talk is Victorian exercise. Across Europe bodybuilders and showmen like Eugen Sandow toured music halls, demonstrating their great feats of strength. At the same time Victorians were taking up gymnastics and huge open air public gymnasiums were established in many cities, including Edinburgh.
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