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Keeping Fit in Wartime Scotland

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Haynes R (2013) Keeping Fit in Wartime Scotland. Sport Heritage: From Sporting Past to Future Wellbeing Blog [Blog post] 05.02.2013. https://sportheritage.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/how-women-were-asked-to-keep-fit-in-wartime-scotland/

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Scotland’s sports heritage is not only located in places, but also our visual culture. Scottish Screen Archive have a variety of holdings on sport, including this gem from 1942, a promotional feature ‘4 and 20 Fit Girls’. The idea of fitness for war has a long history, but during the Second World War the role of women working in munitions factories and other forms of manual labour meant the Government wanted to maintain a fit female workforce.

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FundersAHRC Arts and Humanities Research Council
Publication date05/02/2013
Publication date online05/02/2013
Publisher URLhttps://sportheritage.wordpress.com/…artime-scotland/

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Professor Richard Haynes

Professor Richard Haynes

Professor, Communications, Media and Culture

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