ABL139: “I study the desire to look better naked”: Conor Heffernan tells us more

Conor Heffernan tells us about his work on British and Irish eighteenth and nineteenth-century physical culture, sport and the gym, which he describes as “nude hotness from the face down”.

Conor tells us about a history that saw exercise associated with masculinity, both for the elite and wealthy, looking for an antidote to modernity, and also for soldiers and the criminalised.