Downstream
white scarves flapping in the breeze. I’m told to ask ‘one of the men in bowler hats’ to let me in, which h ...
therein, any fire or flame’ and neither will he smoke. The words are a translation of a traditional Latin oa ...
justify why I need to use the Bodleian and where I’ve explained I’m writing a book about Thames swimming. ‘How ...
herself into the Isis. Why, she asks, hasn’t anyone written about this before? ‘I live in Wolvercote and ...
time”. You can’t stop children, can you? But when I think of our mothers and how they let us swim in the T ...
it’s a disappointingly small book, just 270 pages. I was expecting a huge manual. I sit down at one of ...
on bathing, plunging, diving, floating, scientific swimming, training, drowning and rescuing. Bathing has severa ...
thousands have never been thoroughly washed.’ Swimming, he explains in capital letters, is THAT SPECIAL MODE ...
and a new art. It needed to be properly defined and would- be swimmers required plenty of advice. The best ...
milk or coffee with a biscuit or a slice of stale bread before going into the water’. However, it a ...
An illustration of the ‘vertical header’, part of a pack of swimming cards produced by a Professor H. Bocock in 1888. In ...
Victorian times, swimming was a new science and a new art. Steedman devotes much of his book to the subjects of dro ...
popular with the English as it was with the Prussians and French, Steedman assures his readers that this was n ...
affliction, but generally a minor one, and as far as Steedman is concerned made into more of a drama th ...
partial to raw meat when training. It is all right to drink water, but no more than three pints a day; ...
I leave the Bodleian in search of food as I make my way to the scene of a once famous endurance swi ...
into the river; a boat full of rowers appears in the distance. It was here that Lewis Carroll set out for ...
show her doing a basic breaststroke or front crawl; but it’s unlikely the real Alice knew how to swim. ...
Professor Bocock explains how to swim fully clothed. Only ‘really advanced swimmers (could) swim in women’s garments on account ...
‘Professional Swimming Association’ (otherwise known as the National Swimming Association), Mr. T.C. Easton, att ...
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