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Sources Guide: Exercise, Fitness, and Sport (A&M)

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk

Galen: Opera varia – C2nd, C14th translation, includes work on exercise therapy MS.286

'A mon fils sur sa santé': a French manual of practical health and hygiene advice, including exercise, C18th MS.7100

Lectures on "Neuroses": c. 1780, include mention of exercise MS.MSL.21

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection: materials relating to sports, games, physical training and exercise, etc, in the military context, C19th-C20th RAMC

James Patterson: diaries, 1858-9, reflect his interests in athletics and sports MSS.7352–3

Sir James Cantlie: his papers, 1870s–1920s, reflect his concern with promoting physical fitness and exercise of various kinds MSS.1456–99, 6931–41 & 7920–41

Jonas Henrik Kellgren: Swedish medical gymnastics prescriptions, 1891–c.1910 MSS.5406–9 & 7869–72

Truls Johan Hartelius: Extracts from his 'Lärobok i sjukgymnastik', 2nd edition, 1883, In Swedish MS.2784

Wellcome Foundation: material on staff sports activities, 1880s–1990s WF

Allan Broman: material relating to his practice in medical gymnastics, 1885–1911 GC/6

Edgar Ferdinand Cyriax: writings on gymnastics (particularly Swedish remedial gymnastics) and massage, 1887–1948 MSS.2001–25, 6054–60

Godfrey William Hambleton: Three papers on Physical Development, 1889–93 MS.2726

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: material relating to remedial exercise and gymnastics, etc, 1894–1993 SA/CSP

Amalia Lundgren: Utdrag ur Nya Rörelseläran Gymnastiska Central-Institutet kursen 1895–97 MS.3348

Wellcome Archives: there is a little material in the archives of the Historical Medical Museum, 1890s–1960s, on gymnastics, exercise, etc, and among Sir Henry Wellcome’s personal papers on his own exercise and sporting activities WA/HMM,
WA/HSW

Frederick Parkes Weber: a number of his ‘bundles’ of material on lifestyle and maintenance of health include items relating to exercise, also materials on albinuria and other conditions in relation to athletic activity, dangers of over-training, etc, 1892–1955 PP/FPW

Anthelme Rochaix: ms of “L'Hygiène corporelle. L'Éducation physique”, early C20th MS.4234

Lord Moran (Charles McMoran Wilson): material relating to his interest in sports and fitness generally, with particular reference to medical students, and Rugby Football, 1900s–70s

Sir Charles Martin: notes and papers include his work on effects of exercise in hot climates and energy expenditure, c. 1910–19 GC/104

Jamieson Boyd Hurry: manuscripts, 1912–30, include material on exercise and remedial exercise therapy MSS.2968–88
& 6821–3

George Van Ness Dearborn: A syllabus of the course in physiology of exercise at the Sargent Normal School, Cambridge, [Massachusetts] , 1914 MS.6058

Anna Justina Augusta Wilson: Notes of her lectures on Pathology and Treatment of Diseases for Swedish Remedial Exercises and on Swedish remedial exercises, 1917–19 MSS.5027–8

Dr Alice Emilie Sanderson Clow: various materials relating to the benefits of exercise in menstruation and for women’s health generally, 1920s–30s SA/MWF/M

Society of Medical Officers of Health (f. 1858): file of materials on physical education, 1920s–30s; material on sports injuries and sports medicine, 1980s–90s SA/SMO

Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham: photographs and other items relating to exercise classes and sporting activities at the Centre, 1920s–50s SA/PHC

Medical Women’s Federation: Childbirth: effect of gymnastic training, 1937–53 SA/MWF/D.14

Research Board for the Correlation of Medical Science and Physical Education: records of its activities, 1943–1960, studying the inter-relationship between health and physical education and producing reports SA/RBC

Octavio Fernandez: Kinesthesia in the Treatment of Fractures; El masaje general para los Ginnastes. Atletes, Deportistas y Contendors, 1948 MS.8427

British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine (f. as British Association of Sport and Medicine, 1953, renamed 2000): records of the association, 1952–2003 SA/BSM

Cancer Research Campaign: files relating to donations from firms running football pools, 1957–72 SA/CRC/F

Sir Ludwig Guttman: material relating to the Paralympic Games, which he established, and sports for the disabled generally, 1960s–70s PP/GUT

Sidney Chave: a few items on effects of exercise in prevention of heart disease, c. 1970s–80 GC/178

ASH Action on Smoking and Health: files relating to their campaigning against sports sponsorship by tobacco companies, 1976–89 SA/ASH/K

Sir Alan Sterling Parkes: files relating to organisation of Galton Foundation conference on ‘Biosocial Aspects of Sport, 1978–80 PP/ASP/D.51–63

Child Accident Prevention Trust: includes material relating to reduction of accident risks in relation to children’s play and recreational spaces and activities, 1979-90s SA/CAP

Bristol ethnic minorities health investigation: questionnaires, 1980–5 included questions on exercise among other factors affecting health GC/210

There is a significant amount of material in the collections relating to specific sports and pastimes: search the Archives and Manuscripts catalogue under the particular term.

There is also a significant amount of published material in the Library relating to these topics: see in particular the Ephemera holdings for relevant material under the headings of Sport, Bodybuilding, Exercise and Sports Medicine.