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Strong, Beautiful and Modern: National Fitness in Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, 1935-1960 - Charlotte Macdonald Book Sections_Contemporary Fiction villas and magnificent wooden templesIn the late 1930s and early 1940s, a wave of state sponsored 'national ftness' programmes swept Britain and its former colonies. Following revelations of the Nazi enthusiasm for government backed sports and the organisation of mass leisure, the programmes quickly foundered. They probably laid, however, the foundations for the twentieth century's obsession with ftness a key facet of modern life. In this highly original account, Charlotte Macdonald