Well my ego is well and truly fed! Haha thank you!

I just love how ingenious they had to be in their training, literally inventing certain movements on the fly. I presume you've seen the Rogue docs? If not well worth it!

Hooray! 😁 I'm far from an expert, but whenever I've read about early strongmen it's been a delight. I also have a persistent double take reaction when I see this picture of George Hackenschmidt: "Those are very modern-looking boots! No, wait..."

Wow! I mean obviously he would need a custom bike but I would so love to try this

😅not with a three year old in the next room!

Thanks Nicholas! A labour of love.... and late nights

I mean the natural follow up now is whether you've tried it? I've done some wild diets in the past thanks to early 1900s health fanatics... and somehow survived!

I mean, are you even a historian if you don't have a backlog of work?!

Haha 'intolerable academic' reviews for the win!

Ah that is so so cool and definitely on my list! I'm constantly on the lookout for conferences in Iceland for said reason haha.

Stop there is a 215kg plus stone here I once tried... after a few minutes a kind passerby suggested I should stop...

Thanks Paul! Oddly the internet turned on him soon after (no correlation) but not because of expert creep, but rather his PhD credentials. My concern would be the unquestioning race science on his philosophy blog...

Haha always Sarah! C'mere how is your book coming along? We just finished a Thousand Blows on Disney and my poor wife had to suffer through me continually looking up your website!

I have many many questions. I am hoping to go to Iceland in the next year or two and these are absolutely on my list. Husafell would likely kill me but I think I could end up somewhere on the manhood spectrum!

Well that means a huge amount. I genuinely assume no one reads my work!