Quick info:
- Type of event: online
- Date: 18 March
- Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
- Location: Zoom, link available after booking
- Meeting point: n/a
- Cost: free, donations welcome
- Booking instructions: book online. Bookings close at 2 pm on 18 March
‘Bringing together an unusual mix of themes, including theatre, sport, masculinity and civic pride, this talk uses the wrestling encounter of 1905 between McInerney and Luffman to explore two questions. First, what was the significance of wrestling to the social and cultural life of the South West in the years leading up to this bout at the Bristol Empire? And second, how was the national “wrestling craze” during the first decade of the twentieth century realised at the local level.’