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Scott and Antarctica, 1911
Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, London © Sue Lowry & Magellan PR
January 1, 1970
Sport was still linked to ideas of manliness and this was epitomised by Captain Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole. Proposing a toast in 1910, Leonard Darwin, the son of Charles, said: ‘Captain Scott is going to prove once again that the manhood of the nation is not dead’.
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