# Event Details - **Event Name**: Making children fit and happy through physical exercise | Talk - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 10:30 am – Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 04:30 pm - **Event Description**: Discover how and why physical exercise was deemed so important for the health of children in mid-twentieth-century France.About this EventHave you ever wondered about where 'physical education' comes from, and why it became so common in schools?Find the answer at Arts and Humanities Day 2025!This family-friendly talk, with photographs and drawings, will illuminate the history of physical exercise for children in France. Drawing on her research on the 1920s and 1930s, Dr Joan Tumblety, History at the University of Southampton, will explain how and why physical movement was seen by educators, medical doctors, and the government as a way of curing the physical and psychological problems of the younger generations.What may surprise you is the extent to which those involved wanted not only to make children fit but to make them happy, too!This is an opportunity to reflect on how past generations in a different country took an interest in what today we call wellbeing and mental health.Can you recognise your own experience in this story?Talk Time: 13:30Run Time: 60 minutesSuitability: All AgesPLEASE NOTE: a few additional tickets for each workshop will be available on the day at the workshop door in Sir James Matthew Building, on a first-come-first-served basis.Accessibility: Venue is wheelchair accessible. A quiet room, with a sensory tent, will be available nearby - please ask a member of the festival team for directions. Please visit the site here for further information: Southampton Arts and Humanities Festival 2025 - Accessibility (southamptonartshumfest.co.uk)PLEASE NOTE: This ticket gives you access to the workshop only. You will need to book a FREE general admission ticket for Arts and Humanities Day to complete your registration to the festival, by filling the form here: Eventbrite https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/647b44a0-b67e-11f0-9d7c-1d24a935f522-rimg-w1200-h600-dc6e3d63-gmir.jpg This event is taking place as part of Arts and Humanities Day, the fun-filled family-friendly flagship event of Southampton Arts and Humanities Festival.Please contact the event organiser at festival@soton.ac.uk if you have any questions regarding the event you are booking.Visit the Arts and Humanities Day's official website at Southampton Arts and Humanities Festival 2025 - Whats-on (southamptonartshumfest.co.uk) to find out the full festival programme and plan your attendance.Don't forget to follow UoS Engagement and #UoSArtsHumFest on social media to stay up to date with the latest news and upcoming events. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/southampton/making-children-fit-and-happy-through-physical-exercise-|-talk/100001795624022789 - **Event Categories**: festivals, workshops, health-wellness, art, fine-arts, mental-health - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fmaking-children-fit-and-happy-through-physical-exercise-talk-tickets-1795624022789 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: SOUTHAMPTON - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: University of Southampton, Sir James Matthews Building, Level 2, Lecture Theatre 1 (2007) - **lat**: 50.908501 - **long**: -1.4051066 - **full address**: University of Southampton, Sir James Matthews Building, Level 2, Lecture Theatre 1 (2007), 157-187 Above Bar Street, University of Southampton, SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: UoS Festival (https://allevents.in/org/uos-festival/22979115) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/64ccaca9c4edf9deed856e2b4829414fddba21490c1642f1b2598d27d55cec3b-rimg-w1200-h600-dcab2e76-gmir.jpg?v=1761931524 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/3e255cb63ebfb73c32839ad2f02ac5182ea014115fe4215395f02b21268cab09-rimg-w400-h400-dcaa2e76-gmir.jpg?v=1761931524 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? 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