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In 1900, Bert Martin was tried and convicted of horse theft. Almost a year into his sentence, Bert’s cellmate hinted to prison guards that they might want to take a closer look at Bert. The prison doctor declared that Bert was biologically a woman (we might now use the term ‘intersex’).

A fanatic of health and fitness, Eugen Sandow was an early pioneer of keeping in shape, earning him the title ‘the father of modern bodybuilding’.

Edward Carpenter was acquainted with some of the most influential people of his time, including Oscar Wilde, E M Forster, Walt Whitman and Isadora Duncan. His scientific book published in 1908, The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women, bravely explored the complex nature of gender and sexuality.

A nose so Roman, it has its own empire.