6 July 1935 In 1809 a Mr. Crunden, of Brighton, then the favourite resort of elegant depravity, asserted the rights of the natural man and pranced naked down the beach and into the water. He was arrested and fought a case against the Crown. He lost his legal suit and was forced into a bathing one.
13 August 1948 The Manchester Guardian ponders if nudism could put an end to war because if armies shed uniforms it would be impossible to distinguish between them.
6 August 1961 Starkers in Sunbury - ‘camping in the nude is a different holiday altogether.’
2 April 1980 Naked as nature – if not weather – intended: Brighton becomes the first major British resort to open a naturist beach on its seafront.
12 June 1999 Dark side of fresh air Utopians - the strange history of H&E magazine
6 August 2013 From Exmoor to the Yorkshire Dales and the Scottish borders, naked ramblers are being spotted up and down the country. What’s going on? Have clothes become passé in the walking world? In order to explore this new craze for ‘boots-only hiking’, Stephen Moss dropped everything and struck out into Epping Forest.
27 September 2007 Strippers with altitude: Nepal wants to ban nudity on Everest. The irony is that this is where trouserless-peaking started with George Mallory, claims regular naked climber Hank Wangford.
23 March 2012 The Naked Rambler: the man prepared to go to prison for nudity. Six years ago, Stephen Gough’s hike from Land’s End to John O’Groats brought him media fame – and a prison sentence. Then another, and another, and… why has he been locked up ever since?
8 April 2015 Monica Tan says she was baffled when her friends called her ‘brave’ for going on a naked art gallery tour. To remove one’s clothing is a physical form of liberation, she says.
27 January 2017 Is Britain ready for every day nudity? There’s naked yoga, naked dating, naked dining. But is it OK to take your clothes off in public? There’s only one way to find out...
31 August 2017: Paris opens first nudist park but officials vow that no exhibitionism will be tolerated at a section of Bois de Vincennes that is being reserved for naked people.
