Youth Movements, Citizenship and the English Countryside - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Youth Movements, Citizenship and the English Countryside write by Sian Edwards. This book was released on 2017-11-28. Youth Movements, Citizenship and the English Countryside available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the significance and meaning of the countryside within mid-twentieth century youth movements. It examines the ways in which the Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Woodcraft Folk and Young Farmers’ Club organisations employed the countryside as a space within which ‘good citizenship’ – in leisure, work, the home and the community – could be developed. Mid-century youth movements identified the ‘problem’ of modern youth as a predominantly urban and working class issue. They held that the countryside offered an effective antidote to these problems: being a ‘good citizen’ within this context necessitated a respectful and mutually beneficial relationship with the rural sphere. Avenues to good citizenship could be found through an enthusiasm for outdoor recreation, the stewardship of the countryside and work on the land. However, models of good citizenship were intrinsically gendered.
Empire's daughters
Empire's daughters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire's daughters write by Elizabeth Dillenburg. This book was released on 2024-09-24. Empire's daughters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Empire's daughters traces the interconnected histories of girlhood, whiteness, and British colonialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the study of the Girls’ Friendly Society. The society functioned as both a youth organisation and emigration society, making it especially valuable in examining girls’ multifaceted participation with the empire. The book charts the emergence of the organisation during the late Victorian era through its height in the first decade of the twentieth century to its decline in the interwar years. Employing a multi-sited approach and using a range of sources—including correspondences, newsletters, and scrapbooks—the book uncovers the ways in which girls participated in the empire as migrants, settlers, laborers, and creators of colonial knowledge and also how they resisted these prescribed roles and challenged systems of colonial power.
London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971
London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971 write by Felix Fuhg. This book was released on 2021-05-20. London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the emergence of modern working-class youth culture through the perspective of an urban history of post-war Britain, with a particular focus on the influence of young people and their culture on Britain’s self-image as a country emerging from the constraints of its post-Victorian, imperial past. Each section of the book – Society, City, Pop, and Space – considers in detail the ways in which working-class youth culture corresponded with a fast-changing metropolitan and urban society in the years following the decline of the British Empire. Was teenage culture rooted in the urban experience and the transformation of working-class neighbourhoods? Did youth subcultures emerge simply as a reaction to Britain's changing racial demographic? To what extent did leisure venues and institutions function as laboratories for a developing British pop culture, which ultimately helped Britain re-establish its prominence on the world stage? These questions and more are answered in this book.
Let’s spend the night together
Let’s spend the night together - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Let’s spend the night together write by Subcultures Network. This book was released on 2023-11-07. Let’s spend the night together available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Let’s spend the night together explores how sex and sexuality provided essential elements of British youth culture in the 1950s through to the 1980s. It shows how the underlying sexual charge of rock ‘n’roll – and pop music more generally – was integral to the broader challenge embodied in the youth cultures that developed after World War Two. As teenage hormones rushed to move to the music and take advantage of the spaces opening up through consumption, education and employment, so the boundaries of British morality and cultural propriety were tested and often transgressed. Be it the assertive masculinity of the teds or the lustful longings of the teeny-bopper, the gender-bending of glam or the subterranean allure of an underground club/disco, the free love of the 1960s or the punk provocations in the 1970s, sex was forever to the fore and, more often than not, underpinned the moral panics that fitfully followed any cultural shift in youthful style and behaviour. Drawing from scholarship across a range of disciplines, the Subcultures Network explore how sex and sexuality were experienced, presented, conferred, responded to and understood within the context of youth culture, popular music and social change in the period between World War Two and the advent of AIDS. The essays locate sex, music and youth culture in the context of post-war Britain: with a widening and ever-more prevalent media; amidst the loosening bonds of censorship; in a society shaped by changing patterns of consumption and the emergence of the ‘teenager’; existing, as Jeff Nuttall famously argued, under the shadow of the (nuclear) bomb.
After the Shock City
After the Shock City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After the Shock City write by Tom Hulme. This book was released on 2019. After the Shock City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comparative and trans-national study of urban culture in Britain and the United States from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century
