youth, leisure and identity in the inter-war years
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Tebbutt, Melanie
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 4 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrije tijd, jongens, mannen, adolescenten, lagere klasse, mannelijkheid, historisch, Verenigd Koninkrijk, interbellum
- Description
- Explores the personal and public lives of young working-class boys and men, drawing on autobiographies and personal accounts, among others the teenage diaries of the author's father, which are interwoven with a broader analysis of contemporary leisure developments in the 1920s and 1930s. Topics included are: street cultures, dancing, sexuality, mobility and the body.