Youth Movements, Citizenship and the English Countryside Creating Good Citizens, 1930-1960 /

• Main Author: Edwards, Sian (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Social history.; Youth-Social life and customs.; Social groups.; Family.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Social History.; Youth Culture.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

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 citizenshi...