Heroes or hooligans?: Children in English War-Scarred Landscapes 1940-1953

Bell, Amy Helen

doi:10.1353/hcy.2017.0005

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“…2 For history of childhood seeMusgrove et al 2019;Sköld and Vehkalahti 2016. For histories on childhood and war seeMcCulloch and Brewis 2016;Marten 2002;Fast 2010; Näre et al 2010; Welshman 2010;Kennedy 2014;Bell 2017.…”

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Reconstructed Landscapes of Northern Youth

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Vehkalahti²

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Reconstructing Minds and Landscapes

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Reconstructed Landscapes of Northern Youth

Jouhki¹,

Vehkalahti²

2020

Reconstructing Minds and Landscapes

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Searching for the Child in Colonial Uganda’s Educational Archives

Lefebvre

2021

Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents

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‘Doing nature’ and being a Guide: the problem of the town guide in the British Girl Guides Association, 1930–1960

Edwards

2020

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PurposeTo explore the advice given by the British Girl Guides Association, a popular girls' youth organisation, to urban members in the period from 1930 to 1960.Design/methodology/approachThis article is based on an analysis of the Girlguiding publications The Guide and The Guider in 30 years spanning 1930–1960.FindingsThe article shows that, although rural spaces maintained symbolic position in the education and training of the British Girl Guides Association throughout the mid-twentieth century, the use of urban spaces were central in ensuring that girls embodied Guiding principles on a day-to-day basis. While rural spaces, and especially the camp, have been conceptualised by scholars as ‘extraordinary’ spaces, this article argues that by encouraging girls to undertake nature study in their urban locality the organisation stressed the ordinariness of Guiding activity. In doing so, they encouraged girls to be an active presence in urban public space throughout the period, despite the fact that, as scholars have identified, the post-war period saw the increased regulation of children's presence in public spaces. Such findings suggest that the organisation allowed girls a modicum of freedom in town Guiding activities, although ultimately these were limited by expectations regarding the behaviour and conduct of members.Originality/valueThe article builds upon existing understandings of the Girl Guide organisation and mid-twentieth century youth movements. A number of scholars have recently argued for a more complex understanding of the relationship between urban and rural, outdoor and indoor spaces, within youth organisations in the 20th century. Yet the place of urban spaces in Girlguiding remains under-explored.

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Heroes or hooligans?: Children in English War-Scarred Landscapes 1940-1953

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Reconstructed Landscapes of Northern Youth

Reconstructed Landscapes of Northern Youth

Searching for the Child in Colonial Uganda’s Educational Archives

‘Doing nature’ and being a Guide: the problem of the town guide in the British Girl Guides Association, 1930–1960

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