Boys will be soldiers
Brian Harrison, 20 October 1983
Sure and Stedfast: A History of the Boys’ Brigade, 1883-1984
edited by John Springhall.
Collins, 304 pp., £10, June 1983,0 00 434280 1 Show More
edited by John Springhall.
Collins, 304 pp., £10, June 1983,
“... that had scarcely yet been explored. More empirical work is needed before theory can advance, and John Springhall’s Youth, Empire and Society: British Youth Movements, 1883-1940 (1977) offered one way forward: the systematic study of organisations designed for children. This approach has the additional advantage of illuminating many other dimensions of ... ”