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This article uses cases studies of Dundee and Manchester to explain juvenile property‐offending in terms of young people's use of objects and spaces in the period 1945–60. A composite picture is assembled of objects stolen, which reflects growth of the specifically 'teenage' consumer market as well as continued significance of young people's contribution to family economies. Concerns about youth, property, and space were reported in newspapers in terms of vandalism and hooliganism. 'Play' and 'nuisance' were overlapping and contested categories; re‐education of young people in the correct use of place, space, and property was a key aim of the postwar juvenile justice system.

'Policing Youth' probes beneath the media sensationalism surrounding youth crime in order to evaluate the workings of juvenile justice and the relationship between young people and practitioners in a key era of social change (1945-70). The work of state representatives - the police, magistrates and probation officers - is mapped alongside models of discipline within families, neighbourhoods, schools and churches as well as the growing commercial sector of retail and leisure. Youth culture is considered alongside the social and moral regulation of everyday life

Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of historical pageants in Britain, ranging from their Edwardian origins to the present day. Across Britain in the twentieth century, people succumbed to 'pageant fever'. Thousands dressed up in historical costumes and performed scenes from the history of the places where they lived, and hundreds of thousands more watched them. These pageants were one of the most significant aspects of popular engagement with the past between the 1900s and the 1970s: they took place in large cities, small towns and tiny villages, and engaged a whole range of different organised groups, including Women's Institutes, political parties, schools, churches and youth organisations. Pageants were community events, bringing large numbers of people together in a shared celebration and performance of the past; they also involved many prominent novelists, professional historians and other writers, as well as featuring repeatedly in popular and highbrow literature. Although the pageant tradition has largely died out, it deserves to be acknowledged as a key aspect of community history during a period of great social and political change. Indeed, as this book shows, some traces of 'pageant fever' remain in evidence today.

Historical pageants were important sites of popular engagement with the past in twentieth-century Britain. They took place in many places and sometimes on a large scale, in settings ranging from small villages to industrial cities. They were staged by schools, churches, professional organisations, women's groups and political parties—and other organisations too—and were among the many informal educational activities that occupied British associational life in the twentieth century. This article examines the involvement of educational organisations in historical pageantry, and the sometimes uneasy relationship that pageants had with academic history. It draws on contemporary studies of heritage and performance to explore the blend of history, myth and fiction that characterised pageants, and the ways in which they both shaped and reflected the self-image of local communities. Pageants lived long in the memories of those who performed in and watched them, and were themselves often commemorated in memorials and subsequent events. They were important channels of popular education as well as entertainment and, although they are sometimes seen as backward-looking and conservative spectacles, this article argues that pageants could be an effective means of enlisting the past in the service of the present and future.

Historical pageants were important sites of popular engagement with the past in twentieth-century Britain. They took place in many places and sometimes on a large scale, in settings ranging from small villages to industrial cities. They were staged by schools, churches, professional organisations, women's groups and political parties, among others. This article draws on contemporary studies of heritage and performance to explore the blend of history, myth and fiction that characterised pageants, and the ways in which they both shaped and reflected the self-image of local communities. Pageants were important channels of popular education as well as entertainment and, although they are sometimes seen as backward-looking and conservative spectacles, this article argues that pageants could be an effective means of enlisting the past in the service of the present and future.

Historical pageants were important sites of popular engagement with the past in twentieth-century Britain. They took place in many places and sometimes on a large scale, in settings ranging from small villages to industrial cities. They were staged by schools, churches, professional organisations, women's groups and political parties, among others. This article draws on contemporary studies of heritage and performance to explore the blend of history, myth and fiction that characterised pageants, and the ways in which they both shaped and reflected the self-image of local communities. Pageants were important channels of popular education as well as entertainment and, although they are sometimes seen as backward-looking and conservative spectacles, this article argues that pageants could be an effective means of enlisting the past in the service of the present and future.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Introduction: Conceiving the Everyday in the Twentieth Century -- 1. Charting Everyday Experience -- 2. From Scullery to Conservatory: Everyday Life in the Scottish Home -- 3. Changing Intimacy: Seeking and Forming Couple Relationships -- 4. The Realities and Narratives of Paid Work: The Scottish Workplace -- 5. Being a Man: Everyday Masculinities -- 6. Spectacle, Restraint and the Sabbath Wars: The 'Everyday' Scottish Sunday -- 7. After 'The Religion of My Fathers': The Quest for Composure in the 'Post-Presbyterian' Self -- 8. Culture in the Everyday: Art and Society -- 9. Sickness and Health -- 10. Passing Time: Cultures of Death and Mourning -- Further Reading -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Interrogating Men and Masculinities in Scottish History -- PART I Models -- 1 'Be Wise in Thy Governing': Managing Emotion and Controlling Masculinity in Early Modern Scottish Poetry -- 2 Reformed Masculinity: Ministers, Fathers and Male Heads of Households, 1560-1660 -- 3 The Importance and Impossibility of Manhood: Polite and Libertine Masculinities in the Urban Eighteenth Century -- 4 The Taming of Highland Masculinity: Interpersonal Violence and Shifting Codes of Manhood, c. 1760-1840 -- PART II Representations -- 5 Making a Manly Impression: The Image of Kingship on Scottish Royal Seals of the High Middle Ages -- 6 Contrasting Kingly and Knightly Masculinities in Barbour's Bruce -- 7 Negotiating Independence: Manliness and Begging Letters in Late Eighteenthand Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland -- 8 A Wartime Family Romance: Narratives of Masculinity and Intimacy during World War Two -- PART III Lived Experiences -- 9 Social Control and Masculinity in Early Modern Scotland: Expectations and Behaviour in a Lowland Parish -- 10 A 'Polite and Commercial People'? Masculinity and Economic Violence in Scotland, 1700-60 -- 11 Music Hall, 'Mashers' and the 'Unco Guid': Competing Masculinities in Victorian Glasgow -- 12 'That Class of Men': Effeminacy, Sodomy and Failed Masculinities in Inter- and Post-War Scotland -- 13 Speaking to the 'Hard Men': Masculinities, Violence and Youth Gangs in Glasgow, c. 1965-75 -- Index