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Editors' Introduction / Robert Snape, Helen Pussard, Matthew Constantine -- Hidden History - Holidays at Home during the Second World War: A Case Study of Blackburn and District / Judith Moss -- A 20th Century 'Vernacular Landscape': The Significance of Allotments as a Leisure Experience / David Kitchener -- What a Performance: Teenage Working-Class Girls' Leisure in the Interwar Years / Katherine Milcoy -- Scrapbooks, Albums and Notebooks: An Act of Leisure, A Document of Leisure, a Labour of Leisure / Carson and Miller -- 'Museums of Sound': Collecting and Curating Everyday Popular Music Experiences / Marion Leonard and Robert Knifton -- Representation and Absence: Memories of Play and Leisure / Theresa Wilkie -- The Archer Street Boys: An Examination of Class, Ethnicity and Social Capital amongst Musicians, and their Contribution to the Economy of the London Jazz and Dance Band Scene in the Inter War Period / Ged Seacombe -- Rational Recreation and Leisure for Children: the Band of Hope in the Twentieth Century / Annemarie McAllister -- Vision versus Tradition in an Imaginary Community: Rugby League, Super Leagues and the Fans' Identification with "the Game" in the North of England 1993-1996 / Karl Spracklen -- Homemade Gadgets and Makeshift Darkrooms: Skilled Amateur Photography in 1930s Britain / Juliet Baillie

Since the early 19th century, instrumental voluntary intervention in leisure has been a prominent aspect of social reform. Despite this, leisure remains relatively neglected in the historiography of voluntary action. This article reviews the changing social meanings of leisure and voluntary action between 1830 and 1939 and argues that leisure has been crucial to the development of the voluntary movement. While much intervention was repressive, leisure was also understood as a social good that could be promoted through voluntary action. After the First World War, leisure was seen by the National Council of Social Service to be a prerequisite of a progressive society. It is argued that the historical relationships between voluntary action and leisure have the capacity to inform current policy in terms of state–voluntary partnership and ideas of the common good.