Growing Up and Going out: Youth Culture, Commerce, and Leisure Space in Post-War Britain

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Sarah Kenny

Growing Up and Going out

Youth Culture, Commerce, and Leisure Space in Post-War Britain

Sarah Kenny

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Manchester University Press
01 March 2025

Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Popular culture; Age groups: adolescents; Sociology: sport & leisure

Series: Studies in Popular Culture

In the decades following the Second World War, youthful sociability was remade as young people across Britain flocked to newly-opened coffee bars, beat clubs, and discos. These spaces, increasingly unknown and unfamiliar to the adults who passed by them, played a remarkable role in reshaping town and city centres after dark as sites of leisure and recreation. Telling the history of youth in post-war Britain from the ground up, through the towns and cities that young people moved through, this book traces how the new spaces of post-war youth leisure transformed both young people's relationship with their local environment and adults' perceptions of the possibilities and dangers of modern leisure. Growing up and going out offers a timely study of youth, commerce, and leisure that explores the reimagination, remaking, and regulation of the post-war city after dark.

By: Sarah Kenny
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781526152640
ISBN 10: 1526152649
Series: Studies in Popular Culture
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 01 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sarah Kenny is Assistant Professor of Modern British Studies at the University of Birmingham.