In this pioneering work about the precursor to the comic book, Kelly Boyd traces the evolution of the boys' story paper and its impact on the imaginative world
This book explores the phenomenon of the story paper, the meanings and values children took from their reading, and the responses of adults to their reading cho
This original and fresh approach to the emotions of adolescence focuses on the leisure lives of working-class boys and young men in the inter-war years. Being B
In the first five months of the Great War, one million men volunteered to fight. Yet by the end of 1915, the British government realized that conscription would
This edited collection brings together cutting-edge research on British masculinities and male culture, considering the myriad ways British men experienced, und