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Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: K. Boyd
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-11-04 - Publisher: Springer

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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
Revaluing British Boys' Story Papers, 1918-1939
Language: en
Pages: 205
Authors: H. A Fairlie
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-09 - Publisher: Springer

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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
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Authors: Melanie Tebbutt
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-03 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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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
Juvenile Nation
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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
Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Linsey Robb
Categories: History
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This edited collection brings together cutting-edge research on British masculinities and male culture, considering the myriad ways British men experienced, und