Growing Up and Going outSarah KennyLabel: Manchester University PressDescription: 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.
