04330nam a22005895i 4500 978-3-031-77266-5 DE-He213 20251030114938.0 cr nn 008mamaa 250204s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031772665 978-3-031-77266-5 10.1007/978-3-031-77266-5 doi DA1-995 HBJD1 bicssc HIS015000 bisacsh NHD 1DD thema Wright, Susannah. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 90665 Youth and Peace in England, 1919-1969 [electronic resource] / by Susannah Wright. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XVII, 226 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood, 2634-6540 1. Introduction -- 2. Between War and Peace, 1919–1939 -- 3. Pacifist Youth, 1934–1945 -- 4. Young World Citizens, 1945–1969 -- 5. Anti-Nuclear Youth, 1957–1970 -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix. Part I: Peace Movement Organisations -- Part 2: Oral History Interviews. “This book is an impressive achievement. Susannah Wright examines young people's involvement in pacifist and internationalist campaigns in the mid-twentieth century, and what this involvement meant to the many who took part. These young people shaped and were shaped by the peace movement. Wright’s bottom-up and multi-generational approach – together with her wide range of source material – makes for a profound and often delightful account of a key area of political and cultural engagement among British youth.” -Mark Freeman, University College London, UK This book offers an historical analysis of an area of young people's activity which remains significant in the present. It shows that many thousands of young people in England were involved in peace movement activity from 1919 to 1969, in connection with the League of Nations Union before the Second World War, pacifist bodies like the Peace Pledge Union in the 1930s and 1940s, the Council for Education for World Citizenship post-1945, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from 1957. Young people engaged with the peace movement at school, at home and in the community, encompassing classroom learning, attending lectures and meetings out of school hours, pageants, international camps and visits, correspondence, and sometimes demonstrations, marches and other direct action protests. Some were engaged briefly, for others this became a long-term focus of time, energy, and ideological commitment. Some followed parents, teachers, and friends. Others rebelled against those around them. Examining the perspectives of those involved as young people, and the adults aiming to involve young people in the peace movement, this book is an important addition to our knowledge about movements and activism (in the peace movement and more broadly), and to our knowledge about young people's agency and its limits. Susannah Wright is Reader in Education at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Great Britain History. 66701 Peace. 60021 Social history. Education History. 59175 Youth Social life and customs. 66571 History of Britain and Ireland. 66703 Peace and Conflict Studies. 68596 Social History. History of Education. 59037 Youth Culture. 66573 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031772658 Printed edition: 9783031772672 Printed edition: 9783031772689 Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood, 2634-6540 82249 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-77266-5 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 66632 66632