1st Edition

The First Teenagers The Lifestyle of Young Wage-earners in Interwar Britain

By David Fowler Copyright 1995
222 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1996. The first generation of British teenagers- young people eager to spend a significant proportion of their wages on consumer goods and services such as cosmetics, clothes, magazines, records, motorcycles, cinemas and dance halls- is generally regarded as that of the 1950s and 1960s. The same group, sociologists and economic and social historians have claimed, was the first... Read more
American Historical Review-" Fowler"s book is an important study of interwar British youth"



Choice- " Highly recommended"



Albion- "Fowler"s revisionism has long been called for and historians now need to take it further

Biography

David Fowler