Table of Contents

How it all Began / Brownsea Island / New Advances / The First World War / The 1920s / The 1930s / The Second World War / Into the Post-war Era / From 1960 / TheTwenty-first Century / Further Reading / Places to Visit / Index

Promotional Information

A history of the Boy Scout Movement in Britain, published in the centenary year of the Association's Charter.

About the Author

Susan Cohen is an historian with a wide interest in twentieth-century British social history and refugee studies. She has written and lectured widely on a variety of subjects. Her other books include Rescue the Perishing: Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees and, for Shire, 'The Womens' Institute' and 'The District Nurse'.