The Scouts

by Susan Cohen

Overview

Scouts have been part of the fabric of British society since the Movement's founding by Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell in 1907, and Scout training continues to provide young people with 'instruction in good citizenship' to this day. Beginning with an outline of Baden-Powell's life and influences, Susan Cohen here tells the story of the Scout Movement and its growth from an experimental camp held on Brownsea Island, Dorset, attended by a handful of boys, into a multi-cultural, multi-national movement involving (in 2011) some 400,000 young people (including 60,000 girls) in the UK and millions of others across the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780747812593
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/20/2012
Series:	Shire Library , #690
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	56
File size:	9 MB

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'.
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, and is the author of numerous books for Shire, including The District Nurse, 1960s Britain and The Women's Institute.

Table of Contents

How It All Began 4

Brownsea Island 6

New Advances 12

The First World War 18

The 1920s 24

The 1930s 29

The Second World War 32

Into the Post-War Era 38

From 1960 44

The Twenty-First Century 50

Further Reading 54

Places to Visit 55

Index 56