Young Outsiders: A Study of Alternative Communities

‘The Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom’: Blake’s line had become a slogan for the hippie generation. The dramatic differences between the hippies’ way of life and that of most of the rest of society at the time made them a puzzling and alarming phenomenon. Originally published in 1973, Richard Mills describes and interprets these differences in Young Outsiders.

Based on research in the Ladbroke Grove and Piccadilly areas of London, the study explores critical issues which preoccup...