- 1983 edition, 297 pages
- Published by Collins
- Hardcover with dust jacket, blue boards
- Very good condtion, minor fading, small owner stamp on free front end paper
Black and White Photos. Index included. This history of the first hundred years of The Boys' Brigade has been published to coincide with the Centenary of the movement. In 1883, William Alexander Smith, a Sunday School teacher and officer in the Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, gathered together some working-class boys in Glasgow to form the first company of The Boys' Brigade. Few outside the movement are aware that the Brigade was founded almost a quarter of a century before Baden-Powell - with Smith's encouragement - started Boy Scouts.
Dr John Springhall, a professional historian with no B.B. connections is the principal author and coordinating editor.
The role of The Boys' Brigade as the world's first successful voluntary uniformed youth organisation has been given far less attention than it merits by historians. This book also examines the history of the organization within a broader social and hitorical context, particular attention being paid to the Brigade's role in the changing relationship between religion and society, and in the development of the concents of 'adolescence' and 'youth.'
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