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Description
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.
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
Product details
| Published | 10 Aug 2012 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 56 |
| ISBN | 9780747811510 |
| Imprint | Shire Publications |
| Illustrations | 40 b/w; 30 col |
| Dimensions | 210 x 149 mm |
| Series | Shire Library |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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