Product Description: Continuing interest in life on the Home Front during the Second World War means that the style of the 1940s has never been more popular. People are recreating the look for plays and films, reenactments, 1940s themed events, or just because they enjoy dressing in vintage fashions...read more

Product Description: The 1960s, known as the ‘Swinging Sixties’ are recognized as a landmark decade both by those who lived through them and those who look back in awe at the revolutionary changes in fashion, style and sexual freedom. Continuing interest and appreciation of vintage fashion mean that 1960s styles, hair and make-up have seen a huge increase in popularity and the need for detailed information on this period has never been so great...read more

Examines twentieth-century fashion trends in hairstyles, hats, and other accessories as they varied through the decades from opulent and ornate to comfortable and practical. (view table of contents)

Adventurous Learning interrogates the word ‘adventure’ and explores how elements of authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery can be incorporated into educational practices. It outlines key elements for a pedagogy of adventurous learning and provides guidelines grounded in accessible theory. Teachers of all kinds can adapt these guidelines for indoor and outdoor teaching in their own culturally specific, place-responsive contexts, without any requirement to learn a new program or buy an educational gimmick. As forces of standardization and regulation continue to pervade educational systems across the globe, both teaching and learning have been starved of creativity, choice and ‘real world’ relevance. Many teachers are keen to improve their practice yet feel constrained by the institutional structures within which they work. By carefully examining adventure and its role in education, teachers can become better able to design and deliver engaging programmes that are underpinned by sound pedagogical principles, and which have deep and enduring meaning for their students.

Examines twentieth-century children's fashion trends, describing how hairstyles, uniforms, and clothing for formal and informal wear changed through the decades and were influenced by actors, adult styles, and world events. (view table of contents)

Product Description: When World War II broke out in September 1939, it came as no surprise to the children of Germany: the Nazis had been preparing them for a war ever since they had come to power in 1933. To British children, however, it was an altogether different matter...read more

Drawing upon personal recollections, contemporary Mass Observation reports, newspaper articles and advertisements, personal and archive photographs, Mike Brown and Carol Harris look at each wartime Christmas on the British Home Front, from 1939 to 1944.

Mike Brown examines the milestone events that led to the nation's progressive change of heart from paranoia and defeatism in the early years of World War II, to the growing confidence that followed El Alamein in 1942.

Product Description: Book by Mike Brown

Product Description: The author uses factual narrative combined with contemporary eyewitness accounts and oral history extracts to produce an insight into the phenomenon of evacuation in Britain during World War II. He explores its roots in the pre-war period and the planning in the wake of the Munich Crisis, and also the different kinds of evacuation - official, private, overseas, business and government...read more

Mike Brown combines factual narrative with contemporary eyewitness accounts and oral history extracts to look at the evacuation in Britain during World War II. Illustrated with a variety of contemporary photographs and ephemera, this is a glimpse of how children and adults coped with the trials and tribulations of evacuation.

Product Description: Book by Brown, Mike