Our Classic text slot has been a popular feature of the magazine for the past two years, but the time has now come to lay it to rest. There are only so many texts that can legitimately justify the epithet "classic" and there are only a limited number of people who are knowledgeable enough about the texts to review them adequately.
The series kicked off with a review of Peter Willmott's Adolescent Boys of East London and over the next near-100 issues profiled such perennial tomes as Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys, My Club and I by Lily Montagu, Pearl Jephcott's Girls Growing Up, Youth Work by Smith and Jeffs, Mungham and Pearson's Working Class Youth Culture ... even taking in Plato's The Republic along the way.
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