The event is a blend of plenary presentations and a choice from lots of seminars. These ranged from the story of the founder of the Church Lads Brigade to the decline and fall of Westhill College; from girls' work in Northern Ireland to the role of the Boys Brigade recreation hut in Rouen in World War One.
There was a particularly good plenary, with real artefacts, on Scouting for Boys which was written 100 years ago this year. Several papers tend towards the philosophical - bureaucracy and detached work; emerging discourses of expertise in English youth work from 1939 to 1951. Some of the presentations and discussions were close to contemporary history, even politics: I gave a paper myself on The History of The National Youth Agency (copies available on request from denisec@nya.org.uk).
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