Text of a talk given to Birkbeck College Department of Literature June 2016
Introduction: the youth question then and now
In this talk I am going to be taking a line of thought for a walk in two directions at once. I will stepping back from the present, to retrace an argument about the youth question which I first articulated in the late 1960’s and 70’s at a time when Mods,Rockers and Skinheads, Beats and Hippies were highly visible signs of a deeper shift in the tectonic plates of the British class system.… Read the rest