Contents Foreword
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Introduction 04 By Karen Eslea
Can’t go on no more: A personal history of Margate’s youth culture
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Classroom Portraits, 2004 – 2012 – Julian Germain Thatcher’s Youth, 1979 – 1990 – Toby Mott
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By Esther Johnson
List of Works in the Exhibition
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Selected Artworks
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Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1911 – 1946
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By Jon Savage
Adolescence since 1890 in Britain and Beyond: A Timeline
By David Bainbridge
Absolute Beginners, 1959 (excerpt) 158 By Colin MacInnes
By Sacha Craddock
Teenage Wildlife Vidéothèque
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All Most Heaven – Santiago Mostyn 97 The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff, 129 1919 (excerpts) By Marie Bashkirtseff
By Nicky Stanley
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By Arthur Rimbaud
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By Oscar Wilde
Adolescence, 1904 (excerpt)
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By G Stanley Hall
(Re)inventing Adolescence By Kent Baxter
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The Gang, 1927 (excerpt) 193 By F M Thrasher Streetstyle (excerpt) 196 By Ted Polhemus The Problem of Childhood, 1974 203 By John Holt Young people and 208 territoriality in British Cities, Executive Summary Thrills and spills: Young people’s sexual behaviour and attitudes in seaside and rural areas (edited excerpt)
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890 (excerpt)
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By Keith Kintrea and others
By Anna McNay
A Season in Hell, 1873
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By Iain Aitch
In Between Expectation and Experience: Adolescence and Art
Teenagers: A Natural History (excerpt)
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Why Youth (Heart) Social 216 Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life By danah boyd