In September 1965 the Leverhulme Trust Fund made a grant to the Physical Education
Department of Manchester University so that a study could be conducted in the south-east …

First published in 1983. In the 1980s, as they are today, young people were remaining longer
in education, and were leaving better qualified, if only to face unemployment rather than …

Any attempt to understand the nature of leisure must explore how it meshes with other aspects
of people's lives. Early research on leisure tended to be large-scale and activity rather …

… Two of them are essentially studies in the sociology of leisure (Youth and Leisure in an
urban sprawl by Isabel Emmett and Young people and leisure by John Leigh). Both of these …

The ways in which Britons spend their free time have remained relatively stable since the
1950s. This is compared with the concurrent scale of economic restructuring (de-…

The changing social conditions of the 1950s — economic growth, rise in real wages, expansion
of the consumer market, the beginning of ‘affluence’ — led to a growing governmental …

Historically the British have believed in the character-building values for young people of the
‘playing fields of Eton’, and the last forty years or so have seen the appearance of a number …

Women experience inequalities in gaining access to leisure ‘space’ and activities. Based on
research in Milton Keynes, UK, this paper points towards a more satisfactory theory of …

The ways in which Britons spend their free time have remained relatively stable since the
1950s. Since the 1960s leisure time has grown at around a minute per year per working age …

Engström, L.‐M. (Department of Educational Research, Stockholm Institute of Education,
Stockholm, Sweden). Physical activity of children and youth. Acta Paediatr Scand, Suppl. 283: …