◎ contnets 1. struggling through the past : writing youth service history / Bernard David 2. Early development of the yourh service in Wales 1830-1917 / Bert Jones 3. Street play and organised space for children and young people in London 1860-1920 / Keith Cranwell 4. F.G.D' Aeth : a forgotten man 1875-1940 / Margaret Simey 5. The girls' friendly society and the development of rural youth work 1850-1900 / Ray Fabes 6. Edwardian boys and labour in the East end of sunderland : welfare and work / Jean Spence 7. Gendering young people-work,leisure and girls' clubs : the work of the national organisation of girls' clubs and int successors 1911-1961 / Ammarie Turnbull 8. The impact of the First World War on the development of youth work : the case of the sunderland waifs rescue agency and street vendors' club / Jean Spence 9. The worst girl has at least 5 per cent good in her' : the work of the girl guides and the YMCA with 'difficult' girls during the inter-war period / Carolyn Oldfield 10. Durham house settlement : its history and place in the settlement movement / Ian McGimpsey 11. Fellowship and reconstruction : social action and unemployment in the 1930s / Crescy Camman 12. Henry Morris and the cambridgeshire village colleges / Tony Jeffs 13. Josephine Macalister brew : youth work and informal education / Mark K.Smith 14. 'Youth and community work in the 1970s' : a missed opportunity? / John Holmes 15. 'Those that I guard I do not love' : a memoir of HM inspectorate and youth work in the thatcher era / Tom Wylie