How did young Scots use their free time in 1964? Pearl Jephcott (1900-1980), a remarkable University of Glasgow researcher, tried to find some answers to this question in the mid-1960s.
Dancing class (DC127)
She interviewed 600 young people in the 15-19 age range in Armadale, Dennistoun and Drumchapel and consulted another 2400 in discussion groups and through written work. The research period was October 1963 to June 1966.
Her extremely readable conclusions are a fascinating insight into the period. Her book: Time of One’s Own, Leisure and Young People was published for the University by Oliver and Boyd in 1967.
The previously unpublished images from the archive were rediscovered earlier this year by the sociologists Dr John Goodwin and Dr Henrietta O’Connor of the Univeristy of Leicester and we have since published a selection of these fabulous drawings and photographs on our Flickr page. Please do take a look!
Armadale Town Friday Night (DC127)
We would love to hear from anyone who was involved in the study in the 1960s – maybe as interviewers or interviewees, youth leaders, health visitors, artists, photographers or colleagues of Miss Jephcott. The story has been covered in the Sunday Post and the Scotsman, who used information from our press release, and the story was also covered on Radio Scotland Newsdrive last night. We hope that this will prompt some responses. Please get in touch!
I was a teenager back in those days and went to the Ice skating at Crossmaloof twice a week and the dancing on a Saturday night.. the rest of the time was having a laugh standing at the close mouth with friends or playing Radio Luxemburg on the trannie..
Posted by Irene | January 18, 2012, 11:46 am