How to prepare for the National Law Enforcement Conference.

Mode of access: Internet.

The influence of Lord Robert Baden-Powell on the development of the Boy Scout Movement with observations on its operation in Queensland 1907-1937

The purpose of the Boy Scout Movement was to create boys who were honest, obedient to constituted authority and loyal to the King and the British Empire. This thesis examines the influence that Scouting's founder, Lord Robert Baden-Powell, had on the development of Scouting in Queensland in the period 1907 to 1937, and concludes that that influence was profound. Baden-Powell conceived the Boy Scout Movement, and its non-formal educative method as an answer to some of the social, economic, and political problems at the beginning of the twentieth century – a paradigm recognised and acknowledged by educators of the day.

Being observant and observed: embodied citizenship training in the Home Guard and the Boy Scout Movement, 1907-1945

Building upon recent studies by geographers and social scientists on the everyday practices of (scientific) observation, this paper focuses on the role of two distinct, yet similar organisations that held observation as an essential and 'automatic' embodied skill. Utilising the examples of Home Guard camouflage and the Boy Scout Movement, the paper critically examines how these organisations sought to articulate the individual as both observer and observed, thereby exposing a much more complex entanglement of different visual positions and practices hitherto neglected in studies of observation. Moreover, the paper emphasises the importance of the act of 'not-being-seen' as a complementary and fundamental aspect of (non-)observational practice, accentuated and promoted by civic institutions in terms of duty and responsibility. Finally, the paper considers the evolutionary aspects of observation through the lifecourse, revealing a complex, relational geography of expertise, experience and skill that crossed age-distinctions. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.

Marjorie Merriweather Post receiving Boy Scout award

On verso: Photography by George Kalec Washington, D.C.

O infantil e a educação: uma investigação a partir de narrativa de crianças

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

The Amplifier - v. 5, no. 4

In this issue...Mineral club, Boy Scouts, Sigma Rho, Dr. S. W. Nile, Spelunking, Butte Floral, The Anaconda Company, Anderson Carlisle Society, The Lone Ranger

The Amplifier - v. 7, no. 4

In this issue...Maimstrom Air Force Base, Newman Club, Coach Ed Simonich, Harvest Ball, glaciers, New York Stock Exchange, Montana Power, Christmas, Bill Tiddy

Wolf Cub Scout book.

A revision of pt. 1 of The boy's cubbook, first published in 1930.

Insect life.

"Books about insects": p. 62-63.

Handbooks for boys.

Vols. for published as Every boy's library, Boy scout ed.

The Official handbook for boys.

Mode of access: Internet.

La popularización del fútbol en España. Análisis del fenómeno a través de la literatura especializada del fútbol (1920-1936)

La consolidación del fútbol en España se produjo a partir de los años veinte del siglo pasado. Entre 1920 a 1936 el fútbol adquirió todos los rasgos personales que hoy le caracterizan. En esta época surgió una literatura técnica y periodística especializada que se configuró como uno de los pilares más importantes para el desarrollo técnico deportivo y del espectáculo de masas. En torno a esta cuestión, el presente artículo busca un doble objetivo: recopilar la literatura técnica y periodística especializada publicada durante el período de 1920 a 1936, y reconocer el alcance social, técnico e ideológico de esta literatura futbolística en el proceso de configuración del fútbol en España. Para abordar este propósito hemos utilizado una metodología heurística y de análisis documental de las fuentes originales. Apreciamos que a través de estas obras podemos conocer mejor el contexto del espacio socio-deportivo del fútbol en España y, también, despertar nuevas líneas potenciales de investigación.

How the Pershore Plum Won the Great War

The First World War was won not just on the battlefields but on the Home Front, by the men, women and children left behind. This book explores the lives of the people of Pershore and the surrounding district in wartime, drawing on their memories, letters, postcards, photographs, leaflets and recipes to demonstrate how their hard work in cultivating and preserving fruit and vegetables helped to win the Great War. Pershore plums were used to make jam for the troops; but ensuring these and other fruits and vegetables were grown and harvested required the labour of land girls, Boy Scouts, schoolchildren, Irish labourers and Belgian refugees. When submarine warfare intensified, food shortages occurred and it became vital for Britain to grow more and eat less food. Housewives faced many challenges in feeding their families and so in 1916 the Pershore Women’s Institute was formed, providing many women with practical help and companionship during some of Britain’s darkest hours in history.

“Something radically wrong somewhere”: the kindred of the Kibbo Kift, 1920-1932

This thesis examines the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, a co-educational outdoors organisation that claimed to be a youth organisation and a cultural movement active from August 1920 to January 1932. Originally part of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, the Kibbo Kift offers rich insight into the interwar period in Britain specifically because it carried forward late Victorian and Edwardian ideology in how it envisioned Britain. Members constructed their own historical narrative, which endeavoured to place the organisation at the heart of British life. The organisation’s internal life revolved around the unique mythology members developed, and the movement aspired to regenerate Britain after the First World War physically and spiritually. This thesis argues Kibbo Kift was a distinctive movement that drew upon its members’ intellectual preoccupations and ideals and inspired its members to create unique cultural artefacts. While the Kibbo Kift was ultimately too politically ambiguous to have lasting political impact on a national scale, examining the organisation offers important insight into intellectual thought and cultural production during the British interwar period. This thesis charts the changes the organisation underwent through its membership and the different trends of intellectual thought brought in by individual members, such as its leader, John Hargrave, brought to the group. It examines the cultural production of the organisation’s unique mythology, which created a distinctive historical narrative. It surveys gender issues within the organisation through the “roof tree”, an experimental family unit, and the group’s increasing anti-feminism. Finally, it considers how Clifford H. Douglas’ economic theory of social credit caused the Kibbo Kift to transform into the Green Shirts Movement for Social Credit and later into the Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

L'escoltisme a Mallorca (1907-1995): anàlisi de l'evolució històrica.'Los boys scouts en Mallorca (1907-1995) : análisis de la evolución histórica'.

El estudio está centrado en Mallorca y abraza dos etapas del movimiento Scout. Se proponen cuatro objetivos; profundizar sobre los antecedentes y los inicios de los Boys Scouts y sobre los principales aspectos del método Scout. Descubrir el significado de la naturaleza y la adaptación que experimenta dentro del Medio Ambiente, desde la visión Scout. Realizar una análisis histórica de los Boys Scouts, incidiendo en los acontecimientos más significativos, para plasmar mejor el desarrollo que ha tenido durante las dos etapas en que se inscriben los Boys Scouts en Mallorca. Localizar, clasificar y consultar las fuentes necesarias, para descubrir las relaciones de los Boys Scouts con otros grupos e instituciones, con la iglesia y con los Boys Scouts catalanes. Y por último, revisar y relacionar las diversas posturas de los Boys Scouts, entorno a los momentos sociopolíticos más significativos que ha experimentado. Por una parte se han utilizado muestras de varios archivos institucionales, así como también otros particulares y la consulta a una serie de bibliotecas de las Islas Baleares, la muestra concluye con el complemento de varias aportaciones personales. Primeramente se ha buscado documentos, prensa y revista de la época como fuente principal así como testimonios directos para complementar la información encontrada en los documentos y revistas. La primera fase del proyecto ha consistido en un profundo estudio bibliográfico, seguido de el conocimiento de investigaciones ya hechas con la continuación de una selección de datos significativos y los que faltan. El estudio es fundamentalmente descriptivo, para la redacción del texto se utiliza el criterio cronológico. La organización mundial Scout forma parte de un movimiento educativo en el tiempo libre, extendido a 211 países y territorios y formado por 25 millones de miembros. Pretende una educación integral a través de un método para formar personas responsables. La fundación Boy Scout, no es un hecho al azar, sino que responde a una idea madurada. El movimiento Scout inicial tuvo un fuerte componente militarista. Se utiliza el Método Scout, básicamente un método de conducta que se acepta mediante una promesa y una ley. La naturaleza es el marco educativo de todo este movimiento. Este movimiento es junto a las escuelas de verano, las únicas actividades infantiles y juveniles en el tiempo libre, enmarcadas en una pedagogía activa. En Mallorca se implanta el método Scout procedente del original inglés, afrancesado y catalanizado. Impulsa la lengua catalana y la incorporación de la mujer dentro de la sociedad. Durante la época franquista era un movimiento ilegal, pero aceptado ya que estaba apoyado en la jerarquía de la Iglesia Católica. La expansión y consolidación del movimiento se da a principio de la década de los 60 y luego en las siguientes décadas fue creciendo gradualmente.