‘Temples Devoted to Cold Coffee and Hot Sex’: Coffee Bars and Youth Culture in Postwar Britain

This article explores contemporary and scholarly perspectives on coffee bars in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, with a particular focus on themes in the modern history of youth. In the immediate postwar decades, young people in Britain were described as simultaneously angry and apathetic, active tro...

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Main Author: Ellis, Catherine (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2024
In: History compass
Year: 2024, Volume: 22, Issue: 10/11, Pages: 1-8
Further subjects:B coffee bar
B ‘moral panic’
B London
B affluence
B Youth
B Teenagers
B Coffee
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