Making Ends Meet

Melanie Tebbutt is Professor Emerita of History at Manchester Metropolitan University UK. She has published widely across themes in British social and cultural history, including leisure and gender, regional landscapes, personal advice columns, family memories, gossip in organisational culture, and gossip in working-class neighourhoods, Women's Talk? A Social History of 'Gossip' in Working Class Neighbourhoods, 1880-1960 (Scolar Press; Ashgate, 1995). Over the past decade her research has focused on the history of childhood and youth, with publications about BBC radio programmes for adolescents before and during the Second World War, the psychological and emotional costs of the prewar borstal system in Britain, the emotional impact of movies on boys and young men in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s, and young people's relationship with cinema culture. Her books include Being Boys: Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War Years (Manchester University Press, 2012), Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain (Palgrave, 2016), and People, Places and Identities: Themes in British Social and Cultural History, 1700s-1980s (co-edited with Alan Kidd, Manchester University Press, 2017).