Environmental degradation is the most serious challenge of the twenty-first century. To date, academic historians, among many others, have failed to fully confront the climate and biodiversity crises, often engaging in disavowal of the problems and our contribution to them in the course of our historical work. This article discusses mitigation efforts underway among other professional bodies, higher education institutions and academic disciplines, before addressing how we might embrace sustainability more meaningfully through our practices. We explain why a focus on decarbonisation is important, canvas the multiple ben-efits of reducing travel and consider what individuals and institutions can do to better respond to a crisis that is already with us. Our particular case study is Australia, though the implications of our findings - such as the effects of global heating and environmental destruction - are global.

Rodrigo Pérez de Arce, City of Play: An Architectural and Urban History of Recreation and Leisure. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. xviii + 275pp. 158 illustrations. Bibliography. £26.98 pbk. - Volume 47 Issue 2

The Economic History ReviewVolume 71, Issue 1 p. 343-345 BOOK REVIEW Dyan Colclough, Child labor in the British Victorian entertainment industry, 1875–1914 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xiv+227. 15 figs. ISBN 9781137503176 Hbk. £60) Simon Sleight, Simon Sleight King's College LondonSearch for more papers by this author Simon Sleight, Simon Sleight King's College LondonSearch for more papers by this author First published: 18 January 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12674Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume71, Issue1February 2018Pages 343-345 RelatedInformation

Young people do not just live in cities; they also mould them. In this chapter, it is my intention to outline the theme of historical reciprocity between youth and urban space. Following Henri Lefebvre and scholars of the 'spatial turn', space and spatial practice are commonly regarded within the academy as interdependent: spaces and spatial conventions presuppose behaviour, while the users of space shape its form and manipulate its meanings (Sleight 2013, 7). Cities and their inhabitants, it is held, are hence mutually constitutive. Yet for young city-dwellers, the urban environment has often been seen as a container, a determining feature that constrains anything much in the way of youthful agency. This assumption is questioned here with recourse to conceptual literature, scholarship on city childhoods and an excursion to Victorian-era Melbourne, a prime location for exploring the spatial cultures of youth. By way of a more playful preamble, I turn first to my choice of chapter title and to the literary conceit that informs both the epigraph beneath it and the metaphor I wish to sustain throughout what follows.

‘Children’, observed Colin Ward in his influential 1978 study, The child in the city, ‘will play anywhere and with anything’ (1978, p. 86). An apparently universal impulse, play has even been argued by some scholars to transcend history as an activity ‘older than culture’ (Huizinga, 1949, p. 1). The historian’s natural inclination is to historicise such contentions, alert to factors of geography as well as chronology and to intersections including age, gender and social class. Building on burgeoning scholarship concerning the construction and experience of children’s play worlds, this special edition of the International Journal of Play offers soundings of the field and an encouragement to venture still deeper in accounting for change through time, the very currency of historical enquiry and a potential wide-angle corrective to accounts of play concerned exclusively with contemporary themes.

This article explores the sartorial style of participants in a street-based youth subculture that thrived in late nineteenth-century Australian cities. Known as 'larrikins', the lower working-class youth so described had a distinctive style of dress including heeled boots and bell-bottomed trousers. Here we examine the material processes through which this larrikin look was produced, locating it in distinctive urban settings and placing it against a backdrop of nascent mass consumption. While also considering the cultural sources of inspiration for larrikin style, our key aim is to demonstrate the richness of an analysis attuned to materiality, preferring this to the semiotic approaches that dominate the relevant literature.

Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day's origins, development and contested meanings. It is both an historical study, tracing changes in commemoration and remembrance over time, and an investigation of the ways in which Australians and New Zealanders mark Anzac Day in the present day. It will interrogate the shaping of historical sensibility by exploring the complex connections between personal and collective remembrance. One of the challenges to understanding Anzac Day is dealing with the multiplicity of meanings of such a large-scale, diverse and now venerable (in modern Australian terms) observation. It will also examine the neglected subject of Anzac Day's observance outside the Australia and New Zealand - in Europe, Asia, North Africa and the Pacific - where it has long played a role in expressing the identities of Antipodean expatriate communities.

(2011). Juke Box Britain: Americanisation and Youth Culture, 1945–60. By Adrian Horn. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 125-126.