Exploring a variety of topics, the first ever lavishly illustrated history history of the Boys' Brigade.

Successful solicitor and altruist Oliver Watts Hind founded the Dakeyne Street Lads’ Club (popularly known as DAKO) in Nottingham in 1907. By combining the ethos of the Boys’ Brigade with wider educational facilities, he established a place of recreation and learning that enriched the lives of thousands of working class boys from the Sneinton area of the city over many years. This book contains the story of Oliver Watts Hind and the unique boys’ club he created.

From 1830, the British Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways. This, the fourth volume of Empire and Popular Culture, explores the representation of the Empire in popular media such as newspapers, contemporary magazines and journals and in literature such as novels, works of non-fiction, in poems and ballads.

THE LINCOLN BRIGADE The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain defend its democratic government against fascism. Ultimately, twenty-eight hundred United States volunteers reached Spain to become the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Few Lincolns had any military training. More than half were seriously wounded or died in battle. Most Lincolns were activists and idealists who had worked with and demonstrated for the homeless and unemployed during the Great Depression. They were poets and blue-collar workers, professors and students, seamen and journalists, lawyers and painters, Christians and Jews, blacks and whites. The Brigade was the first fully integrated United States army, and Oliver Law, an African American from Texas, was an early Lincoln commander. William Loren Katz and the late Marc Crawford twice traveled with the Brigade to Spain in the 1980s, interviewed surviving Lincolns on old battlefields, and obtained never-before-published documents and photographs for this book.