Experience of Youth Bundle

This bundle includes three resources. Three people from the world of Art, Fashion and Music share their experience of youth. Age code 11- 18. Subjects covered: English, Social History, Art & Design, Citizenship, Modern History, Fashion & Textile, Photography, Creative Writing & Drama. Based on the content of each resource teachers will be encouraged to create unique learning activities and comprehension questions for classroom learning.

The Fifties Art Students of St. Martins
1950s Art Student Carole Steyn, shares her experience in going to St Martins Art School, Charing Cross 1956 -1958, and been part of the social and culture change that occurred in 1950s London. Research resource for Year 12 students and adults in learning about British popular culture. Subjects: English, Social History, Art & Design, Citizenship. 5 pages in PDF and Word document.
She talks about her Favourite dress in the cover image
“The dress reminds me of Brigitte Bardot in St Tropez, Cote d’Azur who was the first to make gingham fashionable. I used to wear this dress everywhere, and all the time, as one did at the time. My parents didn’t like the dress, as they didn’t really understand what the beginning of teen-culture was.”
Carole Steyn
Extract from the book Hanging Out by Lorna Holder

Style in my DNA –
Style in my DNA, by Lorna Holder documents 70 years of Caribbean influence on British fashion. Age code 11-18 Subjects: Modern History, Art & Design, Art, Citizenship. Classroom topics: Diversity, Identity, Community, Fashion & Textile, Photography & Dress making. Research book. It is informative and essential in representing black cultural history, fashion, and identity. It is an invaluable resource for fashion studies, black studies, Windrush archive study, research and social history of London, Birmingham, and Nottingham. The striking images in the book will help anyone seeking to understand the Caribbean migrant experience.

The book is also a memoir of Lorna Holder, a child of the Windrush generation. Lorna arrived in the UK from Jamaica in 1959 and was brought up in Nottingham. Graduating with a BA Honours in Fashion and Textiles in 1975, she was the first black graduate in fashion & textiles to pass through the then Trent Polytechnic, now Nottingham Trent University. She went on to be a very successful fashion designer, producer, writer, curator, and an active figure within London’s Caribbean Community.
208 pages

Brixton -1960s by Fred Peters
A research resource for Year 12 students. Subjects: English, History, Citizenship, Creative Writing & Drama. Three pages in PDF and Word document. Reggae musician Fred Peters shares his experience in hanging out in Brixton during the 1960s. Necessary social history research showing how family life, music, fashion, and the club scenes of the 1960s played a vital part in Black British history and identity. Transcript taken from the Hanging Out book, by Lorna Holder