These books are for anyone interested in the history and development of the Boys' Brigade or who have an interest in the social history at the turn of the 20th century.

They takes a nostalgic view of the "Brigades" during the early days at the end of the 19th century and show many old rare picture postcards, photographs and records the history, organisation and uniforms of The Boys' Brigade, Church Lads' Brigade, Catholic Boys' Brigade, Boys' Life Brigade and many more similar organisations.

The "Golden-Age" of the Picture Postcard corresponds almost exactly with the start of the great re-discovery and re-definition of Boyhood and Adolescence that we now take for granted. Consequently, there is a profusion of pictures of young people engaged in specifically "youth" activities and the books focus upon the "Brigade Movement" which was an important influence on many thousands of Boys.

The Boys' Brigade launched the "Brigade Movement"' in Britain, and there were a number of outwardly similar clones which grew up before the turn of the century. Activities, aims and leadership varied considerably; perhaps most markedly in their attitude to increasing militarism as the country drifted inevitably towards the Great War. Offshoots and short-lived localised variants were very common. Notably the growth of "Scouting"' as an activity found its roots in the Brigades, where it continued to grow even after "B.P.'s Scouts" founded their own Patrols after 1907.

Boys of the Brigade gives us unique photographic evidence of some of the early Brigades and their history.