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Emma Warren has been documenting grassroots culture for decades. Her most recent book, Dance Your Way Home (a Guardian book of the year) was a celebration of 80s club nights, Irish dance halls and sweaty youth centres. This September, she returns with another piece of expertly researched and lovingly told social history.

Once more taking the reader onto familiar ground, Up The Youth Club is a searching look at the rise and fall of a national treasure, highlighting both the seismic impact they've had on UK culture and why we need to ensure their existence and re-emergence for future generations. So, for anyone who ever forgot their tuck shop money or who came close in a table tennis tournament, here is Emma on a place redolent with collective memory.

‘As a critical and emotive analysis of the Youth Club’s history Warren’s book is seminal. An inspired trip down memory lane …’

Courttia Newland

'Warren shows why youth spaces matter - not just for young people, but for all of us.'

Darren McGarvey

'Community, resilience, kindness . . . A story of people at their best.'

Richard King

Pre-order your copy here:

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571389216-up-the-youth-club/?srsltid=AfmBOoqDMBjdFl4qkX2RbEZyeBIhyDD0wDjaHwCGDx5nMvFGTgDTAgIZ

Music used on this episode: Daniel Avery, Hazel and Gold

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