David Honigmann

Thugs in drape jackets: when the Teddy Boys ruled the roost

Bleak 1950s Britain saw the birth of the first working-class youth counterculture, but the Teds were a surprisingly short-lived – if violent – phenomenon

Teddy Boys on a street in Sheffield. [Getty Images]
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    Profile Books, pp. 328, £25

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