youth hostels, the history, people and ideas behind them
A guide to the YHA and YMCA archives has now been published by the Cadbury Research Library. The guide outlines a brief history of both organisations along with an overview of the archives for them. You can watch a film of the launch of the new catalogue - about 13 minutes in for anyone wishing... Continue Reading →
In 2020 the Cadbury Research Library was successful in an application for funding from the Wellcome Trust to catalogue the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) and Youth Hostels Association (YHA) archive collections. After two years the project is now complete and new catalogues for both collections are now available. Both provide a fantastic body of... Continue Reading →
YHA wants to involve more people in running youth hostels. It’s an approach with potential for sustainable tourism, a way of maintaining and re-imagining hostels, based on YHA’s long history. At its start, in 1930, with people eager for hostels to open, YHA lacked the resources to build or buy its own properties, and turned... Continue Reading →
Youth hostels found new roles in the pandemic. Some housed families at risk of domestic violence. Others housed the homeless or distributed food to their communities. The period echoes the Second World War when youth hostels also turned themselves to other ways. Lands End Youth Hostel The outbreak of the Second World War caused confusion.... Continue Reading →
Guest writer, Linda Willmott, one of the owners of the youth hostel, on owning and running a youth hostel on the Pennine Way, the guests she's seen and a heavy heart. Alston Youth Hostel on the Pennine Way looking for a new owner Where is Alston? We didn’t really know other than it was nearly... Continue Reading →
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