Youth: Skinheads

Question 1

Who were Skinheads?

Answer 1

-developed from mod culture end of 60s
-tended be working class + initially influenced by Jamaican music + culture

Question 2

What were skinheads like politically?

Answer 2

-most were apolitical
-but by end 70s many increasingly linked to national front + football hooliganism

Question 3

What was football hooliganism?

Answer 3

-already growing problem beginnings of 70s
-bit gradual,y worsened

Question 4

What football hooliganism groups were there?

Answer 4

-groups continuously linked to football clubs like Chelsea Headhunters
-scenes of violence because so common that it because known as ‘the English disease’