To explore the advice given by the British Girl Guides Association, a popular girls' youth organisation, to urban members in the period from 1930 to 1960.,This article is based on an analysis of the Girlguiding publications The Guide and The Guider in 30 years spanning 1930–1960.,The article shows that, although rural spaces maintained symbolic position in the education and training of the British Girl Guides Association throughout the mid-twentieth century, the use of urban spaces were central in ensuring that girls embodied Guiding principles on a day-to-day basis. While rural spaces, and especially the camp, have been conceptualised by scholars as ‘extraordinary’ spaces, this article argues that by encouraging girls to undertake nature study in their urban locality the organisation stressed the ordinariness of Guiding activity. In doing so, they encouraged girls to be an active presence in urban public space throughout the period, despite the fact that, as scholars have identified, the post-war period saw the increased regulation of children's presence in public spaces. Such findings suggest that the organisation allowed girls a modicum of freedom in town Guiding activities, although ultimately these were limited by expectations regarding the behaviour and conduct of members.,The article builds upon existing understandings of the Girl Guide organisation and mid-twentieth century youth movements. A number of scholars have recently argued for a more complex understanding of the relationship between urban and rural, outdoor and indoor spaces, within youth organisations in the 20th century. Yet the place of urban spaces in Girlguiding remains under-explored.

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“做自然”并成为向导：1930–1960年英国女向导协会的城镇向导问题

为了探讨1930年至1960年间流行的年轻女孩组织英国女孩指南协会对城市成员的建议。本文基于对30年女孩指南出版物The Guide and The Guider的分析得出。这篇文章显示了1930年至1960年。尽管农村空间在整个20世纪中叶一直在英国女童军协会的教育和培训中保持象征性地位，但城市空间的使用对于确保女童在以下方面体现了指导原则至关重要。每天 尽管学者们将乡村空间，尤其是营地概念化为“非凡”空间，但本文认为，通过鼓励女孩在城市地区进行自然研究，该组织强调了指导活动的一般性。在这样做，他们鼓励女孩在整个时期积极参与城市公共空间，尽管事实上，正如学者们所确定的那样，战后时期对儿童在公共空间中的存在的监管有所增加。这些发现表明，该组织允许女童在城镇指导活动中享有一定的自由度，尽管最终这些活动受到对成员行为和行为的期望的限制。本文建立在对女童指南组织和20世纪中期青年的现有理解的基础上动作。最近，许多学者主张对20世纪青年组织内部的城市与农村，室外和室内空间之间的关系有更复杂的理解。然而，城市空间在Girlguiding中的位置仍未得到充分开发。