Being observant and observed: embodied citizenship training in the Home Guard and the Boy Scout Movement, 1907-1945

► Explores both the Home Guard and the Boy Scouts in the early twentieth century. ► Observation as an essential embodied skill fostered by organisations. ► Individual articulated as both 'observer' and 'observed'. ► 'Not-being-seen' as a fundamental aspect of (non-)observational practice. ► Considers the evolutionary aspects of observation through the lifecourse.