This selection from The People’s Archive brings together photographs of British subculture from the 1960s through to the 1980s, spanning original mods and skinheads, 2 Tone, rudeboy style and the mod revival. These are not polished press pictures or art-school documents. They are vernacular photographs, sent in by the people who were there or kept by those close to the worlds they show.

That is exactly what gives them their value. Taken together, they capture how style, allegiance and identity were lived on the ground: in clubs, on streets, at scooter runs, outside pubs, and in the ordinary social spaces where subculture actually took shape. What they may lack in technical perfection, they more than make up for in proximity and historical weight.