Looking back: Camping

Two people in a tent. Photograph: Alamy

23 July 1901: In praise of camping - There is no healthier way of spending a summer holiday than camping out.

14 May 1914: Camping for the middle-aged - one of the pleasantest forms of holiday, not only for the young, but also the “settled” man.

Fathers and sons in the Scout camp at Gillwell Park, Chingford, Essex, June 1966. Photograph: Frank Martin for the Guardian

5 June 1917: Nature class for city boys.

30 May 1923: Kibbo Kift, a youth movement for all ages.

Neaum Crag caravan and campsite, Lake District, June 1967. Photograph: Robert Smithies for the Guardian

21 July 1958: Le camping - French ideas of outdoor comfort.

9 June 1969: Success in the camp kitchen - food far removed from the ‘meat and two veg’ pattern.

Kokopelli Camping, Italy. Photograph: Kokopelli Camping

1 June 2009: Hadley Freeman on the fashionable practice of glamping.

10 July 2010: Why don’t black people camp?

Lee Valley Almost Wild campsite, Hertfordshire, UK. Photograph: Richard Nelsson

13 July 2010: Camping for communists - with its shared tasks and flattened hierarchies, camping is an exercise in practical communism.

4 August 2015: Why camping is a passion-killer. Seeing your new squeeze sluicing themselves down with a wet wipe is about as sexy as sticking a carrot up your nose.

Naked man covered in mud at the Woodstock Music Festival, 1994. Photograph: Alamy

30 September 2016: From Patagonia to Purbeck: wild camping photos.