The Making the Long View project is one of the Timescapes qualitative longitudinal studies. The project qualitatively follows 121 young people drawn from the Youth Values study of young people. The Youth Values participants come from five areas of England and Northern Ireland that are socially and economically contrasting: an inner-city area, a disadvantaged housing estate, an isolated rural area, an affluent commuter belt suburb, and contrasting communities in a Northern Irish city. The Making the Long View project gave rise to the Inventing Adulthoods archive which now consists of the qualitative interview transcripts for the sample interviewed around six times between 1998 and 2004 as they moved from early teenage years to young adulthood at the turn of the 21st century.