History of Childhood

Here is what I found relating to the history of Childhood...

Additional Reading

Barbara A. Hanawalt.(1995) Growing up in medieval London: the experience of Childhood in history. Oxford University Press.

James Walvin (1982) A child's world : a social history of English childhood, 1800-1914. London: Penguin

Grant, Julia The Journal of the history of and Childhood and Youth: Entering into the Fray: Historians of Childhood and Public Policy. Volume 3, Number 1  p107-126

Related Websites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/childhood/

http://open2.net/theinventionofchildhood/childhood_inventions.html

http://www.pineforge.com/newman6study/resources/childhood.htm

The BBC website is about the Invention of Childhood which accompanies the audio book/CD that Lin encouraged us to listen to. It looks at childhood through the ages beginning in the 11^th Century right up until the present day. It covers a vast range of subjects and areas that have affected British Childhood from the Arrival of Christianity, Black Death, Rousseau, Welfare State and much more in-between! The website has some good information on and links to other websites and programmes of interest however the CD is definitely worth a listen!