Centuries of progress?
7 April 2005
Children's lives and society's notions of how they
should be treated are dramatically different from the past Children are real
living people, but childhood is a set of ideas about...
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Further reading
7 April 2005
* Priscilla Alderson (2000) Young Children's Rights.
Jessica Kingsley. * Philippe Aries (1962) Centuries of Childhood trans R
Baldrick. London: Cape.
The weekly washday
7 April 2005
Right into the 20th century children helped with the
family's weekly washday. Bessie Wallis remembers being six years old in 1910.
'I hated Mondays because this was wash day. All...
Work and play
7 April 2005
For thousands of years, history was mainly 'his-story'.
We know little about women's daily lives, still less about children's. Fashions
and views changed over time and place, but there were...
Leisure: from child to adult control
7 April 2005
Besides working hard, medieval children and adults
enjoyed many more holidays (holydays) than we have bank holidays. In the 1500s
there was concern that people were on holiday so often,...
Religion: love and death
7 April 2005
The records of children's own writing tend to be very
religious. Dorothy Plumpton, writing about 1600 to beg her father to allow her
to return home, ends, 'And I beseech...
Bringing up baby
7 April 2005
The only constant thing about baby care through the
years is that it keeps changing in fashion and philosophy The history of babies
is interesting for the wild swings of...
History lessons
7 April 2005
People in every time and place 'construct' different
childhoods (James and Prout 1997; Hendrick 2003). That is, they hold certain
beliefs and values that guide their behaviours and policies, which...
Damage limitation
7 April 2005
Tips on child safety are provided in our latest series
on child health by doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital Every day, 6,500
children end up in accident and emergency...
Children still need our help
7 April 2005
By Roger Singleton, chief executive, Barnardo's This is
Barnardo's centenary year and we are celebrating the difference Barnardo's
continues to make to the lives of thousands of children and young...
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