Childish Things

Beginning in 1928, the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women (SOSBW), an off-shoot of the Overseas Settlement Committee, launched four

Growing up with strict parents who value good manners, I have always had a close affinity with the history of manners in

Throughout twentieth-century Ireland, social, political, and commercial concerns shaped public discourses about children’s play. Parents were scrutinised for their ability to provide

At the dawn of the 1960s, skateboarding burst onto the scene so quickly that parents and community leaders were unsure how to

For years after the introduction of mandatory elementary education for boys and girls in 1872, some of Japan’s pupils commuted in horse

During the Second World War, the material worlds and realities of children were transformed entirely, from the everyday spaces they occupied to

This late Gothic tapestry reveals how Europeans perceived Romani immigrants. Children were at the very heart of it!

Much to the dismay of historians studying the material culture of early modern childhood, few examples of children’s clothing survive from the

On a hot August evening in 1935, many of the six hundred residents of Inwood, Iowa, watched as nearly twenty little girls

In 1695, Charles Perrault dedicted his collection of fairy tales Tales of Mother Goose to nineteen-year-old Élisabeth-Charlotte d’Orléans, the niece of Louis