Childish Things

In 1954, a news article from the Beckley News-Herald reported that a Christian youth organization, called Youth for Christ, had converted an

Many objects related to the history of childhood have been lost to time, and the one I have chosen to write about

On 2nd October 1931, a couple of weeks after the so-called Mukden Incident staged by the Japanese as an excuse for invading

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!