Cadets of Temperance Sash
A red sash worn by leaders of the Cadets of Temperance, a juvenile activist society of the 1850s.
DIGITAL CHILDHOODS
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The Footprint of an Enslaved Child
A dwelling house in Durham, North Carolina, testifies to the lives of enslaved children
The World’s Oldest Toy?
Is it possible to identify the oldest surviving toy? Archaeologist Jane Eva Baxter considers some of the candidates.
Tudor Nursery Rhymes
Children are the great unknown of history, until the last couple of centuries. Very little survives about what they did each day,
Roman Baby Bottles
These ancient pottery vessels, retaining traces of milk, provide a tangible link to parents in the past.
Amy’s Questionnaires
A Milwaukee teenager's 1916 questionnaires made her into an amateur sociologist of 20th-century girlhood
Toilet Paper Tubes
As a child, I used to play with cardboard toilet roll tubes, empty breakfast cereal packets, egg boxes, and any sheet of
Argun’s Photograph Album
"This is my treasure. This is my life." The only possession that survived Argun's childhood journey from Cyprus to the UK.
The Life of a Slum Child
A fundraising booklet for the Child Gardens of Edwardian Edinburgh.
Wise Robot Foki the Martian
The first toy of its kind to be designed and manufactured in South America.