Childish Things - Page 3

A collection of objects that illuminate aspects of childhood and youth. Get in touch to contribute another childish thing to our growing online exhibit.

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.

Paper Dolls

It’s amazing that such fragile items survive to tell their stories.