This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span

This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span

"The only book in English to bring the history of childhood up to the present, Children and Childhood is essential reading for those studying the history of chi

This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span

'The history of childhood is an area so full of errors, distortion and misinterpretation that I thought it vital, if progress were to be made, to supply a clear