Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880 1990

Unique guide to the main developments in adult-child relations during the last one hundred years.

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. New ideas of childhood c. 1880-1920s; 3. Parent-child relations; 4. Children and social policies; 5. Children, schooling and the classroom; 6. Children's leisure; 7. Conclusion: disappearing childhood and children's rights; 8. Select bibliography.