The invention of childhood, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. Unabridged. Readings by Timothy West, Jack Blumenau, Philip Fox, Adam Godley, Sara Kestleman, Anna Maxwell Martin and Gerard McDermott.
Contents:
cd 1. The Middle Ages -- cd 2. The 16th and 17th century -- cd 3. The 18th century -- cd 4. The 19th century -- cd 5. 1900-1950 -- cd 6. 1950-The present.
Summary:
Presented by award-winning children's writer Michael Morpurgo, this genuinely ground-breaking history of British childhood from the year 1000 to the present explores, through a wide and colourful range of primary sources, how the idea of childhood has been constantly reinvented down the centuries and why the role of children in society continues to obsess us today. Fascinating and thought-provoking, it will appeal to parents, grandparents and anyone who has ever been a child themselves
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