{"title":"Day nurseries and childcare in Europe, 1800–1939","authors":"H. Cunningham","doi":"10.1080/17585716.2019.1587920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2019.1587920","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37939,"journal":{"name":"Childhood in the Past","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17585716.2019.1587920","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45382323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breastfeeding: new anthropological approaches","authors":"E. Kendall","doi":"10.1080/17585716.2019.1587921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2019.1587921","url":null,"abstract":"be the domain of different specialists is another success of this volume – historical, clinical, ethnographic and statistical approaches are interwoven effortlessly with the bioarchaeological data. It is the confidence with which such a breadth of innovative ways of thinking about extant and traditional bioarchaeological data are presented that makes this book worth reading – not just skimming the odd paper which fits ones’ own research interests – but in its entirety. There is a clear sense of strong editorial direction here in the selection and ordering of the contributions, and they work together as a whole on multiple levels. This publication marks a step change in the maturation of the field of the bioarchaeology of childhood and instils excitement about what we might collectively achieve in the future.","PeriodicalId":37939,"journal":{"name":"Childhood in the Past","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17585716.2019.1587921","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45251824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nordic childhoods 1700–1960. From folk beliefs to Pippi Longstocking","authors":"Karen Vallgårda","doi":"10.1080/17585716.2019.1587918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2019.1587918","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37939,"journal":{"name":"Childhood in the Past","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17585716.2019.1587918","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47497000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to die a good death: teaching young children about mortality in nineteenth century America","authors":"J. Baxter","doi":"10.1080/17585716.2019.1587913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2019.1587913","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Infant and child mortality in the United States are at an all-time low, but 150 years ago an infant had a 1 in 4 chance of dying in their first year of life, and older children had only slightly better odds of surviving to adulthood. Scholars have questioned parental emotional investment in periods of high infant and child mortality, but few have considered how children understood mortality and the possibility of their own deaths. Adults in the nineteenth century used a variety of mechanisms to engage children with ideas of death and dying including visits to cemeteries, photography with deceased siblings, literature and poetry, and funeral play with dolls. Sources about these various practices are combined to present a case study in how children in nineteenth Century America may have come to understand death and dying in fundamentally different ways than children in the contemporary, western world.","PeriodicalId":37939,"journal":{"name":"Childhood in the Past","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17585716.2019.1587913","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46251989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children and childhood in bioarchaeology","authors":"E. Craig-Atkins","doi":"10.1080/17585716.2019.1587919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2019.1587919","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37939,"journal":{"name":"Childhood in the Past","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17585716.2019.1587919","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60433985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"E. Murphy","doi":"10.1080/17585716.2019.1587917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2019.1587917","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37939,"journal":{"name":"Childhood in the Past","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17585716.2019.1587917","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44028295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Welcome Address from the New SSCIP President – Dr Katie A. Hemer","authors":"K. A. Hemer","doi":"10.1080/17585716.2019.1587915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2019.1587915","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37939,"journal":{"name":"Childhood in the Past","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17585716.2019.1587915","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44492154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toys and the Portable Antiquities Scheme: A Source for Exploring Later Medieval Childhood in England and Wales","authors":"Emma Harper","doi":"10.1080/17585716.2017.1348647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2017.1348647","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the contribution that can be made to discussions of the nature of childhood in the later medieval period (c. 1000–1600AD) through a study of artefacts recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme, a government funded initiative that encourages the voluntary recording of archaeological objects in England and Wales. Seventy-one objects recorded by the Scheme on its online database have been classified as later medieval ‘toys’ and these form the basis for the discussion here. Paying particular attention to the objects described as figures or dolls, these finds will be integrated with evidence from archaeological excavations, contemporary written and artistic sources, and theoretical discussions of the nature of childhood in the past. It will be argued these dolls are evidence for not only adults across society imposing particular behaviours upon children, but also of the direct agency of children in the material record.","PeriodicalId":37939,"journal":{"name":"Childhood in the Past","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17585716.2017.1348647","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43331315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘One Big Playground for Kids’: A Contextual Appraisal of Some 1970s Photographs of Children Hanging Out on a Post-Second-World-War British Council Estate","authors":"Ian Waites","doi":"10.1080/17585716.2018.1495095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2018.1495095","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article gives a broad assessment of a selection of photographs taken in the early 1970s of children on a post-Second-World-War British council estate in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. As one of the cornerstones of postwar social reconstruction in Britain, the provision and design of new public housing often had the well-being of the future citizen – the child – in mind, and the photography of these estates at the time often included children as a way to promote a sense of well-being and community. This article offers a reading of these photographs as a representation of the child’s day-to-day life in this particular environment, and to present an understanding of how the planning and layout of the estate was intended to function as a crucial influence on the development of the children who lived there.","PeriodicalId":37939,"journal":{"name":"Childhood in the Past","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17585716.2018.1495095","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44390415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"E. Murphy","doi":"10.1080/17585716.2018.1495051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2018.1495051","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to Part 2 of Volume 11 of Childhood in the Past, the journal of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP). This issue includes four research papers and three book reviews. The volume commences with a paper by Mélie Le Roy, Stéphane Rottier and Anne-Marie Tillier that asks: ‘Who was a “Child” During the Neolithic in France?’. The study focuses on juvenile remains recovered from Neolithic (5700–2100 BC) tombs and investigates funerary practices, age distribution and burial location to determine the place of children within the different cultural groups of the Early, Middle and Later Neolithic in both northern and southern France. Young children seem to be under-represented across the entire Neolithic throughout France and ethnographic data is called upon to help explain this phenomenon. Four different forms of age selection are identified in relation to the juveniles contained within collective burials. The paper of Emma Harper discusses the contribution that artefacts recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme, which encourages the voluntary recording of archaeological objects in England andWales, can make to discussions of later mediaeval childhood. The study focuses on objects that have been identified as toys, and particularly those described as figures or dolls. Drawing upon evidence derived from theoretical discussions of past childhood, archaeological excavations and contemporary written and artistic accounts, she argues that the various characteristics of the dolls are suggestive of both the imposition of behaviours upon children by adults but also the direct agency of children. While contemporary documentary sources have a tendency to yield information about the play items of children from elite families, the material record has the advantage of providing a more balanced perspective since objects used for play among the lower classes of society have also been discovered. Olga Boitsova and Ekaterina Orekh investigate the significance of colour in children’s clothing in relation to the Soviet ideology of childhood in Russia. Their analysis focuses on data contained within twentieth-century Soviet advice books, brochures and thematic articles in fashion magazines, as well as postcards and illustrations from school books. They discuss how the colours evident in children’s clothing can be linked to a history of ideas, particularly in relation to issues such as gender. Their evidence suggests that children were viewed in a genderneutral, asexual manner in Soviet Russia, a perspective that did not change until the 1980s when genderization of clothing images was first observed. Up until this point official discourse on children’s clothes was unanimous and light colours, including pink, were considered markers of childhood for both boys and girls. In his paper, Ian Waites uses a selection of photographs taken in the early 1970s of children on a post-World War Two British council estate in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, as a m","PeriodicalId":37939,"journal":{"name":"Childhood in the Past","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17585716.2018.1495051","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41917715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}