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Young Children Visit Museums: Cultural and Creative Perspectives Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Nancy Longnecker
Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Explaining Variation in Juvenile Punishment: The Role of Communities and Systems Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Reno Diqqi Alghzali, Asmadi Alsa, Akif Khilmiyah
Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Normative, Atypical or Deviant? Interpreting Prehistoric and Protohistoric Child Burial Practices Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Jonny Geber
Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Children Under the Floor: An Emotional Response to a Middle Helladic Burial Practice Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2023-09-24 Anthi Balitsari
The paper discusses the emotional context of child burials performed during the Middle Helladic period in houses still in use. Recent evidence, gained mainly from modern fieldwork, supports the rea...
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The Medieval Changeling: Health, Childcare, and the Family Unit Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Kori Lea Filipek
Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2023)
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‘No Friend for Sorrow but Memory’: Commemorating Children in Early Post-Plantation Ulster, Ireland Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Lynne McKerr, Eileen Murphy
ABSTRACT This paper explores the social visibility of children from Gaelic Irish and settler families during the 17th and 18th centuries given the very significant economic and cultural changes which followed the Plantation of Ulster. Predominantly Protestant settlers from Britain ousted native Catholic congregations from traditional places of worship, which became Protestant churches, and graveyards
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Oxford Textbook of the Newborn, a Cultural and Medical History Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Siân Halcrow, Qian Zhang
Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2023)
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Editorial Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Eileen M. Murphy
Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2023)
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The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology (1st Edition) Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Lucy A. Kavale-Henderson
Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2023)
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Mark Golden (6 August 1948 – 9 April 2020) Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Pauline Ripat
Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2023)
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Marginalising Maternity: Iconography as Evidence for Social Ideologies in Classical Athens Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Sally Waite, Emma Gooch
ABSTRACT Representations of motherhood are rare on Athenian painted pottery from the fifth century BC. This lack of representation is surprising given producing and caring for children was one of a woman’s key duties in ancient Athenian society, and other evidence demonstrates the close bonds women had with their children, especially infants who were all the more in need of care and attention. In this
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Editorial Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Eileen M. Murphy
Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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Palaeolithic Children Come of Age Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2023-04-28 April Nowell
ABSTRACT Comprising at least half of the population of prehistoric societies, children were ubiquitous on Palaeolithic sites. Despite an extensive record of their lifeways, studying children in the deep past presents archaeologists with unique challenges including differential preservation, the use of children as holotypes, interpretive bias, choice of model for the pace of growth and development,
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Dying Young: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Child Health in Roman Britain Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Stephie R. Lončar
Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Stacey M. Ward
Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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The Archaeology of Childhood, 2nd ed. Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Siân E. Halcrow
Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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The Children in Child Health: Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Heather T. Battles, Samantha Maitland
Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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The Representation of Baby Food Advertisements in the UK and the US from the Late 1880s to the 1940s Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Daniela Cesiri
ABSTRACT The industrialised production of baby food in the UK and in the USA starts in the late nineteenth century with technological advancements in food preservation. It also led to a flourishing of promotional advertisements. The study analyses baby food advertisements by the brands Allenbury and Mellin at the early stages of their business (1880s–1940s). Visual and verbal analyses are conducted
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‘Sad ol’ mush’: The Poetics and Politics of Porridge in Residential Schools in Canada Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2022-07-18 L. Sasha Gora
ABSTRACT In Indian School Days, Basil Johnston remembers eating watery porridge – ‘sad ol’ mush’ – at St. Peter Claver School for Boys. A collaboration between the Canadian government and Christian churches to assimilate Indigenous children, residential schools served food that aligned with this mission. Zooming in on the history of the poetics and politics of porridge, this article weaves together
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Small Bites: Biocultural Dimensions of Children’s Food and Nutrition Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Charlotte L. King
Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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Children’s Literature, Food, and Identity in Times of Crisis and Change: A Literary-Historical Approach Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Anna Gasperini
Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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‘Bedouin Boy With Camel’: An Analysis of Archival Photographs of Bedouin Children in Palestine Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Edna Barromi-Perlman, Ruth Kark
ABSTRACT This study analyzes photographs found in historical archives of Bedouin children in Palestine from over a hundred years ago. The Bedouin children were photographed in their natural environment by foreign European photographers touring the Holy Land. Young children were photographed held by their mothers, at work, on a path, or near the tent. The research unravels the context in which the pictures
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Between Fantasy and Harsh Reality: Presentations of Food in Israeli Children’s Journals in Times of Austerity Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Zohar Shavit
ABSTRACT This article examines 1950s Israeli children’s journals’ dual attitude towards the austerity regime that characterised the early years of Israel’s statehood. While they endorsed austerity and prompted children to do their part in the national struggle for survival, they simultaneously depicted food fantasies set in remote or fantastical worlds, offering young readers an escape from the harsh
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Bioarchaeological Approaches to the Study of Adolescence Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2022-04-15 L. C. Avery, T. L. Prowse, S. Findlay, M. B. Brickley
ABSTRACT Adolescence is a key phase of the life course in modern western society, yet the study of adolescence in past populations has only recently developed. In this paper, we explore patterns of biological and social changes during adolescence, some of the challenges associated with this type of research, and how bioarchaeologists can explore this transitional period of life using macroscopic and
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Editorial Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Eileen M. Murphy
(2022). Editorial. Childhood in the Past: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-2.
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Bioarchaeology of Care Through a Population Level Analysis Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Melandri Vlok
(2022). Bioarchaeology of Care Through a Population Level Analysis. Childhood in the Past: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 79-80.
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The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Rebecca Gowland
(2022). The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction. Childhood in the Past: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 77-79.
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The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Anne Marie Sohler-Snoddy
(2022). The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects. Childhood in the Past: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 75-76.
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Don’t Forget the Children! A Review of the Consequences of Natural Disasters and Epidemics on Childhood Health and Mortality in the Past Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Kirsty Squires, Esme Hookway, Nicholas Márquez-Grant
ABSTRACT Natural disasters, pandemics, and epidemics have devastating impacts on communities. Poverty, famine, ill health, social isolation, and death are some of the consequences of such events. Transformations in culture, religion, political and economic stability, and other social aspects can also be attributed to catastrophic incidents. Whilst such events have been well documented and studied,
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Skeletal Growth Status in a Physically Abused Child from the Kellis 2 Cemetery, Egypt Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Michele M. Bleuze, Sandra M. Wheeler, Lana J. Williams
ABSTRACT Differences between estimated dental and skeletal ages can provide a gauge of an individual’s growth status, which more broadly reflects an individual’s health status. This case study provides a summary of the skeletal growth status in a dentally aged 2.0–2.5-year-old (Burial 519) victim of chronic physical abuse from the Kellis 2 cemetery (cal AD 100–450), Egypt. Absolute size of postcranial
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Exploring the Verbal and Nonverbal Messages of Children Through Janusz Korczak’s Lens Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-11-09 Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur
ABSTRACT Janusz Korczak (1878?–1942), an outstanding Polish pedagogue, theoretician and practitioner, conducted systematic research on the language of children, as evidenced by their verbal statements and the description of nonverbal behaviour included in his pedagogical works. The article presents the results of the analysis of the most important pedagogical text by Janusz Korczak, i.e. How to Love
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The Physical Growth of Children in Iwate Prefecture from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s: A Literature Review Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Takahiro Mitsui
ABSTRACT Until the mid-1960s, municipal areas were distinct in northern Japan’s Iwate Prefecture, and included the following: urban areas (Morioka), steel industrial areas (Kamaishi), rice granary areas, millet-producing areas, and fishery towns. The sub-optimal physiques of children in millet-producing areas was reported and was a known public health concern. This paper examines the historic physical
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Childhood in Colonial Otago, New Zealand: Integrating Isotopic and Dental Evidence for Growth Disturbance and Oral Health Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Charlotte L. King, Rebecca L. Kinaston, Anne Marie E. Snoddy, Hallie R. Buckley, Peter Petchey, Andrew R. Millard, Darren R. Gröcke
ABSTRACT Experiences of childhood in colonial New Zealand are difficult to reconstruct from the historical record alone. Many of those who came to the colony were illiterate, and the Victorian tendency to avoid discussion of pregnancy and breastfeeding practices restricts our understanding of this important period. Bioarchaeological investigation, however, has the potential to illuminate the life stories
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Introduction Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-09-07
(2021). Introduction. Childhood in the Past: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 75-79.
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Exploring Environmental Influences on Infant Development and Their Potential Role in Processes of Cultural Transmission and Long-Term Technological Change Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-09-07
ABSTRACT Emerging understanding of the extent to which the childhood environment can influence long-term neural and cognitive development may justify greater attention to its role in prehistory. In this review, we attempt to identify a range of ways in which changes to the rearing environment might impact on cognitive function with the potential to modify processes of cultural transmission. We focus
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Feeding Babies at the Beginnings of Urbanization in Central Europe Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-09-07
ABSTRACT Small ceramic vessels with spouts, from which liquid can be poured, became popular during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Central Europe (c. 1200–600 BC). Such feeding vessels represent a functional type and are highly variable in size, shape and decoration. Found both on settlements and within graves, their association with child burials suggest they might have been used to feed babies
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When Children Mark the Change: Funerary Rituals and Socio-Demographic Dynamics in Pontecagnano (Salerno, Campania) between the 9th and 5th Centuries BCE Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-09-07
ABSTRACT Pontecagnano is one of the largest pre-Roman sites in southern Italy, best known for its necropolises, located around the inhabited area. Archaeological excavations of the burial areas have uncovered more than ten thousand burials. Several studies have highlighted different phases of the settlement’s development from the 9th to the 3rd century BCE, which are marked by major societal and cultural
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Votive Statuettes Representing Pairs with Infant/s in Latium Vetus and Southern Etruria: Religious Agency, Family Dynamics and the Role of Space Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-09-07
ABSTRACT The focus of this article is a particular type of votive statuette representing an adult male and female with infant(s) produced in ancient Latium and southern Etruria from approximately the 5th to the 2nd century BCE. By analyzing this material, my research provides hypotheses regarding who and what is behind the act of offering a votive representation of adult(s) with infant(s). The usage
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Children’s Urban Environments in an Ancient City: Social and Physical Realities Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-09-07
ABSTRACT The crucial roles played by young people in the lives of ancient urban and civic spaces has been underestimated in discussions of urban life. Through our case study in Roman Egypt, we scrutinize expectations placed on young people, the specific roles they would have taken in these environments, and their agency in shaping, and responding to, the expectations and demands placed on them by their
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Contagion in the Capital: Exploring the Impact of Urbanisation and Infectious Disease Risk on Child Health in Nineteenth-Century London, England Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-09-07
ABSTRACT Nineteenth-century London was notorious for overcrowding, poor housing, and heavy air pollution. With a large proportion of its population living in conditions of poverty, diseases flourished as people were increasingly drawn to the industrialising centres of England in search of employment opportunities. Utilising historical documentary and skeletal evidence, this paper explores the impact
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Epilogue Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-09-07
(2021). Epilogue. Childhood in the Past: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 193-196.
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Growing Up in the Ice Age. Fossil and Archaeological Evidence of the Lived Lives of Plio-Pleistocene Children Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-09-07
(2021). Growing Up in the Ice Age. Fossil and Archaeological Evidence of the Lived Lives of Plio-Pleistocene Children. Childhood in the Past: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 197-199.
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Patterns of Human Growth Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-09-07
(2021). Patterns of Human Growth. Childhood in the Past: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 199-201.
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The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-09-07
(2021). The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time. Childhood in the Past: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 201-202.
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Editorial Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Eileen M. Murphy
(2021). Editorial. Childhood in the Past: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 1-2.
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New Prospects for Investigating Early Life-Course Experiences and Health in Archaeological Fetal, Perinatal and Infant Individuals Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Claire M. Hodson
ABSTRACT Children have become firmly embedded within multidisciplinary investigations of young lives, yet within these studies, the youngest members of past populations persist in lingering on the margins of discussion. Fetal, perinatal and infant lives are tangential; unable to articulate their thoughts and feelings, with their position and role in society typically a product of parental or wider
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‘The Child that is Born of One’s Fair Body’ – Maternal and Infant Death in Medieval Ireland Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Eileen M. Murphy
ABSTRACT The paper explores the historical and archaeological evidence for maternal and infant death in medieval Ireland. An overview of a range of historical sources including law tracts, medical documents, and folklore are investigated for insights concerning the treatment of pregnant women, abortion, post-mortem caesarean, and the nature of herbs that were administered to assist with female reproductive
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Childhood and Identity Acquisition in the Late Prehispanic Ónavas Valley, Sonora, Mexico Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Cristina García-Moreno, Patricia Olga Hernández Espinoza, James T. Watson
ABSTRACT Identity acquisition is a lifelong process that begins prior to birth (passive), becomes more active with self-awareness, and continues throughout the enculturation process. We argue that in childhood, as a liminal period of the life course, individuals are subject to a combination of active and passive forces of identity acquisition, largely determined first by family/parental decisions,
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The Earliest Europeans. A Year in the Life: Seasonal Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-05-03 April Nowell
(2021). The Earliest Europeans. A Year in the Life: Seasonal Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic. Childhood in the Past: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 69-70.
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Ages and Abilities: The Stages of Childhood and their Social Recognition in Prehistoric Europe and Beyond (SSCIP Monograph 9) Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Ellen Kendall
(2021). Ages and Abilities: The Stages of Childhood and their Social Recognition in Prehistoric Europe and Beyond (SSCIP Monograph 9) Childhood in the Past: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 70-72.
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Childhood in History: Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Maureen Carroll
(2021). Childhood in History: Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds. Childhood in the Past: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 72-74.
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The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Lynne McKerr
Although acknowledgement of children in the archaeological record has been very welcome, the significance of the relationship between mothers and infants is only just beginning to be considered; th...
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Childhood, Orphans and Underage Heirs in Medieval Rural England: Growing Up in the Village Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Hugh Cunningham
Miriam Muller’s aim is to increase understanding of rural childhoods in England between the late thirteenth century and the end of the fourteenth century, a period marked by two crises, famine betw...
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Children’s voices from the past: new historical and interdisciplinary perspectives Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Emma Watkins
This book sought to ‘find children’s voices in the past’ but with the acknowledgment of the ‘theoretical impossibility of directly and simply reading “experience” or “voice”’ (9). This collection h...
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Educating a ‘Creative Class’: Anti-Disciplinary School Architecture in the Early 1970s Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Anthony Raynsford
ABSTRACT In 1970, Sim Van der Ryn, professor of architecture at the University of California in Berkeley, together with a group of collaborators, who included the schoolchildren themselves, embarked on a series of experiments in alternative school designs. The emphasis was on breaking down the institutional spatial order into smaller, ad hoc, personalised spaces, or else spaces for unexpected encounters
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Programming Emotional Care: The Nuffield Study of the Children’s Hospital, 1963 Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Roy Kozlovsky
ABSTRACT The essay examines the integration of psychological expertise into the planning of the post-war children’s hospital in England. Its main objects of analysis are the Platt Report (1959), which conceptualized the child’s emotional needs and fears as distinct from those of adults, and the Nuffield Foundation’s study Children in Hospital (1963), one of the earliest attempts to develop a scientific
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Architectural Pragmatism and Poetry: Childhood in Fascist Era Summer Camps Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Stephanie Pilat, Paolo Sanza
ABSTRACT During the Fascist rule in Italy (1922–43), the regime sponsored and encouraged the construction of thousands of children’s summer camps or colonie (singular colonia) as part of a mission to shape the physical bodies and minds of the youngest citizens of the nation. Although the colonia building type originated in the nineteenth century, the regime adapted the type to their aims and constructed
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From Social Spaces to Training Fields: Evolution of Design Theory of the Children’s Public Sphere in Hungary in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Luca Csepely-Knorr, Mária Klagyivik
ABSTRACT The first half of the twentieth century brought turbulent changes into the political and social scene of Hungary. Within a few decades the country shifted from being a partner in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, to the short-lived Hungarian – and later Soviet – Republic and ultimately to the independent Kingdom of Hungary. These changes strongly affected the ideologies of all fields of life
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Spaces for children as ‘citizens of the future’ by political ideologies of the twentieth century Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Alexandra Alegre, Yael Allweil
ABSTRACT This paper constitutes an introduction to the special journal issue on the twentieth-century architecture for children regarded as ‘citizens of the future’ by several distinct ideologies. Four papers from different geographical areas, performed at different times of the twentieth century, comprise the issue and present a rich array of political projects which nonetheless shared the belief
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The Anthropology of the Fetus. Biology, Culture and Society Childhood in the Past Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Rebecca Gowland