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If childhood is an invention, how did children once grow up?
‘Education’ stands for blackboards and computers, school benches and sculleries, china dolls or rag dolls, pies and puddings and a roast goose or bowls of pallid porridge. At the Institute of Education, beyond schooling, studying, and training, ‘Education’ encompasses bringing … Continue reading
The ‘gloomy sky’ and the ‘ruddy glow’ of Dickens’ London
“It was a Sunday evening in London, gloomy, close and stale… Nothing to see but streets, streets, streets. Nothing to breathe but streets, streets, streets.” A ‘Dickensian’ world has become a figure of speech, evoking grim workhouses and haunted graveyards, frosty … Continue reading
Posted in History of Education
Tagged Charles Dickens, child labour, childhood, Christmas, exhibitions, fiction, London, museums, novels, orphans, poverty, social history, Victorians
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Enid Blyton – the Beckenham years
Just added to our stock is a new DVD on the early life of children’s author Enid Blyton. Produced by Footprint Productions in Bromley, this production looks at the formative years of the woman who would later go on to … Continue reading
Posted in Library
Tagged audiovisual resources, biography, childhood, children's authors, Enid Blyton, video
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