Children’s Experiences of Welfare in Modern Britain

Introduction

1.Children’s experiences of the Children’s Friend Society emigration scheme to the colonial Cape, 1833-41: snapshots from compliance to rebellion
Rebecca Swartz

2.‘Their mother is a violent drunken woman who has been several times in prison’: ‘saving’ children from their families, 1850-1900
Gillian Lamb

3.‘Dear Sir, remember me often if possible’: family, belonging, and identity for children in care in Britain, c. 1870-1920
Claudia Soares

4.Child philanthropy, family care and young bodies in Britain 1876-1914
Siân Pooley

5.‘Everything was done by the clock’: agency in children’s convalescent homes, 1932-61
Maria Marven

6.‘The Borough Council have done a great deal … I hope they continue to do so in the future’: children, community and the welfare state, 1941-55
Jonathan Taylor

7.Welfare and constraint on children’s agency: the case of post-war UK child migration programmes to Australia
Gordon Lynch

8.‘The school that I’d like’: children and teenagers write about education in England and Wales, 1945-79
Laura Tisdall

9.Making their own fun: children’s play in high-rise estates in Glasgow in the 1960s and 1970s
Valerie Wright

10.Teenagers, sex and the Brook Advisory Centres, 1964-85
Caroline Rusterholz

Postscript: Insights for policy-makers and practitioners

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Siân Pooley (Editor)

Siân Pooley teaches modern British history at Magdalen College, Oxford. She is an associate professor in the History Faculty, Oxford University, and a director of Oxford University’s Centre for the History of Childhood. She is the co-author of Parenthood Between Generations: Transforming Reproductive Cultures (2016) and The Diary of Elizabeth Lee: Growing Up On Merseyside in the Late Nineteeenth Century (2010).

Jonathan Taylor (Editor)

After completing his History DPhil, Jonathan Taylor worked as a Research Assistant on the ‘Changing Lives’ research project, based at the Calleva Research Centre, Magdalen College, Oxford. This interdisciplinary project sought to understand the life-long impact of early life experiences prospectively in order to help identify what best supports people across the course of their lives. He is now working as a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol’s School for Policy Studies.

‘…this is an engaging and accessible collection that contributes numerous insights to the historiographies of childhood, welfare, and modern Britain, and it is sure to be of interest to researchers and students working in any of these areas. This enjoyable book concludes that “[c]hildren’s experiences of welfare are important, not merely because children are investments for the future, but because their lives matter now” (278) and it should prove valuable to anyone interested in children’s welfare, regardless of their disciplinary or academic affiliations.’

Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth

Subject: British and Irish History, History

BISAC codes: HIS015070, POL019000, SOC047000

Thema codes: JKSB1, VFDJ

Keywords: Brook Advisory Centre, Children’s Friend Society emigration scheme, Commonwealth, Glasgow, The Borough Council, agency, child, child history, child philanthropy, child playground, childhood, family history, housing estate, migration programme, neglect, parenting, play-area design, sex education, social security, teenage, teenagers, welfare state, women in prison

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