Publisher's Synopsis
Written to accompany an 8-part Channel Four series, this book taps living memory to provide a social history of childhood during the 20th-century. It will evoke childhood memories of pleasure and pain, and reveal how, more than any other, this century has been the century of childhood.;The authors chronicle the extraordinary change in the way we treat children from the "seen and not heard" days of the Edwardian era to the post-Spock liberalism of the 1960s and beyond. By drawing on many moving reminiscences the book gives a child's eye view of the experience of childhood. We hear, through first-hand interviews, tales of what it was like to grow up in the exclusive boarding school, the city slum and even in the orphange.;All three authors now form an independent television company, Domino Films.
