How did French people write about their own childhood and youth between the 1760s and the 1930s? Colin Heywood argues that this was a critical period in the history of young people, as successive generations moved from the relatively stable and hierarchical society of the Ancien Regime to a more flu[...]
The central theme of this book is the changing experience of childhood among the peasants and working classes of nineteenth-century France. Manual work and informal methods of education in the local community became less prominent at this stage of life, whilst the primary school loomed increasingly [...]
This work explores the changing experiences and perceptions of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. It examines the different ways in which people have thought about childhood as a stage of life.[...]
I ladugård och stall, på fält och i fabrik arbetade barn i Västeuropa en bit in på 1900-talet. Barns bidrag till familjers försörjning var viktig. Arbete var en naturlig del av uppväxten. Idag uppfostras barn på andra sätt. Skolan har kommit att ersätta arbetet för de yngre tonåringarna[...]