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32%OFFFran Abrams - Songs of Innocence: The Story of British Childhood - 9781843548966 - V9781843548966
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Songs of Innocence: The Story of British Childhood

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Description for Songs of Innocence: The Story of British Childhood Hardcover. From the children of Victoria's reign to the kids of the new millennium, Songs of Innocence explores the seismic shift in attitudes to our formative years and reveals what has made successive generations young. Num Pages: 304 pages, black and white frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 598. The Story of British Childhood. 304 pages, black and white frontispiece. From the children of Victoria's reign to the kids of the new millennium, Songs of Innocence explores the seismic shift in attitudes to our formative years and reveals what has made successive generations young. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSP1. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 28. Weight: 598.

As recently as one hundred years ago British children existed in ways now unthinkable; boys as young as eight worked gruelling hours in unlit factories; girls were sold into sexual slavery with dolls still in their grasp; and boys at schools like Rugby and Harrow were brutally trained for their future at the helm of Britain's vast red empire. In Songs of Innocence Fran Abrams charts the transformation of childhood in the UK from early Victorian disagreements about child-rearing to the Scouts' very direct involvement in the First World War. Poignant first-hand accounts of poverty and deprivation as well as ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843548966
SKU
V9781843548966
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About Fran Abrams
Fran Abrams is an investigative journalist and author. She makes regular documentaries for BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme, and also writes for the Guardian and other newspapers. She has written three books. The first two, Below the Breadline, about life on the minimum wage, and Freedom's Cause, about the suffragettes, were published by Profile ... Read more

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