The Invention of Childhood Episodes Episode guide
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Reinventing Childhood
30/30 Recalling the impact of adults on childhood down the centuries up to the present day.
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Calling a Hit a Smack
29/30 How children have fallen between the family and the state, sometimes with tragic results.
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The Disappearance of Childhood
28/30 Examining how the media and marketing have encroached on the lives of children.
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A Prison or a Garden
27/30 The story of the fight for children's rights in the second half of the 20th century.
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The Kiddy and the Pork Chop
26/30 The impact on children of economic improvements in the second half of the 20th century.
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Charlie Chaplin Went to France to Teach Ladies How to Dance
25/30 New forms of entertainment available to children in the first half of the 20th century.
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They'd some Queer Ideas at the Clinic
24/30 How behaviourists and Freudians battled over techniques for bringing up children.
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Cutting the Slum Mind off at the Root
23/30 Michael Morpurgo traces the making of Britain's Welfare State amid concerns for children.
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The Nation's Most Important Asset
22/30 Readings of the words of children about the effect of the wars of the 20th century.
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What Is the Meaning of Empire Day?
21/30 The experiences of children exiled from or who arrived in Britain under the British Empire
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The Habit of Schooling
20/30 How the 1870 Forster Education Act marked the start of compulsory education for all.
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I Ain't a Child
19/30 Victorian street children and the organisations that grew up to rescue them.
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Father, Is It Time?
18/30 Michael Morpurgo reveals children's working lives during the Industrial Revolution.
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Reinstated Divinity
17/30 How the Victorian obsession with childhood was represented in art and literature.
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How I Wish I Were a Boy
16/30 How boys went to 19th-century public schools as a shield from too much female influence.
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The Child Is Father of the Man
15/30 Evangelicals to rationalists battle over Britain's children in the 18th century.
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Babies, Dressed or Undressed, Jointed, Wax or Common
14/30 The rise of the British toy shop in the 18th century and the beginnings of pester power.
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'Dear Papa, Dear Mama'
13/30 The more informal upbringings of middle and upper-class children in the late 18th century.
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Like an Angelic Choir
11/30 Despite the acclaim for Britain's first foundling hospital, some children were neglected.
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Overburdened with Children
10/30 The Poor Law, a forerunner of the welfare state and a safety net for many poor children.
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But Can She Spin?
9/30 How girls' education regressed in the 16th century, with sinful Eve the female archetype.
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The Vast Usefulness of Reading
8/30 Michael Morpurgo explores education's expansion for boys in the 17th century.
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It Was a Precious Child
7/30 Exploring how the Puritan ethos affected children and the way of family life.
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Learn to Die
6/30 Michael Morpurgo examines Puritanism and the effects of the Reformation.
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A Thousand Histories and Fables
5/30 The impact of printing and how it raised fears among adults that it corrupted children.
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Mischief and Misrule
4/30 Were medieval children permitted to play? Early football and festivals of misrule.
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New Shoes with Red Thongs
3/30 Michael Morpurgo unearths what medieval children got up to when left unattended.
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The Skill of the Goldsmith
2/30 Michael Morpurgo wonders if medieval people recognised a phase of 'childhood'.
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The Grave and the Cradle
1/30 How the arrival of Christianity and the Norman Conquest affected British children's lives.
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Mr Locke and Mr Rousseau
The two 18th century philosophers, whose child-rearing ideas are influential to this day.