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table of contents
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of figures and tables
List of abbreviations
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Rethinking the history of welfare
Approaches and sources
Rethinking histories of modern Britain
1. Children’s experiences of the Children’s Friend Society emigration scheme to the colonial Cape, 1833–41: snapshots from compliance to rebellion
The Children’s Friend Society and the Cape colony
Letters home
Scandals and silences
Conclusion
2. ‘Their mother is a violent drunken woman who has been several times in prison’: ‘saving’ children from their families, 1850–1900
‘I determined to change my name and deny all knowledge of living relations’: children’s choices and their consequences
‘I shall always look on the time I spent at Waterlands as being the turning point of my life’: the importance of relationships in intervention
Conclusion
3. ‘Dear Sir, remember me often if possible’: family, belonging and identity for children in care in Britain, c.1870–1920
Creating an institutional ‘family’
Maintaining family bonds
Children’s responses to family practices
Conclusion
4. Child philanthropy, family care and young bodies in Britain, 1876–1914
Childhood in the public sphere
Institutional care
Parental and peer care
Conclusion
5. ‘Everything was done by the clock’: agency in children’s convalescent homes, 1932–61
Privacy
Discipline
Conclusion
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
Essay collections
Desire for reform
Living conditions
Education
Healthcare
Conclusion
7. Welfare and constraint on children’s agency: the case of post-war UK child migration programmes to Australia
The policy and organizational context of post-war UK child migration to Australia
The nature and effects of constraints upon child migrants’ agency
Learning from children’s experience of constraint in welfare services
Conclusion: thinking about children’s experiences of agency in relation to welfare
8. ‘The school that I’d like’: children and teenagers write about education in England and Wales, 1945–79
Child-centred buildings
Teachers and power relationships
The curriculum, age and child psychology
Truancy and school refusal
Conclusion
9. Making their own fun: children’s play in high-rise estates in Glasgow in the 1960s and 1970s
High-rise, children and play
Children’s play in Glasgow’s high-rise: Queen Elizabeth Square and Mitchellhill
Where did children want to play?
Memories of ‘living high’ – where did you play?
Conclusion
10. Teenagers, sex and the Brook Advisory Centres, 1964–85
Clients’ experiences of sexual services: the challenge of finding sources
The Brook Advisory Centre and its clientele
Clients’ lived experiences with the clinic
Clients’ influence over the service
Contraception and the under-sixteens
Conclusion
Postscript: insights for policymakers and practitioners
Index
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