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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of figures and tables
  8. List of abbreviations
  9. Notes on contributors
  10. Introduction
    1. Rethinking the history of welfare
    2. Approaches and sources
    3. Rethinking histories of modern Britain
  11. 1. Children’s experiences of the Children’s Friend Society emigration scheme to the colonial Cape, 1833–41: snapshots from compliance to rebellion
    1. The Children’s Friend Society and the Cape colony
    2. Letters home
    3. Scandals and silences
    4. Conclusion
  12. 2. ‘Their mother is a violent drunken woman who has been several times in prison’: ‘saving’ children from their families, 1850–1900
    1. ‘I determined to change my name and deny all knowledge of living relations’: children’s choices and their consequences
    2. ‘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
    3. Conclusion
  13. 3. ‘Dear Sir, remember me often if possible’: family, belonging and identity for children in care in Britain, c.1870–1920
    1. Creating an institutional ‘family’
    2. Maintaining family bonds
    3. Children’s responses to family practices
    4. Conclusion
  14. 4. Child philanthropy, family care and young bodies in Britain, 1876–1914
    1. Childhood in the public sphere
    2. Institutional care
    3. Parental and peer care
    4. Conclusion
  15. 5. ‘Everything was done by the clock’: agency in children’s convalescent homes, 1932–61
    1. Privacy
    2. Discipline
    3. Conclusion
  16. 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
    1. Essay collections
    2. Desire for reform
    3. Living conditions
    4. Education
    5. Healthcare
    6. Conclusion
  17. 7. Welfare and constraint on children’s agency: the case of post-war UK child migration programmes to Australia
    1. The policy and organizational context of post-war UK child migration to Australia
    2. The nature and effects of constraints upon child migrants’ agency
    3. Learning from children’s experience of constraint in welfare services
    4. Conclusion: thinking about children’s experiences of agency in relation to welfare
  18. 8. ‘The school that I’d like’: children and teenagers write about education in England and Wales, 1945–79
    1. Child-centred buildings
    2. Teachers and power relationships
    3. The curriculum, age and child psychology
    4. Truancy and school refusal
    5. Conclusion
  19. 9. Making their own fun: children’s play in high-rise estates in Glasgow in the 1960s and 1970s
    1. High-rise, children and play
    2. Children’s play in Glasgow’s high-rise: Queen Elizabeth Square and Mitchellhill
    3. Where did children want to play?
    4. Memories of ‘living high’ – where did you play?
    5. Conclusion
  20. 10. Teenagers, sex and the Brook Advisory Centres, 1964–85
    1. Clients’ experiences of sexual services: the challenge of finding sources
    2. The Brook Advisory Centre and its clientele
    3. Clients’ lived experiences with the clinic
    4. Clients’ influence over the service
    5. Contraception and the under-sixteens
    6. Conclusion
  21. Postscript: insights for policymakers and practitioners
  22. Index

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of figures and tables

List of abbreviations

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Siân Pooley and Jonathan Taylor

1.Children’s experiences of the Children’s Friend Society emigration scheme to the colonial Cape, 1833–41: snapshots from compliance to rebellion

Rebecca Swartz

2.‘Their mother is a violent drunken woman who has been several times in prison’: ‘saving’ children from their families, 1850–1900

Gillian Lamb

3.‘Dear Sir, remember me often if possible’: family, belonging and identity for children in care in Britain, c.1870–1920

Claudia Soares

4.Child philanthropy, family care and young bodies in Britain, 1876–1914

Siân Pooley

5.‘Everything was done by the clock’: agency in children’s convalescent homes, 1932–61

Maria Marven

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

Jonathan Taylor

7.Welfare and constraint on children’s agency: the case of post-war UK child migration programmes to Australia

Gordon Lynch

8.‘The school that I’d like’: children and teenagers write about education in England and Wales, 1945–79

Laura Tisdall

9.Making their own fun: children’s play in high-rise estates in Glasgow in the 1960s and 1970s

Valerie Wright

10.Teenagers, sex and the Brook Advisory Centres, 1964–85

Caroline Rusterholz

Postscript: insights for policymakers and practitioners

Siân Pooley and Jonathan Taylor

Index

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