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Friday, October 09, 2009

Children in Britain before the First World War

Here are some interesting resources.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Here is a good link about bla bla bla

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2008/11/our_listeners_stories_of_the_f.shtml

Anonymous said...

Here is a good link dealin with children before 1920 : http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Ch-Co/Child-Saving.html

John Mullen said...

This link is a short article from the Spartacus encyclopedia. It tells us about very young soldiers, who lied about their age becaus ethey wante dto fight in the first world war. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWboy.htm

Anonymous said...

Have a look also on that one :http://www.lmi.org.uk/medical_society/18/18Ward.pdf

John Mullen said...

Here on Amazon.co.uk there is a book on the boy soldiers of the Great War. There are no customer reviews yet.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boy-Soldiers-Great-Richard-Emden/dp/0755313038/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255072571&sr=8-1

Anonymous said...

Here is an article about laws' children before 1920.http://www.childsupportanalysis.co.uk/information_and_explanation/world/history_uk.htm

Anonymous said...

Here is a link about Child Labour:


http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm

Anonymous said...

This is a link about chindren in U.K since 1870 to now:

http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/server.php?show=conInformationRecord.324

Anonymous said...

Here is a link about child support:



http://www.childsupportanalysis.co.uk/information_and_explanation/world/history_uk.htm

Anonymous said...

Here is an article about Laws' Children before 1920.
http://www.childsupportanalysis.co.uk/information_and_explanation/world/history_uk.htm

Anonymous said...

A discussion about children during World War I found on "Yahoo Answers".

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080401103124AApSEXK

John Mullen said...

This museum is about children's lives in an earlier period :

http://www.raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk/nextgen/

John Mullen said...

Here is a book on Google books about being a child before the first world war in England. It is written by Robert Roberts who wrote another famous autobiography "the classic slum".
http://books.google.fr/books?id=qeAHc4FQKakC&dq=a+ragged+schooling&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=gwJvqbKNWj&sig=IDt5_zN_Q1o2GpC70FyVKJdCV4c&hl=fr&ei=zeTOSt6wOpSEmgPf7OWEAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CCcQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Anonymous said...

another one

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/britain1906to1918/g1/cs1/g1cs1.htm

Yeah Found something great !

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Hello ^^ I'm in L1 LEA in your class and I want to know more about the exams and when is it .. I'm lost
Your lessons are really interesting I'm always excited to learn more about civilisations !

John Mullen said...

The exam will be in January. I will be able to give you more details soon. Thank you for your kind words!