Pasts at Play

Childhood Encounters with History in British Culture, 1750–1914

Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling

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Manchester University Press
01 June 2023

Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century

This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children’s Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children’s culture and the uses of the past.

It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.

Edited by: Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 15mm
ISBN: 9781526171825
ISBN 10: 1526171821
Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 June 2023
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rachel Bryant Davies is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London Barbara Gribling is a Visiting Researcher in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University -- .

Reviews for Pasts at Play: Childhood Encounters with History in British Culture, 1750–1914

'Pasts at play makes a valuable contribution to scholarship on informal learning, revealing how much more we understand about the history of education when we look beyond the school gates.' Sian Pooley, Victorian Studies -- .