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Pharaohs’ pants & knightly toilet troubles: teaching history to kids . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A child cooks on an open fire in a medieval home
Medieval

Medieval childhood: a historical A-Z  

Mowgli is surrounded by wolves in a 1937 illustration from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book
General History

Raised by wolves: the history of feral children

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Medieval childhood: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Norman

​​Children of the Norman Conquest

First photo of baby Charles Lindbergh Jr
20th Century

Q&A Who was the Lindbergh baby?

A mother receives her newborn baby in a c1490 text written for Henry VII. Childbirth in the Middle Ages exposed both mother and child to great peril but, writes Elma Brenner, midwives had the expertise to intervene when complications arose. (Photo by Bridgeman)
Medieval

The medieval childbirth guide: 6 tips for pregnant mothers in the Middle Ages

Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
First World War

Innocence under fire: how children were used in warfare of the past

Hester Barron and Claire Langhamer reveal what we can learn from essays written by Bolton schoolgirls in 1937. (Image by Getty Images)
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Working-class girlhood in 1930s Bolton 

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Lucy Bland discusses the childhood experiences of babies fathered by African-American GIs stationed in Britain during the Second World War. (Image from Getty Images)
Second World War

Wartime Britain’s mixed-race babies

Women munition workers stacking a reserve of shell castings during WWI
First World War

Young guns: the women and children of WW1 munitions factories

A young girl reading a book. We recently asked our Twitter followers which historical fiction book inspired them as a child. (Photo by Terry Vine via Getty Images)
General Modern

Historical fiction recommendations for children: the best history books for kids

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Georgian

The orphan hero who fought at Trafalgar

1983: Princess Diana, here with Prince Charles and baby William in Australia, insisted that her sons experience normality (Photo by Bob Thomas/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
General Modern

Life in the royal nursery: growing up as a young prince or princess

Naming of St John the Baptist, c12th century. From a wall painting in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
Medieval

Medieval baby names: what were people called in the Middle Ages?

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