Children

A boy signs a petition against slavery (bottom left)

The children who fought for the abolition of slavery

Illustration of the Children's Crusade of 1212, from the Story of the British Nation, Volume 1, by Walter Hutchinson, c1920 (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

What was the Children’s Crusade, and did it actually happen?

A 1577 portrait of Arbella Stuart, great- great-granddaughter of Henry VII, as a toddler clutching a doll

What were the games and pastimes enjoyed by Tudor children?

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Pod Nicholas Orme WL

Tudor childhood: from dodging death to nursery rhymes . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Greg Jenner WL

General History

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 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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Pod Emily Ward WL

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

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Pod Eleanor Parker WL

Children of the Norman Conquest . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

First photo of baby Charles Lindbergh Jr

Q&A Who was the Lindbergh baby?

London schoolboys on strike, Shoreditch, September 1911. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Schoolchildren on strike: when pupils demanded shorter hours

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)

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

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

Working-class girlhood in 1930s Bolton . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.