Childhood in question

Anthony Fletcher is Professor of History at the University of Essex. Stephen Hussey is Essex County Lecturer in History at the University of Essex

• IntroductionChapter 1: What is a child? Anna DavinChapter 2: Children's deaths in the seventeenth century. Ralph Houlbrooke.Chapter 3: Silent witnesses? Children and the breakdown of domestic and social order in early modern England.Chapter 4: 'A denial of innocence': Female juvenile victims of rape and the English legal system in the eighteenth century.Chapter 5: Home, play and street life: Causes of, and explanations for, juvenile crime in the early nineteenth century. Heather ShoreChapter 6: Parental-child separation and colonial careers: The Talbot family correspondence in the 1880s and 1890s.Elizabeth Buettner.Chapter 7: Family, community and the regulation of child sex abuse: London 1870-1914. Louise Jackson.Chapter 8: Homeless, destitute and neglected: Children's experience of welfare in modern Scotland. Lynn Abrams.