Songs of Innocence (38 page)
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abortion
210
Abortion Act
212
Abrams, Mark
163
accidental death, danger of
32–3
achievement, need for dedication
228–9
Adams, John
32
added value, extracting
228–9
Adey, Eileen
130
adoptions
38
adult world, mixed up with children’s world
233–4
adults, suspicion of
237
advertising
227
affluence, diseases of
152
,
225–6
Airlie, Lord
138
Aldermaston march, second
159
alehouses, fetching of beer from
24
Alexander, Catharine
95
Allitt, Beverley
224
alternative magazines
186
Altmark
incident
134
Amalgamated Press
63
American style parenting
177–8
Americana, golden age of
156
,
158–9
anarchism
56
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett
28
Anderson, Jim
187
Anderson Committee
121
Approved Schools
164
Archives of Paediatrics
52
Armitage, Robert
24
Arthur, C. J.
84
Association of County Councils
216
Association of University Teachers
29
attachment, Bowlby’s theory of
150
Austen, Jane
37
Australia
135
child migration to
106–9
autism
179–81
Auty, Eli
33
baby boom generation, myth of
151
baby-farming
36–8
Baden-Powell, Agnes
80
Baden-Powell, Robert
55–6
,
58
,
61–2
,
78
,
79–80
Baden-Powell League of Health and Manliness
61
Bainbridge, Beryl
222
Ballet Shoes
(Streatfeild)
204
Barnardo, Thomas
106
battered child syndrome
198
Battersea Boys
19
Baxter, Richard
223
BBC
163–4
Beckford, Jasmine
198
Bell, Norma
192–3
Bembridge grammar school
134
benefits, welfare
242
Bennett, Keith
191
Beveridge Report
138–40
Bevin, Ernest
129–30
Bewes, Wyndham
114–15
Bill Haley and the Comets
161
biological determinism
93
,
98–9
,
174
Birkenhead
, HMS
122
Birmingham
19
birth rate
late-Victorian
38–9
post-war
151
Blackboard Jungle
(film)
161
Blair, Tony
222
Blitz, the
129
Blue Lagoon, The
(de Vere Stacpoole)
45
Blue Lamp, The
(film)
163
boarding out
10
boredom
253
Bournemouth University
224
boy combatants, World War I
82–4
Boy Scouts
11th CK Troop
79
foundation
61–2
membership
78
origins
55–6
Scouts Defence Corps
79–80
boys, leisure
62
Boys’ Brigade
61–2
Brady, Ian
190–1
Brameld, William
33–4
bread
56–7
British Communist Party
158
British Hygiene Council
98
British Paediatric Association
181
British Trust for Ornithology
112
British Union of Fascists
117–18
Brookes, George
33
Brown, Dorothy
130
Brown, Edward Vipont
48
Brown, Flo
107–8
Buckmaster, Viscount
210
Bulger, James, murder of
3
,
220–3
,
225
,
233
Burgess, George
194
Butler, Josephine
14–15
Butler, ‘Rab’
140–1
Cable Street, Battle of
117–18
Campbell, Helen
51
Campbell, Janet
29
Camps, Francis
198
Canada, child migration to
106
,
109
,
135–6
cancer, and diet
235
cannabis
182
Cannell, Phillis
140
care, freedom from
201–2
Care and Feeding of Children
(Holt)
61
Carlile, Kimberley
198
Carrington, C. A.
130–1
Chelsea Babies Club
94
Chelsea Boys
19–20
Chester
, HMS
83
Chesterton, G. K.
98
battered child syndrome
198
missed warnings
195
,
196
,
197
,
199
recognition of problem
194–9
sexual
215–19
child development
244
Bowlby’s theory of attachment
150
child development movement
52
child indoctrination, inter-war years
113–17
child migration
inter-war years
105–9
World War II
135
child murderers
101–5
,
192–4
,
220–3
child murders
190–4
,
202
,
224
,
237
child neglect
12–13
child rearing
Edwardian approach
48–52
natural approach
48
child sex-trafficking
14
child starvation
12–13
childcare experts
Edwardian
48–52
childcare manuals
60
childhood, changing attitudes to
1–8
,
187–90
childishness, importance of
42–3
children
added value
228–9
as burden
209–10
financial liability of
247–8
investment in
245
as investment in the future
240
as lifestyle choice
225
myths about
240–2
purpose of
208
role of
246
state investment in
243–4
Children Act 1948
146–7
Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1955
158
Children’s Act 1908
104
Children’s Angry Brigade
185
Children’s Charter
9–15
Children’s Commissioner for England
5–6
Children’s Express
229
children’s homes, sexual abuse accusations
216
Children’s Legal Centre
213
children’s literature
career novels
204–5
Edwardian
44–5
girls
204–5
inter-war years
95–6
children’s mental health system
181
Children’s Overseas Reception Board
135–6
children’s rights
5
,
185–6
,
189–90
,
199
,
213
,
214–15
,
234
,
242
Children’s Rights
(magazine)
185
Child’s Play 3
(film)
221
Christian Action Research Education Campaigns
212
Churchill, Winston
139
cigarettes
56
City of Benares
, SS, sinking of
135–6
Clark, Gill and Neil
225
class divide, the
66–9
Cleveland child sexual abuse case
216–18
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
189
collective investment
243–4
Colwell, Maria
194–9
Colwell, Raymond
195–6
Comăneci, Nadia
203–4
Comic Cuts
63
comics and comic strips
62–3
,
157–8
communism
115–17
Communist Sunday Schools
115–16
comprehensive schools
175–6
computers
236
Condon, John
82–3
confidence
253
conformity, post-war
149–50
Connor, John
20
consent, age of
15
Conservative Political Centre
168–9
Contented Little Baby Book
(Ford)
243
Coon, Caroline
215
Copsey, Emma
32
Cornwell, Jack
83
corruption, fear of
241–2
Court, David
181
crime
100
Criminal Law Amendment Act
15
criminal punishment
104
criminality, and childhood experience
193–4
Crompton, Richmal
96
Croydon High School
28
cruelty
3
Cuban Missile Crisis
159
Daily Mail
22
,
59
,
63
,
115
,
221–2
,
225
,
235
Daily News
104
Daily Worker
116
Dalgety, Susan
237
Dartington Hall School
111–13
,
118
,
130–2
Darwinism
51
Davies, Maureen
219
Dawson, Judith
218
de Vere Stacpoole, Henry
45
de Witt, Dorothy
131
death, attitude to
33–4
defective children
100
Denham, Buckinghamshire
122–3
,
128–9
Dennis, Felix
187
dependency
189
Derwent, Lord
170
deserting fathers
167–9
Devine, Alexander
20–1
Dewar, Dora
81
Dick Barton
(radio crime series)
163–4
