HUGH CUNNINGHAM

Emeritus Professor of Social History

University of Kent

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Career:
After three years as a lecturer in history at Fourah Bay
College, The University College of Sierra Leone, in the mid-
sixties, I started at the University of Kent in 1969, retiring in
2002.

Publications on the History of Childhood:

a. Books:

The Children of the Poor: Representations of

Childhood since the Seventeenth Century
(Blackwell, 1991), pp. 283.

Children and Childhood in Western Society since

1500 (Longman, 1995, 2nd revised edition, 2005),
pp. 238.

The Invention of Childhood (BBC Books, 2006), pp.

302.

Grace Darling: Victorian Heroine (Hambledon

Continuum, 2007), pp. 203. (Contains material
showing how Grace was marketed for children)

b. Edited Book:

With Pier Paolo Viazzo, Child Labour in Historical

Perspective 1800-1985: Case Studies from
Europe, Japan and Colombia (UNICEF, Florence,
1996), pp. 105.

c. Contributions to Books:
 'Disciplinary Approaches to Images of Childhood:
History', in C.Philip Hwang, Michael E.Lamb and
Irving E.Sigel (eds), Images of Childhood
(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New
Jersey, 1996), pp. 27-35.

‘The rights of the child and the wrongs of child

labour: an historical perspective’, in Kristoffel
Lieten and Ben White (eds), Child Labour: Policy
Options (Aksant, 2001), pp. 13-26.

‘Children’s changing lives from 1800 to 2000’, in

Janet Maybin and Martin Woodhead (eds),
Childhoods in Context (The Open University,
2003), pp. 81-128.

‘Work and Poverty’, in Paula Fass (ed.),

Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History
and Society, 3 vols (Macmillan Reference USA,
2004), Vol. 3, pp. 892-9.

With Shelton Stromquist, ‘Child labor and the

rights of children: historical patterns of decline
and persistence’, in Burns H. Weston (ed), Child
Labor and Human Rights (Lynne Rienner, Boulder
and London, 2005), pp. 55-83.

‘Childhood and happiness in Britain’, in Rosie

Findlay and Sébastien Salbayre (eds), Stories for
Children, Histories of Childhood, 2 vols (Presses
Universitaires Francois Rabelais, Tours, 2007), I,
pp. 19-30.

d. Articles:

'The Employment and Unemployment of Children

in England c.1680-1851', Past and Present, No.126
(February 1990), pp.115-50.

'The Rights of the Child from the Mid-Eighteenth to

the Early Twentieth Century', Aspects of
Education, No. 50 (1994), pp. 2-16.

‘The decline of child labour: labour markets and

family economies in Europe and North America
since 1830’, Economic History Review, Vol. LIII
(2000), pp. 409-28.
 ‘Pourquoi les jeunes anglais quittent-ils si tôt leurs
parents’, Revue de ‘LOFCE, No 72 (2000), pp. 207-
15.

‘How many children were “unemployed” in

eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England?’,
Past & Present, No. 187 (May 2005), pp. 203-15.

‘”The Children” and “the Other Children”: Dualism

in the Social Construction of Childhood’,
Newsletter of the Society for the History of
Childhood and Youth, No. 10 (Summer 2007)

e. Review Articles:

'Child Labour', Labour History Review, Vol. 56

(Winter 1991), pp.48-51.

‘Histories of Childhood’, American Historical

Review, Vol. 103 October 1998), pp. 1195-1208.

‘Childhood Histories’, Journal of Victorian Culture,

Vol. 9 (Spring 2004), pp. 90-6.