Abstract
Since the publication in I962 of Ariès' Centuries of childhood, the history of childhood has undergone enormous change. The child and childhood are seen less often as stages of physiological development and more as defined by the perceptions of the adult world as methodological and theoretical shifts have resulted in the dominance of constructionist over essentialist interpretations. It is impossible to identify ‘the child’ or ‘childhood’ in any given moment; instead, we find a range of experiences and a multiplicity of childhoods depending on which children we are looking at, in what settings and at what time in history. Consequently, the history of childhood offers enormous potential for local research to explore the range of experiences and environments in which the child operated and engaged with the adult world as well as the consequences of this for notions of childhood.
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