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Authors: Fran Abrams
Songs of Innocence (40 page)
League of Militant Godless
115–16
Leavenheath, Suffolk
36
Leech, Kenneth
191
Lees, Diana
197
Lennon, John
187
Leopold, King of the Belgians
14
Lewis, Jonathan
177
Little Commonwealth, the
110–11
Little Red School Book, The
184–5
Little White Bird, The
(Barrie)
70
Liverpool 7
173
Liverpool Patriotic Society
56
Llewellyn, Hermione
72–3
,
76
,
87–8
,
92–3
Lloyd George, David
97
local authorities
147
Locke, John
2
London
43
the Blitz
129
East End
74–6
poverty in
57
riots, 2011
250
World War I air raids
84–5
,
85–6
London County Council, child rearing handbook
49
Lord of the Flies
(Golding)
164–5
,
241
loss, fear of
44
Lowestoft
160–1
LSD
183
Lusack, Zita
228–9
Lyme Regis
111
McCormack, Thomas
10
Mackay of Clashfern, Lord
225
Macpherson, Annie
106
Mail on Sunday
228–9
Major, John
233–4
Malthusian League
97
Malyon, George
32
Manchester
cinema attendance
64
girl gangs
22
infant mortality rate
36
Scuttlers
19–22
Manchester Grammar School
154–5
Manchester School Board
24
Manchester Teachers’ Association
173–4
marriage
211
marriage breakups
167–9
,
223
,
251
Marxism Today
207
Masefield, John
52–3
Masham of Ilton, Baroness
211–12
Mason, Doreen
199
Mass Observation organization
119
,
156
report of 1940
127–8
Massacre of the Innocents, The
(Rose)
34–5
Melly, George
187
Melton Mowbray
105
mental illness
179–81
Middle Earth Club
183
migrant workers
206
migration
60
milk, pasteurized
60–1
millennium, the
236
miners strikes
207
Miss Pears competition
229
mistakes, freedom to make
213–14
Monckton, Sir Walter
144
,
145
,
146
Montessori, Maria
110
Moorhouse, Rose
84–5
moral perfection
105
Moral Rearmament
212
Morris, Reverend Marcus
157
Mortimer, John
187
Moss, Tyler
248–9
mothers and motherhood
cult of
49
Edwardian
51–3
evacuee
126
feminizing of childhood
53
post-war
149–50
war work
129–30
motivation
253
Mrs Blossom on Babies
(Hodgson)
60
muscular Christianity
27
Nabarro, Sir Gerald
184
Natal
, HMS
82–3
National Child Development Study
172
National Council for Civil Liberties
184
,
186
National Health Service
127
,
140
National Minority Movement
117
national service
159
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
12–14
National Union of Teachers
23
,
157
nature
children’s closeness to
240–1
naval cadets
82–3
Neill, Alexander Sutherland
111
,
114–15
,
185
,
246
Nesbit, E.
44
Neville, Richard
187
New Labour
233
New York Babies’ Hospital
61
New York City Department of Charities
10
New York, Hell’s Kitchen
10–11
New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
11
New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
11
Newbold Infants’ School riot
181
Newport Corporation
146
Newquay
90–1
News Chronicle
150
newspapers, growth of
19
Nijinsky
70
noble savages
45
Notting Hill race riots, 1958
161
NSPCC.
see
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
nurseries
129–30
Obscene Publications Squad
184
,
187
Observer
, the
170–1
,
173
,
174–5
,
177
,
223
,
229
On the Origin of Species
(Darwin)
98
O’Neill, Terry
144–5
Opie, Peter and Iona
178
opinions, children not allowed to express
95
opportunity, lack of
248–51
oppression
187–8
optimism
3
lack of
250
loss of post-war
164–5
Order of the Child
117
Orkney
218–19
orphans
33
Oswin, Maureen
178–9
Overseas Settlement Board
106
,
109
Oz
(magazine)
186–7
obscenity trial
187
paedophiles
216
Page, Leo
162
Pakefield, Suffolk
132–3
Pall Mall Gazette
14–15
parent–child relations, over-enthusiastic
210
parents, parenting and parenthood
American style
177
as choice
209
failure to bond with
238
fear of failure
236
financial reality of
247–8
guilt
245
lifestyle choice
225
power relations
242–3
worst mistake
52
Parliamentary Family and Child Protection Group
212
part-time work
182
Payne, Sarah
237
Peaky Blinders
19
Pease, Joseph
81
Pengelly, Rose
81–2
penny dinners
60
penny dreadful literature
21–2
Pepler, Hilary
49
Peter Pan
44
Peter Pan
(Barrie)
5
Peterborough
80
Phillips, Jonathan
182
Phillips, Melanie
223
physique and physical fitness decline in
56–61
and inequality
172
Piaget, Jean
174
Pithers, David
223
play centres
43
playground games
178
Plowden Report
174–5
politicization
206–7
Poor Law Reform Act 1834, Bastardy Clause
36
poor laws
13
Popham, Peter
167–8
,
183
,
186
,
187
population growth
151
Postman, Neil
207–8
post-war austerity
151
Potter, Beatrix
45
poverty
4
,
15
,
24
,
34
,
56–8
,
74–6
,
127
,
234
Practical Motherhood
(Campbell)
51
pre-school education
233–4
pressure
on children
227
effects of
230–8
Prevention of Cruelty to, and Protection of, Children Act 1889
9–15
progress
4
prosperity
182
psychoanalysis
103
psychograms
100
public health
decline in
56–61
reforms
139
public schools
27–8
Pumphrey, George
157
punishment
104
racial degradation
99
radical ideas, exposure to
114–17
,
184–5
radicalism, child, emergence of
181–90
radicalization, of children
114–17
Ragged Schools
25
Railway Children, The
(Nesbit)
44
Rangitata
, SS
136
Ransome, Arthur
96
Rayner, Claire
177
Reachout
219
Reade, Pauline
191
Rebel Without a Cause
(film)
161
Reflex Relaxation and Anal Dilation
216–18
Renaissance of Motherhood, The
(Key)
52
Renvoize, Jean
215–16
retrenchment
253
risk assessment
224–5
Robinson, Stella
184
Rose, Lionel
34–5
Rosemary’s Baby
(film)
220
Rosenior, Juanita
229
Royal Navy, cadets
82–3
Rugby school
27
runaways
214
Russell, Bertrand
98
Russell, Countess Dora
114
Rye, Maria
106
safety
202
St. John’s Church, Wortley, Leeds, fire tragedy
30–2
St. Pancras School for Mothers
60
Salisbury, Bishop of
189–90
Saltoun, Lord
183
Sanderson, Emily
32–3
Satanic children, films featuring
220
