Urban Childhoods: Context, Culture, Images

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“Institutions are the sites of childhood stories,
yet the lives experienced in them are essentially anonymous”

This research guide is designed to a give a working introduction in how to research ‘childhood in the city’.

• How are Birmingham’s histories of diversity, education, immigration and labour, connected?
• Which sorts of materials give us insight into the conditions of urban childhood?
• How have children been represented in cities?
• What are ‘their’ stories? What questions can we ask to understand more?

Further links and research:

Connecting Histories - How to Research Black History: A Childhood Case Study

Urban Childhoods
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