Sixty-Five Years of British Childhood
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Author_Philip Graham
British history
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child development
education policy
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forthcoming
history of childhood
history of education
social care
social history
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- ISBN 9781350573734
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book gives a comprehensive account of sixty-five years of British childhood from 1959-2024, a period of immense social, cultural, and political change. The chapters survey the significant changes in education, physical and mental health, social care, lifestyle, the role of the family, child protection, Immigration, disability and class, and the covid-19 pandemic. These include the move from grammar to comprehensive schools, child mental health crises, the internet, mobile phones and social media, and the changing adult attitudes toward childhood and adolescence. The book shows us how and why the lives of children have come about today, and considers the great variation in children’s lives depending on family income and ethnicity, and looks at the need for cooperation between services. Graham argues that, in general, there has been an improvement in the richness and quality of children’s lives but there are many who are falling behind. The voices of contemporary children and their carers/parents are interwoven throughout the book.
Philip Graham is Emeritus Professor of Child Psychiatry at University College London, UK. He has acted as Dean of the Institute of Child Health, London, a consultant to the World Health Organisation Child Mental Health Programme, Chair of the National Children's Bureau and President of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
