{"product_id":"pasts-at-play-childhood-encounters-with-history-in-british-culture-1750-1914-9781526171825","title":"Pasts at Play: Childhood Encounters with History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children’s Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children’s culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003ci\u003ePasts at play\u003c\/i\u003e makes a valuable contribution to scholarship on informal learning, revealing how much more we understand about the history of education when we look beyond the school gates.’ \u003cbr\u003eSiân Pooley, \u003ci\u003eVictorian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: pasts at play – Rachel Bryant Davies and Barbara Gribling\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Biblical and archaeological pasts\u003cbr\u003e1 Noah’s Ark-aeology and nineteenth-century children – Melanie Keene\u003cbr\u003e2 Bringing Egypt home: children’s encounters with ancient Egypt in the long nineteenth century – Virginia Zimmerman\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Classical pasts\u003cbr\u003e3 Didactic heroes: masculinity, sexuality and exploration in the Argonaut story of Kingsley’s \u003ci\u003eThe Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e – Helen Lovatt\u003cbr\u003e4 ‘Fun from the Classics’: puzzling antiquity in \u003ci\u003eThe Boy’s Own Paper\u003c\/i\u003e – Rachel Bryant Davies\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Medieval and early modern pasts\u003cbr\u003e5 Youthful consumption and conservative visions: Robin Hood and Wat Tyler in late Victorian penny periodicals – Stephen Basdeo\u003cbr\u003e6 A tale of two ladies? Stuart women as role models for Victorian and Edwardian girls and young women – Rosemary Mitchell\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Revived pasts\u003cbr\u003e7 Tarry-at-home antiquarians: children’s ‘tour books’ 1740–1840 – M. O. Grenby\u003cbr\u003e8 Playing with the past: child consumers, pedagogy and British history games, c. 1780–1850 – Barbara Gribling\u003cbr\u003e9 Re-enacting local history in the Stepney Children’s Pageant, 1909 – Ellie Reid\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A: A list of 'tour books' – M. O. Grenby\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B: A list of British history-themed toys and games – Barbara Gribling\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041038926167,"sku":"9781526171825","price":23.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526171825.jpg?v=1750948705","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pasts-at-play-childhood-encounters-with-history-in-british-culture-1750-1914-9781526171825","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}