Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World

Chapter 1 Introduction: The World in Miniature

Chapter 2 A Motherly Concern for Children: Invocations of Queen Victoria in Imperial Child Rescue Literature

Chapter 3 Ayah , Caregiver to Anglo-Indian Children, c. 1750–1947

Chapter 4 Babies of the Empire: Science, Nation and Truby King’s Mothercraft in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa

Chapter 5 ‘He is hardened to the climate & a little bleached by it’s [sic] influence’: Imperial Childhoods in Scotland and Madras, c. 1800–1830

Chapter 6 ‘Dear Mummy and Daddy’: Reading Wartime Letters from British Children Evacuated to Canada During the Second World War

Chapter 7 East African Students in a (Post-)Imperial World

Chapter 8 Resistance and Race: Aboriginal Child Workers in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Australia

Chapter 9 Health, Race and Family in Colonial Bengal

Chapter 10 Race, Indigeneity and the Baden-Powell Girl Guides: Age, Gender and the British World, 1908–1920

Chapter 11 Transforming Narratives of Colonial Danger: Imagining the Environments of New Zealand and Australia in Children’s Literature, 1862–1899

Chapter 12 The ‘Willful’ Girl in the Anglo-World: Sentimental Heroines and Wild Colonial Girls, 1872–1923

Chapter 13 Boys and Homosex: Danger and Possibility in Queensland, 1890–1914

Chapter 14 Leery Sue Goes to the Show: Popular Performance, Sexuality and the Disorderly Girl

Chapter 15 Savage Instincts, Civilizing Spaces: The Child, the Empire and the Public Park, c. 1880–1914

Chapter 16 Memorializing Colonial Childhoods: From the Frontier to the Museum