Little Black Sambo is Published
October 31st, 1899
Nicholas Tucker
Babies: Boon or Burden?
Did past ages look upon babies and their needs with less than starry eyes? Nicholas Tucker sifts the evidence from the cradle in history.
Swiss Cottage, Osborne House
Nicholas Tucker peeps into royal Victorian childhood on the Isle of Wight.
All Cleanly Wrapped
The case against swaddling developed by Rousseau, Locke and various others of that time concentrated entirely on its bad effects on the infants' physique.
Songs of Innocence
In 1972 Albert Paul, a retired Brighton carpenter, produced a charming account of his childhood years for a local history society entitled Poverty, hardship but happiness; those were the days, 1903-17.
Lullabies
Listening to the words of lullabies mothers have sung to their babies over the centuries can give the historian an insight into the constancy - and expression - of maternal feelings.