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Dec 9, 2020

What is “childhood”? When was it invented? The same time as candy canes? 

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Sources:

The Imperfect Child 

Child labor and the division of labor in the early English cotton mills 

Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England 

‘A Prospect of Flowers’: Concepts of Childhood and Female Youth in Seventeenth-Century British Culture 

Time 

New York Times 

Snopes 

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