Nurture and Neglect: Childhood in Sixteenth-Century Northern England - Dolan, Loretta (University of Western Australia)

Using ecclesiastical and secular legal records to form its basis, hitherto an untapped resource for children's voices, Nurture and Neglect tackles a number of anomalies in the existing historiography surrounding the experience of children in urban and rural communities in sixteenth-century northern England. It addresses the adult-centred