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Reading List

  • Calvert, Karin, Children in the House: The Material Culture of Early Childhood, 1600-1900, Boston (USA), Northeastern University Press, 1992

  • Dick, Diana, Yesterday's Babies, London, The Bodley Head, 1987

  • Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan, The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny,London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1972

  • Hardyment, Christina, Dream Babies: Child Care from Locke to Spock, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984

  • Kevill-Davies, Sally, Yesterday's Children: the Antiques & History of Childcare, Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club, 1991, published 1994

  • Miall, Antony and Peter, The Victorian Nursery Book, London, Dent, 1980

  • O'Hara, Georgina, The World of the Baby: a Celebration of Infancy through the Ages, London, Michael Joseph, 1989

  • Weber-Kellermann, Ingeborg, Die Kinderstube, Frankfurt am Main, Insel, 1991

  • Weber-Kellerman, Ingeborg, Die Kindheit, Frankfurt am Main, Insel, 1979

  • White, Colin, The World of the Nursery, London, Herbert Press, 1984

Specific items


  • Delahaye, Marie-Claude,Tétons et Tétines: Histoire de l'Allaitement

  • Fildes, Valerie, Breasts, Bottles and Babies, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1986

  • Gelles, Edward, Nursery Furniture, London,Constable, 1982

  • Hampshire, Jack, Prams Mailcarts and Bassinets, Tunbridge Wells: Midas Books, 1980

  • Haskell, Arnold & Lewis, Main Infantilia: the Archaeology of the Nursery, London, Dobson, 1971

  • Kevill-Davies, Sally, Yesterday's Children: the Antiques and History of Childcare, Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club, 1991, published 1994

  • Schäfer, Ingrid, Klingendes Spielzeug : Kinderrasseln aus aller Welt Duisberg: Puppen und Spielzeug magazine, 1991

  • Sotheby's, Childhood: a Loan Exhibition of Paintings & Works of Art in Aid of the Save the Children Fund, London, Sotheby's, 1988

  • Spaulding, Mary & Welch, Penny, Nurturing Yesterday's Child: a Portrayal of the Drake Collection of Paediatric History, Philadelphia, Decker,1991

  • Sturm-Godramstein, Heinz, Kinderwagen Gestern und Heute, Frankfurt am Main, Heinz Sturm-Godramstein, 1972