The Invention of Childhood

I'm about to share a terrific thing with you and I honestly cannot take any credit for this whatsoever.

In 2006 the former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo, who is probably best known for writing War Horse, presented a series on Radio 4 called The Invention of Childhood. It's a brilliant series covering 1000 years of history; from the Norman conquest to the 20th Century, but focusing on what it meant to be a child at various key historical points.

I'm not sure if the content is relevant to anything you may be working on at the moment, but if you need 20 minutes break from dissertation writing you could do much worse than have a listen.

You can find the original Radio 4 webpage, complete with some nice links to the OU, here.

If you want to listen to the series it begins here.

And finally, a big thank you to Leona for telling me it was being broadcast again.