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Growing Up Poor – Anna Davin’s prize-winning social history of working-class childhood in London between 1870 and 1914, looking at home, school and street. Published by Rivers Oram Press, London, in 1996, and winner of the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award Special Prize. A paperback in very good condition with light shelf wear.
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Growing Up Poor – Home, School and Street in London 1870-1914 by Anna Davin was first published in 1996 by Rivers Oram Press of London, with a US edition by Paul and Company. It won the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award Special Prize.
Davin examines what it meant to be a poor child in London in the decades after the Education Act of 1870 brought compulsory schooling. Her study moves between the three worlds of the working-class child: the crowded home with its family duties and domestic work, the Board school with its new demands and discipline, and the street with its play, work and freedom.
Anna Davin was a founding editor of History Workshop Journal and a leading figure in the history of women and childhood, and Growing Up Poor is widely regarded as a landmark in the social history of Victorian and Edwardian London.
Condition – Very Good
Paperback with light shelf wear to the covers and corners. The text block is clean, the spine is sound and the binding is firm.
