Songs of Innocence (40 page)

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Authors: Fran Abrams

League of Militant Godless
115–16

Leavenheath, Suffolk
36

Leech, Kenneth
191

Lees, Diana
197

leisure
62–5
,
163
,
178

Lennon, John
187

Leopold, King of the Belgians
14

Lewis, Jonathan
177

lice
124
,
130

life expectancy
60
,
251

Little Commonwealth, the
110–11

Little Red School Book, The
184–5

Little White Bird, The
(Barrie)
70

Liverpool 7
173

Liverpool Patriotic Society
56

Llewellyn, Hermione
72–3
,
76
,
87–8
,
92–3

Lloyd George, David
97

local authorities
147

Locke, John
2

London
43

the Blitz
129

East End
74–6

poverty in
57

riots, 2011
250

World War I air raids
84–5
,
85–6

London County Council, child rearing handbook
49

Lord of the Flies
(Golding)
164–5
,
241

loss, fear of
44

Lowestoft
160–1

LSD
183

Lusack, Zita
228–9

Lyme Regis
111

 

McCormack, Thomas
10

Mackay of Clashfern, Lord
225

Macpherson, Annie
106

Mail on Sunday
228–9

Major, John
233–4

Malthusian League
97

Malyon, George
32

Man, Morrice
17–18
,
27–8

Manchester

cinema attendance
64

girl gangs
22

Hulme
77
,
87

infant mortality rate
36

Scuttlers
19–22

Manchester Grammar School
154–5

Manchester Guardian
46
,
121

Manchester School Board
24

Manchester Teachers’ Association
173–4

marriage
211

marriage breakups
167–9
,
223
,
251

Marxism Today
207

Masefield, John
52–3

Masham of Ilton, Baroness
211–12

Mason, Doreen
199

Mass Observation organization
119
,
156

report of 1940
127–8

Massacre of the Innocents, The
(Rose)
34–5

Mauger, Peter
157
,
158

meals
123
,
125

Melly, George
187

Melton Mowbray
105

mental illness
179–81

mental testing
99–100
,
103

MI5
113–16
,
130–1

Middle Earth Club
183

middle-classes
18
,
59

migrant workers
206

migration
60

milk, pasteurized
60–1

millennium, the
236

miners strikes
207

Miss Pears competition
229

mistakes, freedom to make
213–14

mobile phones
229
,
240

Monckton, Sir Walter
144
,
145
,
146

Montessori, Maria
110

Montgomery, Heather
205
,
206–7

Moorhouse, Rose
84–5

Moors murders
190–1
,
193

moral decline
58
,
225

moral perfection
105

Moral Rearmament
212

Morris, Reverend Marcus
157

Mortimer, John
187

Moss, Tyler
248–9

mothers and motherhood

cult of
49

Edwardian
51–3

evacuee
126

feminizing of childhood
53

post-war
149–50

role of
51–2
,
94

war work
129–30

motivation
253

Mrs Blossom on Babies
(Hodgson)
60

muscular Christianity
27

myths
7
,
240–2
,
246

 

Nabarro, Sir Gerald
184

nannies
48–9
,
69

Natal
, HMS
82–3

National Child Development Study
172

National Council for Civil Liberties
184
,
186

National Health Service
127
,
140

National Minority Movement
117

national prosperity
151
,
242

national service
159

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
12–14

National Union of Teachers
23
,
157

nature

children’s closeness to
240–1

and nurture
99
,
101–3

naval cadets
82–3

Neill, Alexander Sutherland
111
,
114–15
,
185
,
246

Nesbit, E.
44

Neville, Richard
187

New Labour
233

New York Babies’ Hospital
61

New York City Department of Charities
10

New York, Hell’s Kitchen
10–11

New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
11

New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
11

New Zealand
106
,
135
,
136–7

Newbold Infants’ School riot
181

Newport Corporation
146

Newquay
90–1

News Chronicle
150

newspapers, growth of
19

Nijinsky
70

noble savages
45

Nordau, Max
55–6
,
71

Notting Hill race riots, 1958
161

NSPCC.
see
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)

nurseries
129–30

nurture, and nature
99
,
101–3

 

obesity
152
,
235

Obscene Publications Squad
184
,
187

Observer
, the
170–1
,
173
,
174–5
,
177
,
223
,
229

Oman, Elsie
63
,
72
,
73–4
,
86

Omen, The
(film)
220
,
241

On the Origin of Species
(Darwin)
98

O’Neill, Dennis
144–7
,
194
,
197

O’Neill, Terry
144–5

Opie, Peter and Iona
178

opinions, children not allowed to express
95

opportunity, lack of
248–51

oppression
187–8

optimism
3

lack of
250

loss of post-war
164–5

Order of the Child
117

original sin
1
,
42
,
105
,
241

Orkney
218–19

orphans
33

Oswin, Maureen
178–9

over-protectiveness
237
,
239–40

Overseas Settlement Board
106
,
109

Oz
(magazine)
186–7

obscenity trial
187

 

paedophiles
216

Page, Leo
162

Pakefield, Suffolk
132–3

Pall Mall Gazette
14–15

Pankhurst, Emmeline
5
,
28

Pankhurst, Sylvia
74–6
,
81–2

parent–child relations, over-enthusiastic
210

parents, parenting and parenthood

ambitious
228–9
,
230

American style
177

as choice
209

failure to bond with
238

fear of failure
236

fears about children
223–5
,
228

financial reality of
247–8

guilt
245

investment in children
245
,
254

lifestyle choice
225

power relations
242–3

relationships with
50–2
,
65

single
211
,
251

worst mistake
52

parents rights
213
,
215

Parliamentary Family and Child Protection Group
212

part-time work
182

Payne, Sarah
237

Peaky Blinders
19

Pease, Joseph
81

Pengelly, Rose
81–2

penny dinners
60

penny dreadful literature
21–2

Pepler, Hilary
49

Peter Pan
44

Peter Pan
(Barrie)
5

Peterborough
80

Phillips, Jonathan
182

Phillips, Melanie
223

physique and physical fitness decline in
56–61

improvement in
78
,
95

and inequality
172

Piaget, Jean
174

Pithers, David
223

play
42–3
,
178

play centres
43

playground games
178

Plowden Report
174–5

pocket money
151–2
,
202
,
245

politicization
206–7

Poor Law Reform Act 1834, Bastardy Clause
36

poor laws
13

Popham, Peter
167–8
,
183
,
186
,
187

population growth
151

Porter, Jim
135–7
,
137
,
141

Porter, Joyce
136–7
,
141

Postman, Neil
207–8

post-war austerity
151

Potter, Beatrix
45

poverty
4
,
15
,
24
,
34
,
56–8
,
74–6
,
127
,
234

Practical Motherhood
(Campbell)
51

pre-school education
233–4

pressure

on children
227

effects of
230–8

Prevention of Cruelty to, and Protection of, Children Act 1889
9–15

progress
4

prosperity
182

prostitution
14–15
,
212

psychoanalysis
103

psychograms
100

psychology
94
,
95
,
100

public health

decline in
56–61

reforms
139

public schools
27–8

Pumphrey, George
157

punishment
104

purity
2
,
58

 

racial degradation
99

radical ideas, exposure to
114–17
,
184–5

radicalism, child, emergence of
181–90

radicalization, of children
114–17

Ragged Schools
25

Railway Children, The
(Nesbit)
44

Rangitata
, SS
136

Ransome, Arthur
96

rationing
74
,
75–6
,
151–2

Rayner, Claire
177

Reachout
219

Reade, Pauline
191

Rebel Without a Cause
(film)
161

Reflex Relaxation and Anal Dilation
216–18

Renaissance of Motherhood, The
(Key)
52

Renvoize, Jean
215–16

retrenchment
253

Rhyl
171–2
,
175
,
180

riots, 2011
250
,
251
,
253

risk assessment
224–5

Robinson, Stella
184

Rochdale
181
,
218–19

Rose, Lionel
34–5

Rosemary’s Baby
(film)
220

Rosenior, Juanita
229

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
2
,
42

Rowntree, Joseph
4
,
6

Rowntree, Seebohm
24
,
34
,
57–8

Royal Navy, cadets
82–3

Rugby school
27

runaways
214

rural life
42
,
43
,
53
,
58
,
96
,
146

Russell, Bertrand
98

Russell, Countess Dora
114

Rye, Maria
106

 

safety
202

St. John’s Church, Wortley, Leeds, fire tragedy
30–2

St. Pancras School for Mothers
60

Salford
63
,
250

Salisbury, Bishop of
189–90

Saltoun, Lord
183

Sanderson, Emily
32–3

Satanic children, films featuring
220

Satanism and satanic abuse
131
,
219

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