Songs of Innocence (41 page)

Save the Children
235

School Board system
22–3

school meals, free
140

school strikes, 1911
66

schools

attendance figures
26

comprehensive
175–6

curriculum
26

European refugee presence
130–1

evacuees and
124

girls
28–9

grammar
100
,
153–5
,
172–3
,
175

progressive
109–17
,
118
,
130–2

reform
140–1

secondary modern
155

segregation
205

Scotsman
227–8

Scouting for Boys
(Baden-Powell)
62

Scuttlers
19–22

Seduction of the Innocent, The
158

Seebohm Report
195

self-belief
253

self-worth
254

sentimentality, breakdown in
208–9

Sereny, Gita
193–4
,
214
,
223

sex

Edwardian double standards
69–71

fear of
210

promiscuity
210–13

sex, choosing child’s
225

sex education
98
,
183
,
185

sex outside marriage, inter-war years advice on
98

sexual abuse
15
,
215–19

sexual degeneracy
69–71

Shaftesbury, Lord
13
,
25–6

Sheffield
152–4

single parents
211
,
251

Skinner, Atkinson
26
,
33

slum clearance
59
,
152

smallpox
61

Smith, Cyril
181

Smith, David and Maureen
190–1

Smith, Emma (nee Hallsmith)
90–1

Smith, Samuel
21–2

smoking
56

Smyth, Norah
75

social attitudes, changes in
177–8

social cohesion, breakdown in
225

social evils
4
,
6

Social Medical Research Unit
163

social problems
245

social reform
127

social work departments
195

Socialism
56

Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress
97

Some Thoughts Concerning Education
(Locke)
2

Sommerville, John
208
,
239
,
248

soul
1–2

South Africa
135

Sowerbutts, Edith
57

Spanish Civil War
105
,
118

spare time
41
,
163

special educational needs
238

special schools
100

Spectator
104

Spencer, Anne
177

Spock, Benjamin
246

spontaneous self-development
110

Stallings, Tricia
209

state, the

first intervention in parent child relations
9–15

intervention 1990s
233–4

powers
146–7

role
6
,
147
,
243–4

Stead, W. T.
14–15

Stephens, Mrs Frank
50

Sterilization Bill 1931
97

Stockport
194

Stopes, Marie
95
,
97–8

Streatfeild, Noel
204

Street Arabs
23–5

Study of a Child
(Hogan)
51

subservience
189

suffrage movement
28
,
52

sugar, de-rationing of
151–2

sunbathing
95

Sunday Times
213
,
219

Sure Start programme
234

Sutton Coldfield
64

Swallows and Amazons
(Ransome)
96

sweets
151–2

Switzerland
94

teachers
175–6

Teachers Labour League
117

technology, fear of obsession with
236

Teddy Boys
160–1

teenage pregnancy
183–4
,
210

teenage sex, inter-war years
114–15

television
7
,
208

thalidomide
179

Thatcher, Margaret
207
,
214

theatre
64–5

Thomas, Peter
112–13
,
118

Thompson, Jon
220–3

threat perception
219–20

Time and Tide
magazine
140

The Times
12
,
13
,
23
,
43
,
53
,
64
,
66
,
147–8
,
154–5
,
161
,
162
,
164
,
172
,
182
,
186
,
191

Times Literary Supplement
70

Tobin, Daniel
12–13

Tobin, John
12

Tom Brown’s Schooldays
(Hughes)
27

Tottenham
252

Toxic Childhood
237–8

Toynbee, Polly
213–14

Truby King, Sir Frederick
95
,
96
,
99

Tweedie, Jill
176

typhoid
33

Ufizzi gallery, Florence
238

Uncle, A. F
73

unemployment
56
,
206
,
247–8
,
251
,
252
,
253–4

Unicef, child wellbeing report
231

United Nations
189

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
6
,
214–15
,
234

United States of America
106
,
133
,
151
,
177
,
219
,
231
,
234

university
233
,
249

unmarried mothers
36–7
,
38
,
76

urbanization
58
,
69

urchins
57

vaccinations
61

Venables, Robert
220–3

venereal disease
98

vices, adult
233

Victoria Cross awards
83

video games
7

video nasties
221

Vietnam War
159

Volendam
, SS
136

völkisch
movement
58

vulnerability
241–2

war work

World War I
77–82

World War II
123–4
,
129–30

Ward, C.
85

Ward, Mrs Humphrey
43

Warner, Jack
163

wasted lives
22

wastrels
97

Water Babies, The
(Kingsley)
25
,
241

Watkin, Harry
77
,
87

Waugh, Benjamin
12–14

Webb, Sidney
59

Webster, Miss
174

Welfare State
146
,
149
,
152
,
170–1

West, Henry
20

West Side Story
162

Westmorland
126

What Fathers Should Tell Their Sons
98

What Mothers Must Tell Their Children
98

Wheeler, Etta Angell
10–11

whipping
11

Whitehouse, Mary
184

Whiteing, Mary
46–7

Whiting, Roy
237

Wilde, Oscar
55–6

Williamson, Sir Hedworth
65

Wilson, Francis
10

Wilson, Harold
175

Wilson, Mary Ellen
10–11
,
199

Wilson, Thomas
10

Winchester, Bishop of
38

Wind in the Willows
(Grahame)
45

Winscombe Women’s Conservative and Unionist Association
115–16

Winton, Nicholas
133

Wintour, Eleanor
177

wives, abandoned
169

women

post-war
149–50

war work
129–30

World War I and
73–4

women and children first
122

Women’s Group on Public Welfare
127

Women’s Institute
124–5
,
126–7

women’s rights
56

Worcester, Bishop
223

Wordsworth, William
240–1

working classes and grammar schools
172–3

late-Victorian times
15–17

youth culture
161

working hours, child
13

World War I
27
,
41

agricultural work
80–1

air raids
84–6
,
122

Battle of Jutland
83

boy combatants
82–4

Boy Scouts activities
77–80
,
85

child casualties
84–5

education during
81

end of
87–8
,
89

Girl Guides activities
80

illegitimate children
76

impact on families
72–6
,
86–8

letters home
73
,
86–7

outbreak
71–2

rationing
74

refugee fund raising
77

shadow of
90

spy scare
79

war work
77–82

women and
73–4

wounded
86

youngest fatality
82

World War II

aftermath
143–4

the Blitz
129

build up to
118

casualties
129
,
136

child refugees
133–4

condition of evacuees
124–6

disease deaths
139

end of
141

European refugee presence
130–4

evacuation overseas
135–7

evacuee repatriations
137
,
141

evacuees
121–9

excitement of
134
,
136

foreign troops
132–3

German surrender
137

GIs
132–3

impact of
120–1

outbreak of
119–21

preparations for peace
137–41

social reform plans
138–41

war work
123–4
,
129–30

Wortley Calamity, the
30–2

writers, degenerate
55–6

Young Communist League
116

Young Comrades League
116

Young Delinquent, The
(Burt)
100–5

Young Pioneers of Great Britain
116

youth culture
19
,
160–1

youth gangs
7

causes of phenomenon
21

emergence of
19

girls
22

late-Victorian
19–25

members backgrounds
24

post-war
160–3

youth market
182

youth unemployment
206
,
247–8
,
251
,
252
,
253–4

youth violence
22–4