The Victorian Country ChildRoundwood Press, 1974 - 244 من الصفحات 'A totally fascinating account of Victorian country life' -- The Good Book Guide This book describes the varied aspects of country life in the last century from a child's point of view. The author discusses all aspects of their day-to-day experiences, including living conditions, food, school life, work on the land, agricultural policies and how they affected children, local and cottage industries, the Church and its influence, and crime and punishment. |
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Plate Opposite page I Drawing water at Exhall Warwickshire | 16 |
East Adderbury Infants School Oxfordshire | 16 |
Children from Fobbing Church School Essex | 32 |
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5-9 inclusive agricultural labourers apprentice areas Austrey baby Banbury Bedfordshire Bere Regis Berkshire Blaxhall Bodleian Library boys bread Buckinghamshire Census Church clothes cottage Cottisford country children County Record Office Cublington Deddington Devon district early employed entry examination example farm servants farmers Flora Thompson girls Hampshire hard labour harvest Herefordshire holiday Huntingdonshire Ilmington inspection Inspector Ivinghoe Juniper Hill juvenile lace schools lacemaking lads Langley Burrell later Launton least Lincolnshire living master ment milk mistress Mixbury months morning mother Nevertheless nineteenth century Norfolk Northamptonshire noted offenders Oxford Oxfordshire parents parish perhaps Petty Sessions Pitstone plait schools poor law potatoes prison pupils reading remembered reported round rural school attendance school board school log book shire Souldern Standard straw plaiting Suffolk Sunday school teachers usually vaccination Victorian period village visited Warwickshire week Weston-on-Avon Wiltshire winter workers young youngsters