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12. Ibid.
13. Interviews with the author.
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Index
abortion 210
Abortion Act 212
Abrams, Mark 163
accidental death, danger of 32–3
achievement, need for dedication 228–9
Adams, John 32
added value, extracting 228–9
Adey, Eileen 130
adoptions 38
adult world, mixed up with children’s world 233–4
adults, suspicion of 237
advertising 227
affluence, diseases of 152, 225–6
Airlie, Lord 138
Aldermaston march, second 159
alehouses, fetching of beer from 24
Alexander, Catharine 95
alienation 206–7, 250
Alington, Lord 67–8, 121
Allitt, Beverley 224
alternative magazines 186
Altmark incident 134
Amalgamated Press 63
American style parenting 177–8
Americana, golden age of 156, 158–9
anarchism 56
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett 28
Anderson, Jim 187
Anderson Committee 121
Approved Schools 164
Arab–Israeli war, 1948 156, 159
Archives of Paediatrics 52
Armitage, Robert 24
Arnold, Thomas 27, 28
Arthur, C. J. 84
Arts and Crafts movement 42, 58
Association of County Councils 216
Association of University Teachers 29
attachment, Bowlby’s theory of 150
Austen, Jane 37
Australia 135
child migration to 106–9
autism 179–81
Auty, Eli 33
baby boom generation, myth of 151
baby-farming 36–8
Baden-Powell, Agnes 80
Baden-Powell, Robert 55–6, 58, 61–2, 78, 79–80
Baden-Powell League of Health and Manliness 61
Bainbridge, Beryl 222
Ballet Shoes (Streatfeild) 204
Barnardo, Thomas 106
Barrie, J. M. 5, 8, 44, 70
battered child syndrome 198
Battersea Boys 19
Baxter, Richard 223
BBC 163–4
Beckford, Jasmine 198
Bell, Mary 192–4, 220, 221
Bell, Norma 192–3
Bembridge grammar school 134
benefits, welfare 242
Bennett, Keith 191
Beveridge Report 138–40
Bevin,
Ernest 129–30
Bewes, Wyndham 114–15
Bill Haley and the Comets 161
biological determinism 93, 98–9, 174
Bird, Michael 123–4, 128
Birkenhead, HMS 122
Birmingham 19
birth control movement 95, 97–8
birth rate
decline in 58–9, 139, 151, 245
late-Victorian 38–9
post-war 151
Bishop, Florence 239–40, 252
Blackboard Jungle (film) 161
Blair, Tony 222
Blake, William 3, 8, 240
Blitz, the 129
Blue Lagoon, The (de Vere Stacpoole) 45
Blue Lamp, The (film) 163
boarding out 10
boarding school 18, 92–3
Boer War 41, 55, 56
Bondfield, Margaret 109, 127
boredom 253
Bournemouth University 224
Bowlby, John 150, 162
boy combatants, World War I 82–4
Boy Scouts
11th CK Troop 79
foundation 61–2
membership 78
origins 55–6
Scouts Defence Corps 79–80
World War I casualties 79, 83
World War I service 77–80, 85
boys, leisure 62
Boys’ Brigade 61–2
Brady, Ian 190–1
Brameld, William 33–4
bread 56–7
breast-feeding 48, 60, 150
Briddock, Alan 152–4, 172–3
British Communist Party 158
British Hygiene Council 98
British Paediatric Association 181
British Trust for Ornithology 112
British Union of Fascists 117–18
Brookes, George 33
Brown, Dorothy 130
Brown, Edward Vipont 48
Brown, Flo 107–8
Brown, Gwynneth 107, 108
Brown, Martin 192–3, 220
Buckmaster, Viscount 210
Bulger, James, murder of 3, 220–3, 225, 233
Burgess, George 194
Burt, Cyril 98, 99–105, 110
Bury and Norwich Post 32, 36
Butler, Josephine 14–15
Butler, ‘Rab’ 140–1
Cable Street, Battle of 117–18
Campbell, Helen 51
Campbell, Janet 29
Camps, Francis 198