Gresham College Lecture: What's Happened to Childhood?

A child’s life was once a horror of hard labour. Over time the experience of childhood has evolved to be both healthier and happier. But that experience is not universal, as evidenced by the deaths of Baby P, James Bulger and Victoria Climbié. Hugh Cunningham, a retired social history professor who once taught at the University of Kent, delivers a talk about childhood, past and present.