History A-Level
Changing ideas of childhood
What Changing ideas of childhood means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Industrial society, religion and culture reshaped ideas of innocence and duty, making childhood a public concern.
Topics that use Changing ideas of childhood
- Paper 3, Option 34.1: Industrialisation and social change in Britain, 1759–1928: forging a new society - 2 The world of childhood (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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