History A-Level
Innocence and protection
What Innocence and protection means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Innocence and protection
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Peter Pan celebrated imaginative, protected childhood, while other works presented poor children as objects of pity.
Topics that use Innocence and protection
- 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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