Worlds of power & impossibility — taking children’s history seriously

Australian Academy of the Humanities 2025-09-14

Summary:

Wattle fairies, talking magpies, excursions to the South Pole, unbreakable dolls, flesh-eating monsters, toddler kings, and underground playgrounds. Is there anywhere the childhood imagination cannot take us? It is, and has always been, a seemingly infinite world of power and impossibility. Ella McFadyen knew this better than most when she began editing the Sydney Mail’s […]

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https://humanities.org.au/power-of-the-humanities/history-of-childhood-taking-historys-seriously/

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Authors:

Abra Pressler

Date tagged:

09/14/2025, 20:41

Date published:

09/11/2025, 22:15