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Child Education Magazine
These rich illustrations by Linda Birch and Monique Partridge come from one of the Museum’s most recent acquisitions. In May we were given seventy-five editions of Child Education Magazines from 1950...
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Never Absent, Never Late
School Attendance Medals in the Museum of Childhood The British state first became seriously involved in the schooling of its citizens in 1870. A series of inquiries and investigations over the...
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An Irish-Cockney Village in the East End
Ellen Delay’s attendance medal, 1900. B.14-1995 This medal was awarded to Ellen Delay, a pupil at St Patrick’s School, Wapping in 1900. It’s a bit different from the medals awarded by the School Board...
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Prizes, Punishments and Pupil Teachers
Attendance Medal, Misc. 1169-1991 This medal was won – or earned – by Lionel Lehman in 1903. It is not a School Board medal, but, like Denis Delay’s medal, comes from a religious institution, the...
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Star-gazing girls of Georgian England
A while ago I came across this Solar System sampler in the Museum’s textiles store. It was uncanny – the arrangement of concentric rings was so familiar and immediately recognisable, but so strange...
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Plum Jam and Slapstick
Lionel Hemsley’s school days It is hard work finding evidence for the thoughts and feelings of children in the past. Letters and diaries are rare and often don’t survive. However, this year I was...
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