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The experts' views

 
The Capel Family - National Portrait Gallery
The Capel Family - National Portrait Gallery

Meet the presenter

Find out about the man behind the voice in the invention of childhood.  Read about Michael Morpurgo's own recollections of his childhood, his thoughts about childhood today and how he came to be involved in the series, in our feature, meet the presenter.

Childhood is perceived differently both culturally and historically. Explore these perspectives of childhood further in our featured articles.

Cultural childhoods - by Heather Montgomery
Children who inhabit a spirit world or children beaten for lack of social competence, explore how children the world over are regarded very differently in cultural childhoods.

Childhood inventions - by Hugh Cunningham
Catholics, Protestants, the Romantics and the Enlightened, find out how they all created a childhood of their own in childhood inventions.

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