Research project
Agents of Future Promise: the ideological use of children in culture and politics (Britain and France, c.1880-c.1950)
- Start date: 1 October 2014
- End date: 30 October 2015
- Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council
- Primary investigator: Professor Laura King
Description
This project examined how children have been instrumentalised to represent certain political futures. It explored the use of children as 'agents' of particular notions of the future, and the effects of it on their welfare, in three contexts: in British politics and culture during and after the Second World War; the instrumentalisation of children through material culture in Britain, c.1880-1914; and the political use of child evacuees in France during the Second World War. The project involved Dr Vicky Crewe and Dr Lindsey Dodd as Co-Investigators, and partnerships with History & Policy, Save the Children and War Child.