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Education, Travel and the ‘Civilisation’ of the Victorian Working Classes / Michele M. Strong
Review Date: 16 October 2014
Michelle M. Strong has produced a very detailed analysis of educational tours by working-class travellers in the last four decades of the 19th century. The book consists of five chapters, four of which discuss travel to the Paris exhibitions of the second half of the 19th century, in 1861, 1867, 1878 and 1889 and to the Vienna exhibition in 1873.
Empire’s Children: Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869–1967 / Ellen Boucher
Review Date: 02 October 2014
Empire’s Children is far from the now well-worn tale of imperial decline. It locates the shifting fortunes of the child emigration movement at the heart of the reconfiguration of identities, political economies, and nationalisms in Britain, Canada, Australia, and Rhodesia.