Playtime
a history of australian childhood
$35.10
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
16 September 2025
Summary
Playtime: Childhood Imagination in Pre-War Australia
This groundbreaking book unveils the history of childhood imagination in Australia between 1890 and the outbreak of World War II. It tells the story of a generation growing up as nation and empire were being redefined amidst war, technology, and trade. Their faces, forever young in monochrome film, held dreams and thoughts preserved within school exercise books.
Built around six imaginative worlds – amateur journalism, bir…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760645663 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1760645664 |
| Author: | Emily Gallagher |
| Publisher: | Black Inc. |
| Imprint: | La Trobe University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 16 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 234mm x 154mm |
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About The Author
Emily Gallagher
Emily Gallagher is a research editor for the Australian Dictionary of Biography, at the Australian National University. Her PhD thesis won the Serle Award, a biennial prize awarded by the Australian Historical Association for the best postgraduate thesis in Australian history, and the Lyndall Ryan Thesis Prize. It was also shortlisted for the J.G. Crawford Prize.
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