Playtime
A History of Australian Childhood
$29.75
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
16 September 2025
Summary
The first history of childhood play and imagination in pre-war Australia
This groundbreaking book is a history of children’s play and imagination in Australia between 1890 and the Second World War. It is a story about the generations that grew up at a time when nation and empire were being reimagined amid the globalising currents of war, technology and trade. Theirs were faces that would remain forever young in monochrome film, and whose thoughts and dreams would be preserved between …
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 154mm x 234mm |
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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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