COLCEC course topics 2018-19

Horace Jones and the Victorian City

Marianne Butler and Maxwell Hutchinson, London Architecture (Metro Publications, 2012)
Judith Flanders, The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London (Thomas Dunne Books, 2014)
Jerry White, London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God (Vintage, 2008)

Stephen Alford, London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City (Penguin, 2018)
John William Burgon, The Life and Times of Thomas Gresham (originally published 1839; digitised version available free on Google Books)
John Guy, Gresham's Law: The Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth's Banker (Profile Books, to be published May 2019)
Valerie Shrimplin, Thomas Gresham and his Vision for Gresham College (Pitkin Publishing, 2017)

OU on the BBC: The Invention of Childhood - information about the 2006 BBC Radio series
Re-inventing childhood - Open University article related to the BBC Radio series, about childhood in different historical periods
Christ's Hospital - about the school, including its history, the uniform, the sculpture in the City
Bluecoats in the City: 350 Years of Christ's Hospital - display at Museum of London until 4 November 2018 (booklet and other items in Museum shop)
Charles Booth's London - Booth's poverty maps and notebooks in digitised and searchable format
V&A Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green
The Foundling Museum
Hidden Lives Revealed: A Virtual Archive - Children in Care 1881-1981
Ragged School Museum
The Romantic Child - Gresham Lecture (Museum of London, 20 November 2018, video and transcript available online soon after)
The Workhouse - the story of an institution
The History of the Workhouse - webinar (video) by Peter Higginbotham of The Workhouse website

Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More (Anchor Books, 1998)
Philippe Ariès, Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life (Pimlico, new edn, 1995; originally published 1965)
Hugh Cunningham, The Invention of Childhood (BBC Books, 2006)
Derek Fraser, The Evolution of the British Welfare State (Palgrave Macmillan, 3rd rev edn, 2002)
Jamila Gavin, Coram Boy (Egmont, pbk, 2015) (children's novel)
John Guy, Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-Year-Old Story Retold (Penguin, pbk, 2013)
Barbara A. Hanawalt, Growing Up in Medieval London (Oxford University Press USA, 1993)
Colin Heywood, A History of Childhood: Children and Childhood in the West from Medieval to Modern Times (Polity Press, 2nd edn, 2017)
Caroline Lawrence, The Girl with the Ivory Knife: Time Travel Diaries 1 (novel) (Piccadilly Press, to be published April 2019)
Lionel Rose, The Erosion of Childhood: Childhood in Britain 1860-1918 (Routledge, 1991)
Eleanor Scott, An Archaeology of Childhood: Finding Childhoods in the Past (to be published)