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Playtime: A History of Australian Childhood

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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 …

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Praise for Playtime

'Beautifully written, Playtime is an innovative history of children’s imaginative play that takes children seriously in their own right and on their own terms.' —Hannah Forsyth, author of Virtue Capitalists 
 

'In this brilliant study, Emily Gallagher reveals childhood imagination and play as at once traditional and modern, conservative and forward-looking – a realm of joy, fantasy and fear entangled with the adult world, yet a kingdom that children also claim as their own. Playtime is a book of striking richness, originality and creativity that will change your understanding of the possibilities of Australian social history.' —Frank Bongiorno, author of Dreamers and Schemers