Playtime: Journey Back to Childhood with Emily Gallagher

Join Emily Gallagher as she introduces her book Playtime: A History of Australian Childhood.
Children’s play has long been an important part of Australia’s cultural landscape. It is how we learn to live, to forge friendships and to make sense of the world. In this talk, Emily Gallagher delves into the imaginative lives of the children that grew up in the early-to-mid twentieth century. It is a story about young dreamers and aspiring journalists, old schoolrooms and backyard cubbies, war and modernity, sibling rivalries and intergenerational alliances, and the enduring power of the imagination to defy the routine and powerlessness of everyday life.