Cunningham, Hugh 1942-

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CUNNINGHAM, Hugh 1942-

PERSONAL: Born January 8, 1942, in Cheltenham, England; married Diane Le May (a psychotherapist), 1969; children: Petra, Kirsty, Gemma. Education: Cambridge University, B.A., 1963, M.A., 1966; University of Sussex, D.Phil., 1969.

ADDRESSES: Office—School of History, Rutherford College, University of Kent—Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NX, England; fax: 01227-827258. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone, lecturer in history, 1963-66; University of Kent—Canterbury, Canterbury, England, lecturer, 1969-84, senior lecturer, 1984-91, professor of social history, 1991—.

WRITINGS:

The Volunteer Force: A Political and Social History, 1859-1908, Croom Helm, 1975.

Leisure in the Industrial Revolution, Croom Helm, 1980.

The Children of the Poor: Representations of Childhood since the Seventeenth Century, Basil Blackwell, 1991.

Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500, Longman (White Plains, NY), 1996.

(Editor) Child Labour in Historical Perspective: 1800-1985: Case Studies from Europe, Japan, and Colombia, UNICEF: Istituto degli Innocenti (Florence, Italy), 1996.

(Editor, with Joanna Innes) Charity, Philanthropy, and Reform: From the 1690s to 1850, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1998.

The Challenge of Democracy: Britain 1932-1918, Longman (White Plains, NY), 2001.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Research on English national identity.

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