Childhood is perceived differently both culturally and historically. Explore these perspectives of childhood further in our featured articles.
Cultural childhoods - by Heather Montgomery
Children who inhabit a spirit world or children beaten for lack of social competence, explore how children the world over are regarded very differently in cultural childhoods.
Childhood inventions - by Hugh Cunningham
Catholics, Protestants, the Romantics and the Enlightened, find out how they all created a childhood of their own in childhood inventions.
A very British institution - but one shaped by migrant labour. Meet the doctors who shaped the NHS.
Bringing our calendar to life: Dragonflies, hawkmoths and plovers.
Our interviews with Bill Gates and colleagues reveal How a Geek Changed the World.