Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World

For the authors writing here, children were central to the imperial project and this book argues that their experience exemplifies the process through which ‘Britishness’ was expressed and contested across the globe. By considering a wide range of imperial children from those at the centre of the metropole, to temporary migrants, settlers and indigenous communities this book highlights the diversity of roles these children represent, from ‘petty imperialists, migrant “pioneers”, active resisters and dispossessed victims’ (p. 2).