1. There is one article which deals explicitly with nineteenth-century childhoods: E. Bradlow, ‘Children and Childhood at the Cape in the 19th Century’, Kleio, 20 (1988), pp. 8–27.
2. H. Cunningham, ‘Histories of Childhood’, The American Historical Review, 103, 4 (1998), p. 1195.
3. See, for instance: L. Thomas, Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), and ‘The Modern Girl and Racial Respectability in 1930s South Africa’, JAH, 47, 3 (2006), pp. 461–490;
4. B. Carton, Blood from Your Children: The Colonial Origins of Generational Conflict in South Africa (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000);
5. B. Grier, Invisible Hands: Child Labour and the State in Colonial Zimbabwe (London: Heinemann, 2005);