Professor Hugh Cunningham

Hugh Cunningham is emeritus professor of social history at the University of Kent. He's been interested in the history of childhood since the 1980s, and is the author of The Children of the Poor: Representations of Childhood since the Seventeenth Century (1991), Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500 (1995; 2nd edn, 2005), and The Invention of Childhood (2006), the latter accompanying the Radio 4 series which he co-wrote with Michael Morpurgo.

Hugh's other interests are in nineteenth-century British history, on which he has written The Challenge of Democracy: Britain 1832-1918 (2001), and the history of leisure and of national identity.