Children’s play throughout history has been free, spontaneous, and intertwined with work, set in the playgrounds of the fields, streams, and barnyards. Childr

A chronological history of children's playtime over the last 200 years If you believe the experts, “child’s play”; is serious business. From sociologists

Returning to his home country of New Zealand, Brian Sutton-smith documents the relationship between children's play and the actual process of history. Drawing u

New Zealand children from 1840 to 1890 were subjected to an unusual combination of agrarian existence and an industrial social philosophy in the newly formed sc