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Kowloon, Hong Kong, China: a Chinese family. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

A travelling gypsy family enjoying a rest and a meal of soup, bread and wine. Engraving by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.

Growing up and getting by : international perspectives on childhood and youth in hard times / edited by John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson and Sarah Marie Hall.

Mary Barton : a tale of Manchester life / Elizabeth Gaskell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Macdonald Daly.

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A travelling gypsy family enjoying a rest and a meal of soup, bread and wine. Engraving by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.

Growing up and getting by : international perspectives on childhood and youth in hard times / edited by John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson and Sarah Marie Hall.

Kowloon, Hong Kong, China: a Chinese family. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

Mary Barton : a tale of Manchester life / Elizabeth Gaskell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Macdonald Daly.