Africa 1 Susan Isaacs abandonment 1 apartheid 1 childhood 1 children 1 colonialism 1 early childhood education 1 early-years education 1 early-years education history 1 foundling hospital 1 human evolution 1 institutionalisation 1 maternal duties 1 media 1 mythology 1 narrative 1 open-air nursery 1 play 1 poverty 1 purposes of nursery schooling 1 racism 1 school readiness 1 schooling for parental responsibility 1 social reproduction 1 storying 1 under-fives in elementary schools 1 urban Lancashire demographic sample 1901 1