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A medieval manuscript illustration showing children having a snowball fight. A Book of Hours, c. 1510 CE. (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA)

A photograph dating to the late-19th or early-20th century showing Ndebele women and children and traditional huts at Bulawayo, once the capital of Matabeleland. Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress.

An 1878 oil on canvas, Madame Charpentier and Her Children, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. Georges Charpentier was a publisher who commissioned many works from the artist. The two girls are shown in...

A photograph of British evacuated children to the United States reading news of the Second World War back home. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of British children playing in the village of Castle Combe in Wiltshire having been evacuated during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

Anne of Austria (l. 1601-1666) with her two sons Louis XIV of France (r. 1643-1715) and Philippe, Duke of Orléans (l. 1640-1701), oil on canvas by an unknown artist, between 1641-1650. Palace of Versailles.

Cleopatra VII, one of the last Egyptian queens of the line of Ptolemy, is one of history's most famous people, and yet her children by Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, and their fate, are nearly forgotten. This is original content based...

In 1620 CE the Mayflower crossed from England to North America. Filled to the brim with passengers, livestock, and supplies, they faced many delays before finally reaching the shores of the New World. The Pilgrims suffered and many of them...

Childhood in the Viking Age (c. 750-1100) was largely undocumented as historical records primarily focus on adults, particularly men. Likewise, little is known about children's presence in the afterlife, as no runestones were raised in their...

Freeborn Roman children, ingenuiae, born of Roman citizen parents lived a life that was dictated by the level of society into which they were born; a day in the life of a child from the lower level of society and one from the more affluent...