Toybox

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Toybox

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• Publié par: ykijarac
• Nombre de lectures: 140
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Welcome to the Toybox A touring exhibition that looks at toys past and present. Children have always played with toys. Things like balls, hobby horses and even yo-yos have at least a 2000 year history. Over the centuries, toys have followed the Boys and toys, scooters, changes in the wider world and have go-carts and a rocking horse from about 1910. With kind permission of Oxfordshire County Council. mirrored society as a whole.

Until the 1870s many British children were part of the work force and had little time to play. Only the very rich could afford more than a few simple, home-made toys.

In the 19th century new factories and new materials made toys cheaper and more readily available. At the same time a change in people’s attitudes backed by government regulations took children out of the workforce and into the schoolroom. Childhood became longer as toys became easier to get. The Stafford children, 1910, A Wi   th 1 k 9 ind t   h pe   r c mi e ss n io t n u of r    y toy shop.  a prosperous family with their the V&A Picture Library. Since the 1950s there has been an Christmas presents. explosion i t nufacture fuelled With kind permission of Leicestershire County Council. n oy ma by new materials, technology, greater wealth and the impact of advertising. Today most children have a toy box full of toys. Bisque headed doll from about 1900. With kind permission of   Leicestershire County Council.