Hugh St Clair Cunningham (born 1942) is a historian and retired academic. A specialist in the history of childhood, nationalism, philanthropy and leisure, he is an emeritus professor of social history at the University of Kent.
In 1969, Cunningham became a lecturer at the University of Kent, where he was promoted to a senior lecturership in 1984 and then to be professor of social history in 1991.[1] He was still on the faculty at the end of the 2001–2002 year,[4] but had retired by March 2004.[5] He was appointed an emeritus professor on retirement.[5] In a staff profile, he listed his specialisms as: the "history of childhood; leisure; popular nationalism; British history 1832–1918".[6] More recently, he has studied charity and philanthropy.[7]
Bibliography
Books
Cunningham, Hugh (1975). The Volunteer Force: A Social and Political History 1859–1908. London: Croom Helm. ISBN9780856642579.
Cunningham, Hugh (1980). Leisure in the Industrial Revolution, c. 1780–c. 1880. London: Croom Helm. ISBN9780312478940.
Cunningham, Hugh (1991). The Children of the Poor: Representations of Childhood since the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN9780631171621.
Cunningham, Hugh (1995). Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500. London: Longman. ISBN9780582238534.
Cunningham, Hugh (1977). "The Metropolitan Fairs: A Case Study in the Social Control of Leisure". In Donajgrodzki, A. P. (ed.). Social Control in Nineteenth-Century Britain. London: Croom Helm. pp. 163–184. ISBN9780874718805.
Cunningham, Hugh (1985). "Leisure". In Benson, John (ed.). The Working Class in England, 1875–1914. London: Croom Helm. pp. 133–164. ISBN9781317268802.
Cunningham, Hugh (1986). "The Conservative Party and Patriotism". In Colls, Robert; Dodd, P. (eds.). Englishness: Politics and Culture, 1880–1920. London: Croom Helm. pp. 283–307. ISBN9780709945628.
Cunningham, Hugh (1987). "Child Labour in the Industrial Revolution". The Historian. 14: 3–8.
Cunningham, Hugh (1995). "Leisure". In Leventhal, Fred M. (ed.). Twentieth-Century Britain: An Encyclopedia. New York and London: Garland Publishing. pp. 450–452. ISBN9780824072056.
Cunningham, Hugh (1996). "The History of Childhood". In Hwang, C. Philip; Lamb, Michael E.; Sigel, Irving E. (eds.). Images of Childhood. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pp. 27–35. ISBN9780805817010.
Cunningham, Hugh (1998). "Introduction". In Cunningham, Hugh; Innes, Joanna (eds.). Charity, Philanthropy and Reform: From the 1690s to 1850. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press. pp. 1–15. ISBN9781349266838.
Cunningham, Hugh (2001). "The Rights of the Child and the Wrongs of Child Labour: An Historical Perspective". In Leiten, Kristoffel; White, Ben (eds.). Child Labour: Policy Options. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers. pp. 13–26. ISBN9789052600086.
Cunningham, Hugh (2003). "Children's Changing Lives from 1800 to 2000". In Maybin, Janet; Woodhead, Martin (eds.). Childhoods in Context. Chichester: John Wiley and the Open University. pp. 81–128. ISBN9780470846933.
Cunningham, Hugh; Stromquist, Shelton (2005). "Child Labour and the Rights of Children: Historical Patterns of Decline and Persistence". In Weston, Burns H. (ed.). Child Labour and Human Rights: Making Children Matter. London: Lynne Rienner. pp. 55–83. ISBN9781588263247.
Cunningham, Hugh (2012). "Saving the Children, c.1830–c.1920". In Morrison, Heidi (ed.). The Global History of Childhood Reader. Routledge Readers in History. London: Routledge. pp. 359–374. ISBN9780415782494.