Amelia Huw Morgan
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154 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5 Jul
Amelia Huw Morgan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Everything in a sort of very dominion kind of way, you know, for childhood.
And lots of children together as well.
So this idea of clusters of children, children playing, children playing games, children playing at being adults as well.
So children having a tea party together.
children playing, looking after dolls and that sort of thing.
So she was creating these bonneted, beautiful little children, but who also have this slightly vacant look about them.
Mother Goose, which is incredibly popular.
the people collecting the nursery rhymes and putting those together.
They wanted to put nursery rhymes next to illustrations to ensure that children would be interested in them at a time when childhood is suddenly re-understood and re-imagined by society.
No, and it doesn't even have a tissue, a tissue.
I'll just read it to you.
It says, ring-a-ring-a-roses, a pocket full of poses.
Hush, hush, hush, hush, we're all tumbled down.
So hush, hush, not a tissue.
Nothing to do with sneezing and actually more to do with, I think, conforming potentially and obedience.
I think at the time when she was working, you know, it was the beginning of an idea of what childhood was all about.
Children before that had potentially just been seen as little adults or just a workforce, actually.
Some children were working as young as four and suddenly there's this new era and a new kind of evidence that childhood was important, but also education acts which were making childhood education important changed.
in order that they might become useful to the workforce in the future but to be valued at their time of childhood and we're going to respect them and we're going to give them things which are for them and specifically for them and we're going to use really good work really good illustration and value that for the child audience so that that child audience is being kind of supported and looked after rather than just seen as these these little people that will eventually become useful
Kate Greenaway and her work came along at exactly the right time for that kind of mass interpretation of childhood and mass publication as well.
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