EXHIBITION/ V&A Museum of Childhood
THE GREAT DIARY PROJECT
17th May – 12th October 2014
Using documents from The Great Diary Project archive at Bishopsgate Institute, this exhibition offers insights into the lives of children and teenagers at particular moments in history. The diaries on display date from 1813 to 1996, showing changes in attitudes over time and demonstrating how an individual's unique voice can be captured in this very private kind of writing.
On public display for the first time, they include tales of flogging and bed bugs at boarding school during the Napoleonic Wars, early twentieth century American Scout diaries, as well as coded accounts of wild teenage behaviour during the Blitz.
Opening times
10.00 to 17.45 daily
Admission is free
V&A Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9PA
http://www.museumofchildhood.org.uk/the-great-diary-project
The Great Diary Project
www.museumofchildhood.org.uk
17 May – 12 October 2014. A selection of diaries written by children across the 19th and 20th centuries, offering insights into children's lives across different eras.