Archive - PLAYGROUP

Of church halls and custard creams

or, the strange disappearance of community playgroups

Sep 25 •

March 2024

The Holiday Factory

Center Parcs, and the enclosed outdoors

Mar 1 •

February 2024

The rise and rise of soft play

on 90s Dads, church tig, and the right to play

Feb 19 •

December 2023

though I keep this from my children

on history for preschoolers, Christmas, and the 'world war'

Dec 21, 2023 •

October 2023

Inconvenient rights

have we stopped valuing life or did we never start

Oct 30, 2023 •

August 2023

It takes a village

children’s sickness, community, and intergenerational care networks

Aug 1, 2023 •

May 2023

Bring Back National Milk

not so long ago, the state supplied free formula milk to all babies

May 22, 2023 •

April 2023

Reading Penelope Leach in Lockdown

babies, care work, and lost archives

Apr 11, 2023 •

March 2023

a 1949 birth story, and the NHS maternity services crisis today

Mar 29, 2023 •

About the Budget

Feminism, work, and childcare

Mar 23, 2023 •

Where did all the crèches go?

and how we lost access to childcare for play, not work

Mar 1, 2023 •

October 2022

The problem with Liz Truss’s childcare plan

Little French toddlers in orderly lines

Oct 13, 2022 •

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