Revitalising Interest in British History

Through a Child’s Eyes
A British Child is the result of one young mother’s concerns about the way her daughter was learning – or rather, failing to learn – about her own heritage, and the way in which that heritage shapes the world we live in today.

She bought together a talented team of researchers, writers, illustrators, clothes designers and doll specialists. Together they set about recreating past worlds of childhood to which today’s children could relate. The key components of those worlds are costume dolls with real play value, and exciting story books in which the doll is the key character.

The dolls, and their costumes, conform to all relevant health and safety legislation, and the books are carefully researched and accurately written interpretations of what might have happened to children in the eras they cover. The stories do have happy endings, but also they hint that life for children then was not at all easy.

The first dolls and stories cover the Elizabethan and Victorian eras. More are planned, to extend both the time periods covered and cultural influences – for example the next launch is planned to be a doll and a story not from Britain itself, but from within its empire.

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Fortunately, her father had a great eye for detail and painted the most wonderful picture of what it was like to socialise with someone such as Queen Elizabeth I.