Eighteenth-Century Childhood: An Age of Crisis and Continuity

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This paper explored the role of children’s education in sustaining or undermining political and ideological movements in eighteenth-century Britain, using Scottish Jacobite grammar schools as a case study. It argued that educational environments serve as critical mechanisms of ideological transmission, and that the decline of Jacobite influence in schools by 1745 reflects a broader erosion of the movement’s viability. The paper integrates historiographies of childhood and political culture to propose new methodological approaches to assessing long-term ideological endurance.

Period	26 Jun 2025 → 27 Jun 2025
Held at	University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Degree of Recognition	National