Introduction: The World in Miniature; Part I: Children and Adults; 1 A Motherly Concern for Children: Invocations of Queen Victoria in Imperial Child Rescue Literature; 2 Ayah, Caregiver to Anglo-Indian Children, c. 1750-1947; 3 Babies of the Empire: Science, Nation and Truby King's Mothercraft in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa; Part II: Rites of Passage; 4 'He is hardened to the climate & a little bleached by it's [sic] influence': Imperial Childhoods in Scotland and Madras, c. 1800-1830; 5 'Dear Mummy and Daddy': Reading Wartime Letters from British Children Evacuated to Canada During the Second World War6 East African Students in a (Post- )Imperial World; Part III: Indigenous Experiences; 7 Resistance and Race: Aboriginal Child Workers in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Australia; 8 Health, Race and Family in Colonial Bengal; 9 Race, Indigeneity and the Baden-Powell Girl Guides: Age, Gender and the British World, 1908-1920; Part IV: Literary Childhoods; 10 Transforming Narratives of Colonial Danger: Imagining the Environments of New Zealand and Australia in Children's Literature, 1862-189911 The 'Willful' Girl in the Anglo-World: Sentimental Heroines and Wild Colonial Girls, 1872-1923; Part V: Youth and Sexuality; 12 Boys and Homosex: Danger and Possibility in Queensland, 1890-1914; 13 Leery Sue Goes to the Show: Popular Performance, Sexuality and the Disorderly Girl ; Part VI: Children's Empires and Material Cultures; 14 Savage Instincts, Civilizing Spaces: The Child, the Empire and the Public Park, c. 1880-1914; 15 Memorializing Colonial Childhoods: From the Frontier to the Museum.