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Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?
Robert Winston
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Robert Winston
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 15
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Inner and Outer London
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