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Junk food, crisps and fizzy drinks: children and distinctions of taste

“Small wonder that now everyone eats the same junk food and watches the same junk programmes, in a culture where children’s tastes came so conspicuously to dominate.” Quote: Mary Warnock, The Observer, 20 March 1983. Photograph: Science Museum, 1999-278. In the 1980s, newspapers decided to put what children ate on the table. “The children’s economy …

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“Those great social levellers” Children, fashion, and class

“Inhabitants of the new childhood look more like mini adults, but that is because new parents like to dress like children. See the family in the park in their brightly coloured jogging suits, anoraks, and those great social levellers, trainers.” Quote: Lesley Garner, Daily Telegraph, 4 November 1986. Image: V&A Museum, T.980:1, 2-1994. A major …

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