The Psychological Historian

Play is essential to healthy brain development and learning in early childhood. Human brains evolved to “boot” principally through social in...

  Once upon a time, there was a grandmother who was sad. She had been born into a happy Kingdom, not long after a great war that had vanquis...

  At 21.55 on Wednesday 1st December, I posted this tweet. I had been idly browsing the BBC news website and seen a reference to the Daily...

    ‘Brains are built, over time, from the bottom up’ (Harvard Center on the Developing Child ND, online). 'Over the course of the rece...

Maternalism in the Present   I reached one of those sad watersheds in my life in February: my mother died. She didn’t have covid; she had Al...

As we now hopefully leave the era of extreme lockdowns behind us and reflect on the huge disturbance that has impacted on England’s educatio...