A Cultural History of Youth presents historians, and scholars and students of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of youth from ancient times to modernity. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2,500 years, this is the definitive reference work on the subject, comprising:

Volume 1: A Cultural History of Youth in Antiquity (500BC-500AD) Christian Laes, University of Manchester, UK, and Ville Vuolanto, University of Tampere, Finland.

Volume 2: A Cultural History of Youth in the Medieval Age (500-1450)

Volume 3: A Cultural History of Youth in the Renaissance (1450-1650)

Volume 4: A Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800)

Volume 5: A Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Empire (1800-1920)

Volume 6: A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age (1920-2000+)

Each volume adopts the same thematic structure, covering: Concepts of Youth; Spaces and Places; Education and Work; Leisure and Play; Emotions, Gender, Sexuality and the Body; Belief and Ideology; Authority and Agency; War and Conflict and Towards a World History, enabling readers to trace one theme throughout history, as well as gaining a thorough overview of each individual period.

Stephanie Olsen (Ph.D, FRHistS), is an historian of childhood and youth, education, experiences and the emotions, with a particular focus on the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is a Senior Researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (Tampere University), having previously held positions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions (Berlin) and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

She is the author/co-author of two monographs, Juvenile Nation: Youth, Emotions and the Making of the Modern British Citizen (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Learning How to Feel: Children's Literature and the History of Emotional Socialization, c. 1870-1970 (2014), and the editor of Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History: National, Colonial and Global Perspectives (2015). Along with Heidi Morrison, she is the editor of the 4-volume Children, Childhood and Youth in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Global Primary Source Collection. She co-edits the journal History of Education.

Heidi Morrison is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse, USA. She is the editor of The Global History of Childhood Reader (2012).