Professor Hugh Cunningham is based at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His publications include "The Volunteer Force: A Social and Political History 1859-1908" (Croom 1975), "Leisure in the Industrial Revolution "(Croom 1980) and "The Children of the Poor: Representations of Childhood since the Seventeenth Century" (Blackwell, 1991). He is also the author of our recent title "The Challenge of Democracy."