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Until quite recently, the view of the 1970s as the last remaining ‘uncharted’ decade within British cinema scholarship—and barely less so in twentieth-century British cultural historiography—remain...

This article reports on practice-based pilot research being undertaken at Birmingham Children's Hospital in England on the impact of bedside theatre performance on hospitalised children's well-being. It discusses the process of creating theatre for sick children, connecting with the hospital and working within the hospital tight routines, dealing with ethics, working with theatre artists and performing to children bedside. It also reports on evidence collected by questionnaire and interviews about the perceived benefits of bedside theatre by children and their parent/carers. This emphasis on the process is appropriate for theatre practitioners, arts therapists and clinical staff who work with hospitalised children.

M. Keenan, 2012, Oxford, Oxford University Press, £40 (hbk), 355 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-989567-0 At the time when it seems like hardly a day goes by without further revelations of child sexual abuse hi...