Research outputs
2025
The curious place of the child in the city: the shifting politics of play in three playground objects
Playthings and Playtimes: Play, affect and material culture in the ludic world (2025). UCL Press. doi:10.14324/111.9781800089624
Swings and Roundabouts (BBC History Magazine)
Winder, J. (2025). Swings and Roundabouts (BBC History Magazine). [Magazine article].
2024
The bust card: policing, race, welfare, drugs, and the counterculture in 1960s Britain.
Bradley, K., Spicer, E., & Winder, J. (2024). The bust card: policing, race, welfare, drugs, and the counterculture in 1960s Britain.. Modern British history (Oxford, England), hwae062. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwae062
Designed for Play Children's Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840-2010
Winder, J. (2024). Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010. University of London Press. doi:10.14296/mgyc2910
Promoting diversity and place attachment through place based histories: hybrid material-digital infrastructures and the public realm
Winder, J., & Clarke, C. (2024). Promoting diversity and place attachment through place based histories: hybrid material-digital infrastructures and the public realm: Social and cultural infrastructure for people and policy: discussion papers. Retrieved from https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/
Children's playgrounds: ‘inadequacies and mediocrities inherited from the past’?
Winder, J. (2024). Children's playgrounds: ‘inadequacies and mediocrities inherited from the past’?. Children's Geographies, 22(1), 188-193. doi:10.1080/14733285.2023.2197577
2023
The curious history of London’s public drinking water fountains
Winder, J., & Goodwin, G. (2023). The curious history of London’s public drinking water fountains. The Conversation. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/
Reimagining the Playful, Healthy and Sustainable City
Winder, J. (2023). Reimagining the Playful, Healthy and Sustainable City. Environment and History, 29(1), 10-14. doi:10.3197/096734023x16702350656889
Revisiting the playground: Charles Wicksteed, play equipment and public spaces for children in early twentieth-century Britain
Winder, J. (2023). Revisiting the playground: Charles Wicksteed, play equipment and public spaces for children in early twentieth-century Britain. Urban History, 50(1), 134-151. doi:10.1017/s0963926821000687
2022
Revisiting the Playground (History Workshop Online)
Winder, J. (2022). Revisiting the Playground (History Workshop Online). History Workshop Online. Retrieved from https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/family-childhood/revisiting-the-playground/
Historic Kent: The Value of the County's Heritage Sector
Gill, D., Moore, C., & Winder, J. (2022). Historic Kent: The Value of the County's Heritage Sector.
‘Creative Repurposing’ and Levelling Up: History, Heritage and Urban Renewal
Bristow, M., Clarke, C., Delman, R., Liebenrood, M., & Winder, J. (2022). ‘Creative Repurposing’ and Levelling Up: History, Heritage and Urban Renewal. History & Policy.