ABSTRACT

This article considers the potential for children’s drawings to be utilized more widely as documentary evidence by historians. Children remain seen but not heard in much of history, with a noted source problem hampering efforts to address this. Drawings are a different type of ambiguous evidence but there is a compelling case for their usage, partly demonstrated by various professional uses including the acceptance of children’s drawings as evidence in courts. This article analyses four boys’ drawings of aerial conflict from the Spanish Civil War which are powerful visual reminders of the toll of war on children and exemplify the communicative power of non-linguistic sources to a heavily textual discipline.

摘要

本文考虑了儿童绘画被历史学家更广泛地用作文献证据的潜力。在历史的大部分时间里，儿童仍然被看到但没有被听到，一个明显的来源问题阻碍了解决这个问题的努力。图纸是一种不同类型的含糊不清的证据，但它们的使用有令人信服的理由，部分原因是各种专业用途，包括在法庭上接受儿童图纸作为证据。本文分析了四个男孩绘制的西班牙内战中的空中冲突图画，这些图画有力地提醒了战争对儿童造成的损失，并体现了非语言资源对大量文本学科的交流能力。