Thinking about childhood over time, something that we had not read about much in class was swimming. At first I just thought it would be interested to look at swimming as an activity that children would do for as a middle-class activity in school. However I learned that swimming as an activity for children was a lot more complex and showed a lot more about society than I had initially thought. I conducted research based upon the questions of who was swimming? were girls swimming? where were they swimming?