Children’s History Society
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The official account of the Children’s History Society 👧🧒
🧸Exploring and sharing the diverse history of children, childhood and youth
🪁Our website: https://www.histchild.org/
admin: Bethan Catherine Watts
🧸Exploring and sharing the diverse history of children, childhood and youth
🪁Our website: https://www.histchild.org/
admin: Bethan Catherine Watts
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Investigating Irish & Scottish Women Writers of Children’s Literature
12 Dec @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social – free
Exploring regional & national identities in children’s literature c.1750–1940 – an era of major cultural & political upheaval in Ireland & Scotland
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12 Dec @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social – free
Exploring regional & national identities in children’s literature c.1750–1940 – an era of major cultural & political upheaval in Ireland & Scotland
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat...
Investigating Irish & Scottish Women Writers of Children's Literature
A one-day symposium on Irish and Scottish women writers of children's literature between 1750 and 1940.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Investigating Irish & Scottish Women Writers of Children’s Literature
12 Dec @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social – free
Exploring regional & national identities in children’s literature c.1750–1940 – an era of major cultural & political upheaval in Ireland & Scotland
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat...
12 Dec @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social – free
Exploring regional & national identities in children’s literature c.1750–1940 – an era of major cultural & political upheaval in Ireland & Scotland
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat...
📣 Check out this upcoming online workshop hosted by the Research of the Interdisciplinary Childhood Studies Team at the University of Warsaw.
Follow this link to access the workshop on Zoom and add the event to your calendar: us06web.zoom.us/j/82529424609
Follow this link to access the workshop on Zoom and add the event to your calendar: us06web.zoom.us/j/82529424609
October 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
📣 Check out this upcoming online workshop hosted by the Research of the Interdisciplinary Childhood Studies Team at the University of Warsaw.
Follow this link to access the workshop on Zoom and add the event to your calendar: us06web.zoom.us/j/82529424609
Follow this link to access the workshop on Zoom and add the event to your calendar: us06web.zoom.us/j/82529424609
📣 Seminar Tonight!
Join Professor Lynne Vallone and a team from Queen Mary’s Women’s Health Research Unit for tonight’s seminar “The Foetus and Birthing Tools Across Disciplines” 👶
The seminar takes place in-person at the Queen’s Building, Queen Mary University of London from 5:00-6:30pm tonight!
Join Professor Lynne Vallone and a team from Queen Mary’s Women’s Health Research Unit for tonight’s seminar “The Foetus and Birthing Tools Across Disciplines” 👶
The seminar takes place in-person at the Queen’s Building, Queen Mary University of London from 5:00-6:30pm tonight!
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
📣 Seminar Tonight!
Join Professor Lynne Vallone and a team from Queen Mary’s Women’s Health Research Unit for tonight’s seminar “The Foetus and Birthing Tools Across Disciplines” 👶
The seminar takes place in-person at the Queen’s Building, Queen Mary University of London from 5:00-6:30pm tonight!
Join Professor Lynne Vallone and a team from Queen Mary’s Women’s Health Research Unit for tonight’s seminar “The Foetus and Birthing Tools Across Disciplines” 👶
The seminar takes place in-person at the Queen’s Building, Queen Mary University of London from 5:00-6:30pm tonight!
📣 Call for Papers! 📣
Check out the call for papers for our Biennial Conference in Sheffield!
Deadline for proposals is 14 December!
www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
Check out the call for papers for our Biennial Conference in Sheffield!
Deadline for proposals is 14 December!
www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society
University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026
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October 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
📣 Call for Papers! 📣
Check out the call for papers for our Biennial Conference in Sheffield!
Deadline for proposals is 14 December!
www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
Check out the call for papers for our Biennial Conference in Sheffield!
Deadline for proposals is 14 December!
www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
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The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth
Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society
University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026
www.histchild.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth
📣 New Blog Post!
We were delighted to welcome the Seen and Heard project run by Investing in Children to our conference at Newcastle University last July. Seen and Heard, a child-led group aged between 7-15, identified a lack of representation of children and young people in…
We were delighted to welcome the Seen and Heard project run by Investing in Children to our conference at Newcastle University last July. Seen and Heard, a child-led group aged between 7-15, identified a lack of representation of children and young people in…
September 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
📣 New Blog Post!
We were delighted to welcome the Seen and Heard project run by Investing in Children to our conference at Newcastle University last July. Seen and Heard, a child-led group aged between 7-15, identified a lack of representation of children and young people in…
We were delighted to welcome the Seen and Heard project run by Investing in Children to our conference at Newcastle University last July. Seen and Heard, a child-led group aged between 7-15, identified a lack of representation of children and young people in…
Interested in the histories of children and youths? Follow us!🧒👧
✍️ share your research with us!
📖 stay updated with the most recent scholarship!
⭐️ widen your network and meet like-minded researchers, academics, educators and enthusiasts!
✍️ share your research with us!
📖 stay updated with the most recent scholarship!
⭐️ widen your network and meet like-minded researchers, academics, educators and enthusiasts!
July 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Interested in the histories of children and youths? Follow us!🧒👧
✍️ share your research with us!
📖 stay updated with the most recent scholarship!
⭐️ widen your network and meet like-minded researchers, academics, educators and enthusiasts!
✍️ share your research with us!
📖 stay updated with the most recent scholarship!
⭐️ widen your network and meet like-minded researchers, academics, educators and enthusiasts!
Check out this great opportunity to get your research Spotlighted! 👧🧒
And if you have published or seen something great in the anthropology of childhood or youth, it could be our next Spotlight feature! Author guidelines here acyig.americananthro.org/spotlight-on...
Spotlight on Scholarship Author Guidelines | Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group
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July 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Check out this great opportunity to get your research Spotlighted! 👧🧒
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Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
History: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Early education, education, education: childcare in the policy and imagination of New Labour’s England, 1994-2003 (RS852) - Swansea UniversityMenu
We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.
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June 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
👧🧒 Stay up-to-date with the Children’s History Society by following us on our official social media profiles below:
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Children's History Society
Children's History Society. 1,105 likes · 106 talking about this. The official account of the Children’s History Society 👧🧒
🧸 Exploring the diverse history of children, childhood and youth
🪁 We...
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July 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
👧🧒 Stay up-to-date with the Children’s History Society by following us on our official social media profiles below:
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📢 CHS Social Media Update!
The CHS sends hearty thanks to @skrtepe.bsky.social for the excellent stewardship of the Society's social media accounts these past three years, and wishes him very well with new ventures.
The CHS sends hearty thanks to @skrtepe.bsky.social for the excellent stewardship of the Society's social media accounts these past three years, and wishes him very well with new ventures.
June 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
📢 CHS Social Media Update!
The CHS sends hearty thanks to @skrtepe.bsky.social for the excellent stewardship of the Society's social media accounts these past three years, and wishes him very well with new ventures.
The CHS sends hearty thanks to @skrtepe.bsky.social for the excellent stewardship of the Society's social media accounts these past three years, and wishes him very well with new ventures.
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#Skystorians! Join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social team online on 19 June @12:30 to explore how historical researchers (across all periods) can make themselves more visible to UK policy makers. For details👉 www.history.ac.uk/events/historical-research-and-policy-making & 🧵
Historical Research and Policy Making
www.history.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
#Skystorians! Join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social team online on 19 June @12:30 to explore how historical researchers (across all periods) can make themselves more visible to UK policy makers. For details👉 www.history.ac.uk/events/historical-research-and-policy-making & 🧵
📚 Excited to announce the upcoming book Yet: A Story of Triumph Over Childhood Separation, Trauma, and Disability, written by @helenpdrabble.bsky.social.
Sign up for the Kickstarter pre-launch campaign to be notified when it goes live! #histchild www.kickstarter.com/projects/hel...
Sign up for the Kickstarter pre-launch campaign to be notified when it goes live! #histchild www.kickstarter.com/projects/hel...
Coming soon: 'Yet': Harry’s Journey Through Trauma to Triumph
Overcoming Childhood Separation, Isolation, Treatment and Disability in 1930-1950s Britain
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May 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
📚 Excited to announce the upcoming book Yet: A Story of Triumph Over Childhood Separation, Trauma, and Disability, written by @helenpdrabble.bsky.social.
Sign up for the Kickstarter pre-launch campaign to be notified when it goes live! #histchild www.kickstarter.com/projects/hel...
Sign up for the Kickstarter pre-launch campaign to be notified when it goes live! #histchild www.kickstarter.com/projects/hel...
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Coming up on Monday: @jennycrane.bsky.social talking about her exciting new book 'Writing "gifted children" in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945". 19/05/25, 11am, Sophia Sheppard Room Magdalen College, Oxford and online. Join us for what will definitely be a fascinating talk!
May 16, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Coming up on Monday: @jennycrane.bsky.social talking about her exciting new book 'Writing "gifted children" in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945". 19/05/25, 11am, Sophia Sheppard Room Magdalen College, Oxford and online. Join us for what will definitely be a fascinating talk!
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🎓New free online PGR Session!
Wednesday 14th of May @ 5-6pm – Tom Cryer on ‘Schooling for Freedom: Reflections on African American Education and the Struggle for Black Citizenship in the American South, c.1867-1947’.
Access the link here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr-seminars/
#histed #edusky
Wednesday 14th of May @ 5-6pm – Tom Cryer on ‘Schooling for Freedom: Reflections on African American Education and the Struggle for Black Citizenship in the American South, c.1867-1947’.
Access the link here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr-seminars/
#histed #edusky
PGR Seminars & Workshops - History of Education Society
historyofeducation.org.uk
May 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🎓New free online PGR Session!
Wednesday 14th of May @ 5-6pm – Tom Cryer on ‘Schooling for Freedom: Reflections on African American Education and the Struggle for Black Citizenship in the American South, c.1867-1947’.
Access the link here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr-seminars/
#histed #edusky
Wednesday 14th of May @ 5-6pm – Tom Cryer on ‘Schooling for Freedom: Reflections on African American Education and the Struggle for Black Citizenship in the American South, c.1867-1947’.
Access the link here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr-seminars/
#histed #edusky
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History of Childhood at the Oxford Long 19thC seminar this week
Coming up soon! @csloanox.bsky.social will be kicking off our series 'Writing Histories/Histories of Writing' with a talk on 'Written developments: literacy, child development & young writing lives in mid-19thC-England'. Weds 07/05, 11.10-12.30 in person at Exeter Cohen Quad, or online via Teams
May 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
History of Childhood at the Oxford Long 19thC seminar this week
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Want to become a Social Media Officer?
If so, there's a great opportunity from our friends at @histchild.bsky.social below!
#histed #edusky
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If so, there's a great opportunity from our friends at @histchild.bsky.social below!
#histed #edusky
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May 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Want to become a Social Media Officer?
If so, there's a great opportunity from our friends at @histchild.bsky.social below!
#histed #edusky
👇
If so, there's a great opportunity from our friends at @histchild.bsky.social below!
#histed #edusky
👇
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Excited to announce the programme for our 2025 Colloquium: Becoming Human? Childhood, Development and the Human Sciences, 23/06, 9.15-5.30, @magdalenoxford.bsky.social and online, with keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social, Bonnie Evans, and Sally Shuttleworth; registration now open.
April 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Excited to announce the programme for our 2025 Colloquium: Becoming Human? Childhood, Development and the Human Sciences, 23/06, 9.15-5.30, @magdalenoxford.bsky.social and online, with keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social, Bonnie Evans, and Sally Shuttleworth; registration now open.
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Looking forward to this term's seminars, with talks by some of our students, @jennycrane.bsky.social and
@susannahwright.bsky.social - join us!
@susannahwright.bsky.social - join us!
April 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Looking forward to this term's seminars, with talks by some of our students, @jennycrane.bsky.social and
@susannahwright.bsky.social - join us!
@susannahwright.bsky.social - join us!
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First talk of the term at the Oxford Long 19thC seminar is a #HistChild one - @csloanox.bsky.social on children’s writing
First post of Oxford Long 19thC Seminar bluesky acct to announce our exciting upcoming programme on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing; with papers by @csloanox.bsky.social, @poldalmau.bsky.social, @rrgould.bsky.social, & Rashel Zemlinskaya - join us on Wednesday mornings!
April 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
First talk of the term at the Oxford Long 19thC seminar is a #HistChild one - @csloanox.bsky.social on children’s writing
📢 Call for Papers - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026, University of Angers)
Join for a captivating exploration of the rich histories, diverse experiences, and compelling representations of child travellers.
#histchild
Join for a captivating exploration of the rich histories, diverse experiences, and compelling representations of child travellers.
#histchild
CFP - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026,
University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social)
Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)
University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social)
Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)
April 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
📢 Call for Papers - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026, University of Angers)
Join for a captivating exploration of the rich histories, diverse experiences, and compelling representations of child travellers.
#histchild
Join for a captivating exploration of the rich histories, diverse experiences, and compelling representations of child travellers.
#histchild
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A productive team meeting in Wolverhampton today. Thanks to @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social for hosting! Good progress on the monograph, exhibition launch, and end-of-project conference.
#histed @ioe.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social
#histed @ioe.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A productive team meeting in Wolverhampton today. Thanks to @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social for hosting! Good progress on the monograph, exhibition launch, and end-of-project conference.
#histed @ioe.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social
#histed @ioe.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social