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Society for the History of Children and Youth - est. 2001 - international and interdisciplinary - shcy.org
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THE WORLD OF CHILDREN: Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment, edited by Simone Lässig and Andreas Weiß is now available in paperback!

Find out more here: bit.ly/4qJzlYT

#History #CulturalStudies #EducationalStudies #GermanStudies
December 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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slowhistorian.bsky.social
Routledge Studies in the Histories of Children and Youth - expressions of interest welcome for book publications! All the details are here www.histchild.org/articles/pub... #histchild
Publish on the history of children and youth
A new book series with Routledge, co-edited by Dr Kristine Alexander and Dr Simon Sleight, is welcoming submissions.
www.histchild.org
January 7, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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I haven't been on here in a while for personal reasons, but hopping back on to say that my new book is available for download here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

If you are interested in #histchild #histed then there should be something here for you!
Children and Freedom in the Cape Colony
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January 14, 2026 at 6:38 AM
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Call for papers: Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World. for Gender & History
This is a call for papers for a special issue of gender and history on childhood, gender and crises. For more details email katie.barclay@mq.edu.au
January 20, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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In the first Digital Childhoods post of 2026, Valentina Boretti (vboretti.bsky.social) explores how candy and patriotism were connected in 1930s Shanghai: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/candies-...
Candies and Crises - Digital Childhoods
On 2nd October 1931, a couple of weeks after the so-called Mukden Incident staged by the Japanese as an excuse for invading Manchuria, readers of the newspaper Shenbao (Shanghai News) who looked at th...
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January 21, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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In the first Digital Childhoods post of 2026, Valentina Boretti (vboretti.bsky.social) explores how candy and patriotism were connected in 1930s Shanghai: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/candies-...
Candies and Crises - Digital Childhoods
On 2nd October 1931, a couple of weeks after the so-called Mukden Incident staged by the Japanese as an excuse for invading Manchuria, readers of the newspaper Shenbao (Shanghai News) who looked at th...
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January 21, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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📢Call for papers📢 for this year's Centre for the History of Childhood colloquium on Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood on 22 June 2026. Please send us your abstracts by midday on Friday 13 March. We look forward to hearing from you! More details here: www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-histo...
Call for papers for one-day colloquium: Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood. Monday 22nd June 2026. Centre for the History of Childhood, University of Oxford Magdalen College Oxford, UK, and online. We welcome papers that consider the theme of ‘Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood’ from a wide variety of perspectives. Areas that papers might explore include: Children’s experiences as recipients of charity and humanitarianism, including in the context of conflict and displacement. Children’s experiences as charitable and humanitarian actors and providers. Representations of childhood within charitable and humanitarian discourses. Institutions and communities that mobilise around charitable and humanitarian relief for children. Memories, intergenerational transmission, and legacies of charity and humanitarianism. Failures, limitations, and tensions resulting from charitable and humanitarian actions. Archives for, approaches to, and public engagement with the study of charity, humanitarianism, and childhood in the past. Conceptual connections between care, vulnerability, and age. We welcome papers from any disciplinary or professional background and career stage, including advanced undergraduate and graduate students. We encourage papers that engage with the diversity of children’s and young people’s experiences in any historical period and place. Please send abstracts of c. 250 words for a fifteen-minute paper and a brief bio to sian.pooley@magd.ox.ac.uk by midday on Friday 13th March 2026. We plan to offer in person and online participation, so please indicate your preference when submitting. Organising Committee: Charlotte Canizo, Joseph Leidy, Siân Pooley, Susannah Wright
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Congratulations to @susannequitmann.bsky.social for winning the 2025 SHCY Dissertation Award! Read in this week's interview about her innovative research about British child migrants and finding the child's voice: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/shcy-dis...
SHCY Dissertation Award Winner on British Child Migrants - Digital Childhoods
For this year, the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth has awarded their Dissertation Award to Dr. Susanne Quitmann for her thesis titled, “Reconceptualising Voice: An Exploratory Case Stud...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Do you work on #domesticabuse #divorce #economicabuse #childcustody in the third sector/policy? Then we have the workshop for you! 'Archives to Action' is a free 1-day workshop exploring the important role archival research can play in policy reform. Details 👇
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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lauratisdall.bsky.social
Maybe the term 'adulthood' is, in fact, not incredibly useful if we keep redefining it to mean a shorter & shorter section of our lifespans (without even getting into the problems with assuming changes in the brain map onto social roles...) www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #histchild #skystorians
Brain has five ‘eras’, scientists say – with adult mode not starting until early 30s
Study suggests brain development has four pivotal ‘turning points’ at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83
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November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Congratulations to Divya Kannan, this year's SHCY Grace Abbott Prize winner. Read more about her book, research, and thoughts in this week's interview on Digital Childhoods: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/poor-chi...
SHCY Grace Abbott Prize Winner on Poor Children and Christian Missions in Colonial Kerala - Digital Childhoods
For the year of 2025, the Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) has awarded the Grace Abbott Prize to Divya Kannan’s Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala publish...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Read in this week's Digital Childhoods post by Megan Buiocchi about a pin commemorating a British girl's overseas trip in 1934—and how the tour symbolized British women's new imperial roles: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/token-of...
A Token of a Young Imperial Traveler - Digital Childhoods
Beginning in 1928, the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women (SOSBW), an off-shoot of the Overseas Settlement Committee, launched four educational and international tours for schoolgirl...
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October 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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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
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October 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
shcy.bsky.social
Pre-teen writing etiquette goes way back! Check out the wonderful images in this week's post by Danni Cai on Digital Childhoods to learn more about how Chinese youth navigated letter-writing: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/fun-read...
Fun Reading for Refinement: A Preteens’ Guide to Letter Writing - Digital Childhoods
Growing up with strict parents who value good manners, I have always had a close affinity with the history of manners in my journey of historical discovery. My attention is thus naturally drawn to var...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Cover of my book We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up In Cold War Britain. The cover is an eerie blue-green and the words melt into an image of a group of children confronting the camera at a festival in Coventry in 1980.
September 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Archiving childhood is all about time! Read Mahshid Mayar's insightful take on children's temporality in this week's interview on Digital Childhoods: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/consider...
Consider Children's Temporality, 'Playes' - Digital Childhoods
In 2023, Mahshid Mayar published the insightful article “‘Playes Print the Letter’: American Child(hoods) as Archival Present/ce” in the Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth. In it, she expl...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Call for conference papers:

"Child's Play in Popular Culture: History, representations and consumption."

Abstracts are due by 30 November.

The conference will take place online on 30 April - 1 May 2026.

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...
cfp | call for papers
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August 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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How much did you cherish your tamagotchi? In this week's post on Digital Childhoods, Kacey Doran analyzes care play within video games to question gender dynamics and shooter game discourse. Check out the wonderful illustrations by @bevscomics.bsky.social! shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/care-play/
Care Play: More Ways Young People Played Kindly with Videogames - Digital Childhoods
Follow along to read the entire comic strip by Bevs Boredom Comics! Growing up the in the 1990s and 2000s, the first game that I played and completed with my sister by my side was The Legend of Zelda:...
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September 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Here’s a short article I did for Digital Childhoods on homemade toys in Ireland, with some fabulous sketches and notes from the Schools’ Folklore Collection
August 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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This week @larafreidenfelds.bsky.social argues that in a post Roe vs Wade world “Women who lose pregnancies, even before viability, are targeted in ways that strongly resemble early modern infanticide investigations.” nursingclio.org/2025/08/20/m...
Miscarriage is a Crime Again
In 1650, a young, single English servant named Anne Greene miscarried into the privy and did not tell anyone. We know her story because she was arrested for infanticide, convicted despite exonerati…
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August 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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In this week's article on Digital Childhoods—penned by @meganmcauley.bsky.social—read about twentieth-century Irish schoolchildren who took meticulous notes on toys they crafted themselves: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/homemade...
Homemade Toys in Twentieth-Century Ireland - Digital Childhoods
Throughout twentieth-century Ireland, social, political, and commercial concerns shaped public discourses about children’s play. Parents were scrutinised for their ability to provide children with the...
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August 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Missed SHCY's 2025 biennial meeting? You can watch Moira Herbst deliver the keynote address here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wD6...
Moira Herbst - SHCY 2025 Conference Keynote
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July 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Who really won the Cold War? From Soviet “wooden bicycles” to child-led coding, this week's article on Digital Childhoods by Margaret Mih Tillman (@margaretmihtillman.bsky.social) rethinks tech supremacy through the eyes of children's education: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/wooden-b...
Wooden Bicycles: Children’s Coding in the PC Era - Digital Childhoods
Who won the Cold War? At the turn of the millennium, the United States seemed victorious in terms of technological development. As the Chinese magazine The World of Technology and Trade marveled in 19...
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August 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Missed SHCY's 2025 biennial meeting? You can watch Moira Herbst deliver the keynote address here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wD6...
Moira Herbst - SHCY 2025 Conference Keynote
YouTube video by Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY)
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July 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM