We're delighted to share the programme for this term's History of Childhood seminar series. We can't wait to hear from all our fantastic speakers. Join us for our first session on Monday 20 October, at Magdalen College Oxford or online via Teams at 11am when we'll be thinking all about 'play'!

Today is the day for our annual Colloquium; we've had some opening words from lead organiser Julia Gustavsson highlighting how #HistChild can contribute to #HistScience, in particular through discussions on agency and the construction and operation of categories of age and development

Reminder that our Colloquium is a week today! Programme below, and there are still spaces for online attendance..

Also a reminder of our upcoming colloquium, Monday 23rd June online and in person at Magdalen College, Oxford (pls join the waiting list and we'll let you know asap if slots open up). 'Becoming Human? Childhood, Development and the Human Sciences'.

Join us in the Sophia Sheppard Room, Magdalen College, or online for what promises to be a fascinating paper.

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!

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.

Coming up at our seminar 11am on Monday 28/04 - exciting new research in the History of Childhood on Ayahs and Amahs, education in 19thC Shanghai, the Kindertransport, & children in the Bangladesh liberation war - join us in person/online

Looking forward to this term's seminars, with talks by some of our students, @jennycrane.bsky.social and
@susannahwright.bsky.social - join us!

Coming up on Monday, our last seminar of the term - in Oxford and online: Joe Leidy will be talking about Youth in Bourgeois Beirut, 1860-1880

Looking forward to the next session of our seminar. Idunn Victoria Rostøl, visiting us from Oslo this term, will be talking about "Conversion Narratives Featuring Romani in the Children’s Missionary Periodical Maaltrosten (1903-42)"; join us in person or online, Monday 10 Feb, 11-12.15 GMT

Excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on ‘Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences’. We welcome papers from any discipline or prof background & career stage; keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth; deadline 07/03/25

Looking forward to the History of Childhood seminar reading group, Monday 27/01 11am in person and online. We’ll be discussing
Olsen, Alexander, Miller, et al., ‘A Critical Conversation on Agency’, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, (Spring 2024) 169-187

Slight change in line-up - check out the updated programme here.

Happy New Year! Happy New Oxford History of Childhood Seminar Programme! Check out our exciting line-up (online and in person) for this term, featuring @jennycrane.bsky.social, @ivrostol.bsky.social, and more!

Exciting #HistEd #HistChild paper coming up next Mon 2nd Dec, Oxford History of Childhood Seminar (hybrid) Julia Gustavsson will speak on 'Play, privacy & intrusion in the domestic spaces of Child Study Research', drawing on doctoral research on the late 19th & early 20thC Child Study movement.