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Scotland's Early Literature for Children Initiative 🦉 Edinburgh University working with Edinburgh Museum of Childhood 🤎 blogs.ed.ac.uk/selcie/about
🌿 NEW EXHIBITION 'Nurture through Nature with Children's Books' @ Museum of Edinburgh 1 May to 7 Sept 2025
Save the date! 💚 Very excited to announce this upcoming December symposium @EdinburghUni organised by @LoisMBurke & @_SELCIE_🦉 funded by the British Academy! More details & registration link to follow! #scottishlit #womenswriting #irishlit #childrensliterature
October 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Last Q&A of the day: discussing Victorian and Edwardian female writing and nature’s influence on it. Thanks to everyone who made (and still makes) this event so fabulous!
June 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Ainsley McIntosh delves into the engagement with nature from an intimate embodied perspective of Elizabeth Rae Keir, Edinburgh’s own poet, in her talk on 'Written in a storm: Care, Consolation, and Elizabeth Rae Keir'. 🌹
#selcie_project #universityofedinburgh
June 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Lois Burke introducing our audience to manuscript magazines handwritten by late-Victorian girls during her talk on 'Family Connections and Care for the Natural World in Isobel Wylie Hutchison’s Childhood Writing' 📚
#selcie_project #universityofedinburgh
June 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🌿 Elizabeth Darling exploring women's role in children's education during her presentation entitled 'To be a kindergartner is the perfect development of womanliness: Reflection on women's agency as social and urban reformers in Edwardian Edinburgh'.
#selcie_project #universityofedinburgh
June 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Jane Whinnett catching the audience with her talk on “The Little Gardener” - discussing Froebel training and education in early kindergartens #selcie_project #universityofedinburgh
June 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Lyn Stevens and Rina Teske answering questions about children’s interactions with fairytales and how fairies were depicted in children’s books
June 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Rina Teske is discussing children’s interaction with nature in schools and stories at home in her talk “From within and beyond the garden walls: Tracing the Green Thread in Scottish Nature Writing for Children, 1800-1900”
June 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
We are thrilled to have heard all about the rich collection of children's literature within the Museum of Childhood by our fantastic speaker Lyn Stevens!
#selcie_project 🦋
June 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The Nature Nurture: SELCIE Symposium is off to a good start! Our first speakers Lyn Stevens and Rina Teske are going to talk about children’s encounters with nature and nature in children’s writing
June 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
SAVE the DATE for a new SELCIE Symposium!🦉 6 June 2025, 12.00-17.00, University of Edinburgh. 'Nature Nurture: Edinburgh's Childgarden Heritage, Cultures of Care, and Scottish Women's Writing' 🌱 Details & booking info coming soon! #scottishliterature #children #nature #edimburgh @asls.org.uk
April 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Something for nature and fairytale lovers alike! 💚 A new blogpost for Valentine's Day tomorrow - Calvin Goh explores the magical poignancy of H.C. Andersen's nature worlds 🌲🌟 #naturetherapy #children #fairytales #books #museums #naturewriting
February 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Reading 'In the Woods' by M.K.M (1883) and looking at Giocomelli's springtime illustrations in Museum of Childhood book collection. Outside it's wintry but we can hear a blackbird's full-throated song! 💚🍃 #naturenurture #children #books £libraries #museums
February 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Only eleven sleeps till Christmas and the little bears are busy putting the finishing touches to their tree 🎄🧸 From Molly Brett's The Jumble Bears (1977) in Edinburgh's Museum of Childhood book collection #children #books #history #teddybears #museumlife
December 14, 2024 at 9:18 AM