Slow Historian (Dr Simon Sleight)
@slowhistorian.bsky.social
Considered thinking - Sustainable scholarship - Artisanal histories.
Reading / writing / teaching / mentoring. @King's College London.
Occasional history musings on cities, memory, youth, Australia.
Reading / writing / teaching / mentoring. @King's College London.
Occasional history musings on cities, memory, youth, Australia.
Well done indeed, Berry!
@ihrlifecycles.bsky.social strikes again with another rising star! Huge congrats to @berrypillot.bsky.social for winning the 2025 @ihr.bsky.social Pollard Prize for: 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children’s Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool.'🏆🙌🎉
October 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Well done indeed, Berry!
*Call for papers!* The Children’s History Society, Fifth Biennial Conference
'Space, Place, Belonging and Identity in Intergenerational Histories of Childhood and Youth '
To be held at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026.
Details here: www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
'Space, Place, Belonging and Identity in Intergenerational Histories of Childhood and Youth '
To be held at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026.
Details here: www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society
University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026
www.histchild.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
*Call for papers!* The Children’s History Society, Fifth Biennial Conference
'Space, Place, Belonging and Identity in Intergenerational Histories of Childhood and Youth '
To be held at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026.
Details here: www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
'Space, Place, Belonging and Identity in Intergenerational Histories of Childhood and Youth '
To be held at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026.
Details here: www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
More excellent work from Berry - all welcome to join this event
@berrypillot.bsky.social will also be speaking online on 25 June at 1pm @sheffielduni.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/no-place-t...
No Place to be a Child? | Children's Play during the Second World War
Berry Pillot de Chenecey joins us for an online seminar on the persistence and peculiarities of children's play in WW2.
www.eventbrite.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
More excellent work from Berry - all welcome to join this event
Reposted by Slow Historian (Dr Simon Sleight)
@berrypillot.bsky.social just published a blog post based on her dissertation shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-curr...
The Currency of Wartime Childhood - Digital Childhoods
During the Second World War, the material worlds and realities of children were transformed entirely, from the everyday spaces they occupied to the objects they encountered on their way to school. Alt...
shcydigitalchildhoods.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
@berrypillot.bsky.social just published a blog post based on her dissertation shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-curr...
Join us this evening for Emma's talk, which promises to reveal a hidden and often very difficult history #histchild
Join us tomorrow evening to hear Emma Bradley tell us how "post-war Mother and Baby Homes systemically addressed young unmarried motherhood through age-coded institutional practices".
We'll be online and at the IoE. Follow the link for more details.
www.history.ac.uk/events/it-yo...
We'll be online and at the IoE. Follow the link for more details.
www.history.ac.uk/events/it-yo...
‘It is the young unmarried mother who goes into a Mother and Baby Home’: child mothers and institutional cultures of containment
www.history.ac.uk
June 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Join us this evening for Emma's talk, which promises to reveal a hidden and often very difficult history #histchild
#histchild folks will be interested in this! All welcome
June 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#histchild folks will be interested in this! All welcome
Next week's 'Life-Cycles' seminar addresses Mother and Baby Homes: ‘It is the young unmarried mother who goes into a Mother and Baby Home’: child mothers and institutional cultures of containment
Online & room 537, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way www.history.ac.uk/events/mothe... ALL WELCOME!
Online & room 537, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way www.history.ac.uk/events/mothe... ALL WELCOME!
www.history.ac.uk
June 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Next week's 'Life-Cycles' seminar addresses Mother and Baby Homes: ‘It is the young unmarried mother who goes into a Mother and Baby Home’: child mothers and institutional cultures of containment
Online & room 537, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way www.history.ac.uk/events/mothe... ALL WELCOME!
Online & room 537, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way www.history.ac.uk/events/mothe... ALL WELCOME!
It was a real pleasure to be involved with this, helping Will to trace his family story. Will was also very affable, and the BBC production team super impressive! What a story, too...!
Last night, our colleague Simon Sleight @slowhistorian.bsky.social was on #WhoDoYouThinkYouAre with Will Young! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Who Do You Think You Are? - Series 22: 7. Will Young
Will Young learns about his grandfather’s time as a prisoner of war in World War II. Delving further back, Will finds a connection to one of medieval history’s biggest villains and a king.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
It was a real pleasure to be involved with this, helping Will to trace his family story. Will was also very affable, and the BBC production team super impressive! What a story, too...!
Another great crop of third-year UG dissertations, all now marked! Here is a selection of what came in for the module 'Young Lives: Growing Up in Liverpool, London, Melbourne and Sydney, 1870-1970' at King's College London. Lots of pioneering work among the group :) #histchild
May 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Another great crop of third-year UG dissertations, all now marked! Here is a selection of what came in for the module 'Young Lives: Growing Up in Liverpool, London, Melbourne and Sydney, 1870-1970' at King's College London. Lots of pioneering work among the group :) #histchild
Many congratulations to Dr Elena Patrizi for the viva defence of her PhD thesis here in Switzerland! It was a pleasure to be part of the panel and to participate in the public discussion of this important work, which passes with the highest honours in the Swiss system, summa cum laude #histchild
March 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Many congratulations to Dr Elena Patrizi for the viva defence of her PhD thesis here in Switzerland! It was a pleasure to be part of the panel and to participate in the public discussion of this important work, which passes with the highest honours in the Swiss system, summa cum laude #histchild
Deserved recognition of a terrific piece of work! Well done, Berry!
Congrats to Berry Pillot de Chenecy who was awarded the 2024 Batman Prize for her undergraduate dissertation 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children's Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool' under the supervision of @slowhistorian.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Deserved recognition of a terrific piece of work! Well done, Berry!
Join us this evening in person or online for our latest seminar paper addressing age as a category of historical analysis
Tomorrow! 18th February, 17:30 to 19:00. Join us to hear Berry Pillot de Chenecey present 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children’s Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool'. We'll be at Senate House but you can also join us online.
No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children’s Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool.
www.history.ac.uk
February 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Join us this evening in person or online for our latest seminar paper addressing age as a category of historical analysis
Next week's 'Life-Cycles' IHR seminar with Tahaney Alghrani will be online - details and registration here. All welcome! www.history.ac.uk/events/waywa...
Wayward Girls in Victorian and Edwardian England, Pathways in and out of Juvenile Institutions,1854-1920
www.history.ac.uk
January 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Next week's 'Life-Cycles' IHR seminar with Tahaney Alghrani will be online - details and registration here. All welcome! www.history.ac.uk/events/waywa...
The Children's History Society (#histchild) now has a Starter Pack to help members connect! go.bsky.app/Q8pibDm If you would like to become a member, head here www.histchild.org (Membership runs from January-January each year.) Happy New Year to one and all!
January 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Children's History Society (#histchild) now has a Starter Pack to help members connect! go.bsky.app/Q8pibDm If you would like to become a member, head here www.histchild.org (Membership runs from January-January each year.) Happy New Year to one and all!
Really looking forward to reading this new book edited by history chums Maria Cannon and Laura Tisdall. It's free to access via the link (hooray!) and set to be launched in London at the IHR in January :) Congrats to all the authors! uolpress.co.uk/book/adultho...
Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z - University of London Press
Adulthood has a history. This book explores how concepts of adulthood have changed over time in Britain and the United States from 1350 to the present day through eleven case studies. Ideas of adultho...
uolpress.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Really looking forward to reading this new book edited by history chums Maria Cannon and Laura Tisdall. It's free to access via the link (hooray!) and set to be launched in London at the IHR in January :) Congrats to all the authors! uolpress.co.uk/book/adultho...
Reposted by Slow Historian (Dr Simon Sleight)
FINAL REMINDER:
Conference 2025 - Historicizing Experiences - Call for Papers deadline on Friday 29 November.
Please find the full CfP and more info on the conference website events.tuni.fi/historyofexp... @hexhandbook.bsky.social @ttepora.bsky.social @raisatoivo.bsky.social
Conference 2025 - Historicizing Experiences - Call for Papers deadline on Friday 29 November.
Please find the full CfP and more info on the conference website events.tuni.fi/historyofexp... @hexhandbook.bsky.social @ttepora.bsky.social @raisatoivo.bsky.social
Call for Papers | History of Experience | Tampere Universities
Historicizing Experiences Seventh Annual Conference March 10-12, 2025 Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences Tampere University, Finland
events.tuni.fi
November 26, 2024 at 9:51 AM
FINAL REMINDER:
Conference 2025 - Historicizing Experiences - Call for Papers deadline on Friday 29 November.
Please find the full CfP and more info on the conference website events.tuni.fi/historyofexp... @hexhandbook.bsky.social @ttepora.bsky.social @raisatoivo.bsky.social
Conference 2025 - Historicizing Experiences - Call for Papers deadline on Friday 29 November.
Please find the full CfP and more info on the conference website events.tuni.fi/historyofexp... @hexhandbook.bsky.social @ttepora.bsky.social @raisatoivo.bsky.social
*Pleased to report that The Children’s History Society is now on Bluesky!* 🎉 Follow us at @histchild.bsky.social to stay updated on all things related to the history of children, childhood and youth. As before feel free to use #histchild to flag relevant interests. Also check out www.histchild.org.
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November 22, 2024 at 11:38 PM
*Pleased to report that The Children’s History Society is now on Bluesky!* 🎉 Follow us at @histchild.bsky.social to stay updated on all things related to the history of children, childhood and youth. As before feel free to use #histchild to flag relevant interests. Also check out www.histchild.org.