Prof. April Nowell announced that the 19th @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference will take place in Victoria, Canada next June - we hope you can join us! #SSCIP2027

Congratulations to @lindavilumets.bsky.social who won the student podium prize at the @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference in Oulu 🥳 #SSCIP2026

Group photo from the @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference in Oulu last week ... thanks to everyone who participated and made it a huge success (and apologies to anyone cut out of the photo!) #SSCIP2026

Some more pics from the @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference in Oulu last week

Last but not least, Povilas Blaževičius explores food and food waste as toys and their role in play @sscipchildhood.bsky.social #SSCIP2026

From the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic ... Lidija Balj looks at miniature objects and children in the Neolithic Vinča culture @sscipchildhood.bsky.social #SSCIP2026

Back into the deep past with Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer who explores the role of children in Palaeolithic flint knapping @sscipchildhood.bsky.social #SSCIP2026

Drawing on written and oral stories, Jurga Jonutyte now explores childhood experiences in 20th century Lithuania @sscipchildhood.bsky.social #SSCIP2026

Timo Ylimanu explores what it was like for children growing up near the River Kemi, Finland in the 20th century @sscipchildhood.bsky.social #SSCIP2026

After a tasty lunch, we are now back with Marisa Kuusisto who explores a criminal case of infanticide in 18th century Finland @sscipchildhood.bsky.social #SSCIP2026

Ending this morning's session is Nora Schuurman who explores childhood memories of everyday encounters with animals in post-war Finland @sscipchildhood.bsky.social #SSCIP2026

Chiara Tesi explores mother-infant relations in Medieval and Post-Medieval Italy @sscipchildhood.bsky.social #SSCIP2026

From Greece to Estonia...now Linda Vilumets discusses her study into non-adult coffins from post-medieval Estonia @sscipchildhood.bsky.social #SSCIP2026

Back after tea with Holly Winch who explores children's social worlds in early Greece @sscipchildhood.bsky.social #SSCIP2026

Marieke Ivarsson-Aalders takes us to Viking Age Gotland and explores what the bioarchaeological evidence can tell us about VA children @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

What did adolescents get up to in the Palaeolithic? April Nowell explores this topic in her talk @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

A murder mystery with Simon Mays starts today's session @sscipchildhood.bsky.social #SSCIP2026

Now Soni Soni explores child orphans and orphanages in Colonial India @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

What is joy? Ramunė Bleizgienė explores the meaning(s) of joy in children's textbooks from Lithuania @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Back after tea with Essi Kurki who is exploring children and disability in 20th century Finland @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Bianca Preda-Bǎlǎnica considers double (adult/child) burials in Yamna funerary practices @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Raquel Liceras-Garrido explores the experiences and agency of infants and children in Iron Age Iberia

Now to medieval Sweden with Emelie Jonsson who is exploring evidence for non-adult health and disease @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Javier Salcines-Montaña explores emotional and ethical considerations of working with the remains of infants @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Back after a tasty lunch, now with Marina Lourenço talking about a post-medieval necropolis in Lisbon @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Lots of great posters here at @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference #SSCIP2026 - each author gets the opportunity to present a brief summary of their work to the audience at the start of the poster session

Concluding the first set of talks @sscipchildhood.bsky.social is Sarah Baitzel exploring children's "family making" in the Andes

Csilla Libor now explores status, sorrow and grief in medieval and post-medieval Hungary @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Our journal Editor, Prof Eileen Murphy, now presents on the dead child in medieval Ireland @sscipchildhood.bsky.social #SSCIP2026

And we're off ... Sanna Lipkin, organiser of this year's annual @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference here in Oulu welcomes everyone to the event.

This time next week I'll be in Oulu, Finland for the annual @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference. Really looking forward to the great line up of talks and catching up with everyone. Let me know if you're going!

#MedievalSky Another major human aDNA study on late antique/early medieval mixing of populations in Europe. And perhaps a first in Nature? Peer-review included historians! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🗃️

Today is a big day for the early medieval period in terms of aDNA studies

📢 New Census of Welsh Nonconformist Chapels Launched! The @rcahmwales.bsky.social has launched a new census to record the current story of Welsh Nonconformist chapels and inform their future. Take part here: 🔗 zurl.co/cNO1n

Only five days left to get your abstract in for this year's @sscipchildhood.bsky.social annual conference in Oulu, Finland, 10th - 12th June Come to Finland - it'll be warm and sunny! 👇🏼 sscip.org.uk/sscip-2026-c...

Come to Oulu, Finland this summer for the annual conference of @sscipchildhood.bsky.social - CFP now open

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION OPEN FOR SSCIP 2026 📣 www.oulu.fi/en/events/ch...

🇫🇮 The 18th Annual @sscipchildhood.bsky.social Conference will be held at the University of Oulu, Linnanmaa, Finland 📅 Wednesday, June 10th to Friday, June 12th, 2026 📣The theme for the conference will be Children, Emotions, and Relations ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 15.2.26 www.oulu.fi/en/events/ch...

We are delighted to announce that next year @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference takes us to Oulu, Finland (June 10th-12th) where we will be hosted by Sanna Lipkin and colleagues

We announced the winner of this year's student presentation prize: Javier Salcines-Montana! Congratulations Javier on your fascinating talk about emotion and infant burial in the Bronze Age and Iron Age Iberia @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

To close day two of the conference @sscipchildhood.bsky.social we thanked the organisers of this year's conference Felix, Mathilde, Izzy and Halle

This year @sscipchildhood.bsky.social we've had a couple of amazing workshops; one on incremental isotope analyais with Julia Beaumont (aka Bradford Tooth Fairy) and Corinne Feuillatre

And finally, Marta Fernández-Viejo explored infant burial practices, health and disease in Valladolid, Spain @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Alba Navarro-Pérez looked at evidence for dental microwear in juvenile remains from Terrinches, Spain (sorry, I didn't get a picture of the speaker!)

Finally before a break, Marta García-Barreirro presented a possible case of hip dysplasia @sscipchildhood.bsky.social (sorry, I didn't get a picture of the speaker!)

@sscipchildhood.bsky.social Our very own Secretary, Creighton Avery, explored puberty in ancient Rome

Joining us online @sscipchildhood.bsky.social and asking us to 'Please think of the children' was Selene Rodríguez-Caraballo (sorry for the pic!)

@sscipchildhood.bsky.social Our very own journal editor Prof. Eileen Murphy spoke about the evidence of violent trauma on the remains of juveniles from medieval Ireland

The relationship between children and animals in the burial record was explored by Povilas Blazevicius @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Sonia Lopez-Chamizo and Elías Brossoise offered an interesting and powerful perspective on infant burial in Málaga @sscipchildhood.bsky.social