Starting my early modern module today with gender and marriage during the Reformation. Good topic to start with.

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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

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference! 📍Online via Zoom 🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026 ⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025 See our website for full details 👇 voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

BBC coverage of research using Northampton General Hospital's archive: Child hospital care dates from 18th Century: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The study itself is #OpenAccess: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #History #MedicalHistory

Working with oral histories of children who were in Cottage Homes in the early twentieth century. One old man said 'we had a sister too, I don't know where she went, we never saw her again'. These stories haven't actually changed as siblings are still split up today.

#Londonfoundlingmuseum Tokens in the street nearby tepresenting those ‘fallen women’ left with their babies in the hope of reclaiming them.

Kate Brooks has written a brilliant book on care and education systems from the nineteenth century. Do go and buy it! #histchild

When mothers admitted their children to the London Foundling Hospital, they often left tokens. Sometimes, just a cut of the child's clothing, as in this case. This child was reclaimed by its mother in 1760. Seeing the fabric in the archive this week was incredible.

Learn about girls in the workhouse, c.1880-1920, and the social concerns this prompted.  womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the... #GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHM2025

I had to buy my own copy, but happy to see this out in the world

My latest article is out in the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. If you want a copy but don't have access, let me know #histchild “There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950 muse.jhu.edu/article/938247

My latest article is out in the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. If you want a copy but don't have access, let me know #histchild “There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950 muse.jhu.edu/article/938247

I wrote this last year for my Women's History Network fellowship #womenshistorymonth womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the...

Bobbie Charlton and his mum Cissie photographed in Ashington in 1953.