Calls for submissions for SHCY's Grace Abbott Book Prize, Fass-Sandin Article Prize, and Laura Lovett Dissertation Prize will be coming soon—stay tuned!

Wrote a few words in @shcy.bsky.social's online exhibit Childish Things last week. Thanks @layla-koch.bsky.social for your helpful comments!

This week on Digital Childhoods, Idunn Rostøl (@ivrostol.bsky.social) shares about Norwegian children's mission to Romani children and how this shaped ideas of nation and childhood. shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/collecti...

In this week's Digital Childhoods post, read about Dr. Holly N.S. White's exciting new public history project on the history of childhood: "The Childish Professor"!

Call for symposium papers: "Digital Geographies of Childhood and Youth." The international symposium will take place at Heidelberg University (Germany) from 22 to 24 June. Among the organizers is our member, Peter Kraftl. Abstracts are due by 8 March. www.transient-spaces.org/cfp-digital-...

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW The Lion and the Unicorn 48.2, Apr 2024 #S2O #OpenAccess at Project MUSE tinyurl.com/bdd4ct7v #S2O#OpenAccessONTRIBUTORS
 Rebekah Fitzsimmons, Vanessa Joosen, Paavo Van der Eecken, Brianna Anderson, Amy Webster, Yi Li, Melissa Terras, Yongning Li, Yauheniya Lekarevich, Mary Rizzo & more

Next week at the 'Life-cycles' history seminar in Bloomsbury, this paper from Magdalene Klassen (Johns Hopkins University): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/.... All welcome

In this week's Digital Childhoods post, read about Dr. Holly N.S. White's exciting new public history project on the history of childhood: "The Childish Professor"!

THE WORLD OF CHILDREN: Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment, edited by Simone Lässig and Andreas Weiß is now available in paperback! Find out more here: bit.ly/4qJzlYT #History #CulturalStudies #EducationalStudies #GermanStudies

Routledge Studies in the Histories of Children and Youth - expressions of interest welcome for book publications! All the details are here www.histchild.org/articles/pub... #histchild

I haven't been on here in a while for personal reasons, but hopping back on to say that my new book is available for download here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... If you are interested in #histchild #histed then there should be something here for you!

Call for papers: Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World. for Gender & History

In the first Digital Childhoods post of 2026, Valentina Boretti (vboretti.bsky.social) explores how candy and patriotism were connected in 1930s Shanghai: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/candies-...

In the first Digital Childhoods post of 2026, Valentina Boretti (vboretti.bsky.social) explores how candy and patriotism were connected in 1930s Shanghai: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/candies-...

📢Call for papers📢 for this year's Centre for the History of Childhood colloquium on Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood on 22 June 2026. Please send us your abstracts by midday on Friday 13 March. We look forward to hearing from you! More details here: www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-histo...

Congratulations to @susannequitmann.bsky.social for winning the 2025 SHCY Dissertation Award! Read in this week's interview about her innovative research about British child migrants and finding the child's voice: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/shcy-dis...

Do you work on #domesticabuse #divorce #economicabuse #childcustody in the third sector/policy? Then we have the workshop for you! 'Archives to Action' is a free 1-day workshop exploring the important role archival research can play in policy reform. Details 👇 www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Maybe the term 'adulthood' is, in fact, not incredibly useful if we keep redefining it to mean a shorter & shorter section of our lifespans (without even getting into the problems with assuming changes in the brain map onto social roles...) www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #histchild #skystorians

Congratulations to Divya Kannan, this year's SHCY Grace Abbott Prize winner. Read more about her book, research, and thoughts in this week's interview on Digital Childhoods: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/poor-chi...

Read in this week's Digital Childhoods post by Megan Buiocchi about a pin commemorating a British girl's overseas trip in 1934—and how the tour symbolized British women's new imperial roles: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/token-of...

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

Pre-teen writing etiquette goes way back! Check out the wonderful images in this week's post by Danni Cai on Digital Childhoods to learn more about how Chinese youth navigated letter-writing: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/fun-read...

Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Archiving childhood is all about time! Read Mahshid Mayar's insightful take on children's temporality in this week's interview on Digital Childhoods: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/consider...

Call for conference papers: "Child's Play in Popular Culture: History, representations and consumption." Abstracts are due by 30 November. The conference will take place online on 30 April - 1 May 2026. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...

How much did you cherish your tamagotchi? In this week's post on Digital Childhoods, Kacey Doran analyzes care play within video games to question gender dynamics and shooter game discourse. Check out the wonderful illustrations by @bevscomics.bsky.social! shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/care-play/

Here’s a short article I did for Digital Childhoods on homemade toys in Ireland, with some fabulous sketches and notes from the Schools’ Folklore Collection

This week @larafreidenfelds.bsky.social argues that in a post Roe vs Wade world “Women who lose pregnancies, even before viability, are targeted in ways that strongly resemble early modern infanticide investigations.” nursingclio.org/2025/08/20/m...

In this week's article on Digital Childhoods—penned by @meganmcauley.bsky.social—read about twentieth-century Irish schoolchildren who took meticulous notes on toys they crafted themselves: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/homemade...

Missed SHCY's 2025 biennial meeting? You can watch Moira Herbst deliver the keynote address here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wD6...

Who really won the Cold War? From Soviet “wooden bicycles” to child-led coding, this week's article on Digital Childhoods by Margaret Mih Tillman (@margaretmihtillman.bsky.social) rethinks tech supremacy through the eyes of children's education: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/wooden-b...

Missed SHCY's 2025 biennial meeting? You can watch Moira Herbst deliver the keynote address here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wD6...

Did you know skateboards go back to the early 60s? In this week's blog post on Digital Childhoods, James Howard discusses the 'super surfer' that made parents and journalists clutch their pearls in horror: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/super-su...

New on Digital Childhoods, read about the overlooked experience of Vietnamese refugee children in rural America. Thank you to Noah Adebanjo for sharing this piece with us! shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/between-...

We are very pleased to announce that Juandrea Bates has been awarded the @shcy.bsky.social's 2025 Fass-Sandin Article Prize in English for her chapter in 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 (2024), ed. @petergossage.bsky.social & Lisa Moore! www.shcy.org/awards/shcy-...

Starting today!

This week on the blog Sabine Fruhstuck shares a quintessential Japanese childish thing: the randsel. Read more about this iconic backpack here: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/carrying...

In this week's blog post, Berry Pillot de Chenecey takes us to children in London during World War II who used shrapnel pieces for their play and imagination: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-curr...

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Society for the History of Children and Youth's biennial conference, which is being held on Zoom from June 26-28 2025. To register, click here: tinyurl.com/4ypduv4r

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Society for the History of Children and Youth's biennial conference, which is being held on Zoom from June 26-28 2025. To register, click here: tinyurl.com/4ypduv4r

This week on the blog, check out this fun interview with Jennifer Crane (@jennycrane.bsky.social) all about her fascinating new book on the rise, fall, and legacy of gifted children in the UK and the world: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-rise...

This week on the blog, check out this fun interview with Jennifer Crane (@jennycrane.bsky.social) all about her fascinating new book on the rise, fall, and legacy of gifted children in the UK and the world: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-rise...

Registration and program information for the 2025 SHCY Conference will be available soon! The cost to attend will be $50.

shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-rise... Interview about my new book - with thanks for great questions from Hannah Stamler and Layla Koch 📕🙏 @shcy.bsky.social

Looking for a PhD candidate to study how first names convey information about parental values and beliefs in historical Europe (circa 1750-1950). Please share the info with potential candidates: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... (deadline for applying: June 1st)

In this week's blog post on Digital Childhoods, Lane Baker takes us all the way back to 1510 to explore Romani children in a Gothic tapestry: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/threads-...

In this week's post on Digital Childhoods, Marlo Avidon (@marloavidon.bsky.social) explores early modern children's shoes and why we still find so many of them hidden in walls: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/shoes-sh...