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.

A few eprints still available. Read how Boston "drawing book wars" linked to Ontario and how Froebelian idealism was foundation of proposed curriculum reform. Studies of children's drawing in US were basis of child studies and science of ed. Result? fable of progressivism/limits of empiricism.

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...

There's something about holding an actual copy of your book that makes it all feel real. Thanks to everyone who nourished this piece of work and thanks to @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social for making it look lovely. Official publication is in May. You can order a copy here: www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-y... 🗃️

We’re delighted to share details of ‘Nature Nurture: Edinburgh’s Childgarden Heritage, Cultures of Care, and Scottish Women’s Writing’, a symposium on 6 June, organised by our friends and colleagues @selcie.bsky.social! Get your free ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-nur... See you there!

Check out this piece I edited about fiery babies aka child arsonists 🔥🧒

Check out this week's interview on Digital Childhoods with Wendy Gamber discussing her new article on baby firebugs in the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth ! These late-nineteenth-century child arsonists loved playing with fire 🔥: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/fire-bab...

A great post by Christian Ydesen on the 1960s tug-of-war between #IBE & #OECD at #UNESCO. It highlights the tensions between humanistic education based on pedagogy & psychology and human capital theory based on systems, metrics & technocracy #HistEd digitalcollections.ibe-unesco.org/tensions-and...

April Fools! In this week's blog post at Digital Childhoods, read about three-year-old Muriel who in 1935 won her town's annual doll competition dressed up as the nurse from the Dionne Quintuplets. A delightful piece by Jim Marten: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/muriels-...

New book! I explore how voluntary organisations, psychologists, and policymakers have sought to identify "gifted children", and to mobilise these perceivedly hyperintelligent individuals to benefit (various visions of) "the world". . . global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The "unique syncretism of NASA toy ships and Soviet toy cosmonauts during the Cold War represented an unprecedented cultural crossover" in Uruguay, Diego Lascano writes in a new post on Digital Childhoods: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/a-soviet...

There's still time to send us your expressions of interest to be the next book reviews editor of History of Education! Deadline: March 15! @HistEdSocUK #histed

We're delighted to interview Laura Tisdall (@lauratisdall.bsky.social) & Maria Cannon (@mariacannon.bsky.social) about their co-edited collection - Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z: www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...

📢 Call for Abstracts! 📢 Children in the Archives – A special issue of Children & Society Contributions on participatory research with children in historical archives are welcome. Submit your abstract by 30 April 2025. More detail 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... #histchild

Helena Burniston reflects on Zadie Smith's novel "Swing Time" in a new article on Digital Childhoods: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/critical...

We (#histchild) now have a Starter Pack to help members connect! go.bsky.app/Q8pibDm If you’d like to become a member, sign up here: www.histchild.org (Membership runs from January to January.)

#histchild #historyofeducation #histmed Seeking articles/books on histories of ‘maladjusted’ children/ residential schools for children who had emotional/behavioural problems. Any refs/leads welcome and happy to reciprocate with refs I have

Out now: Jennifer Crane _'Gifted Children' in Britain and the World_, OUP #histchild #histed #openaccess oxford.ly/41aposx

SHCY offers grants to scholarly-event organizers every biennium, and will award two $500 grants and one $1500 grant for events that take place in 2025–26. Deadline for applications is March 1. More info here: www.shcy.org/events1/even...

Helena Burniston reflects on Zadie Smith's novel "Swing Time" in a new article on Digital Childhoods: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/critical...

Childhood history conference in Aarhus (DK)--theme "Children and Climate Change" (other topics welcome too). 📆Conference dates: 25-27 June 📆Deadline for abstracts: 4 April 👩‍🎓 Keynotes: @kalexand.bsky.social & @sheinalew.bsky.social conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025/c...

A wonderful piece this week on the blog! I mean.. look at him!!

New on Digital Childhoods, Francisca Tapia Álvarez discusses a postwar Japanese tin "Reading Boy" toy: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/a-good-r...

SHCY is seeking expressions of interest from prospective hosts for its Biennial Conference in June 2027: www.shcy.org/news-announc...

How fitting that this post features me circa 1992/3 as a little witch to help announce an exciting new professional chapter as co-Editor of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth with my wonderful friend, Holly White!

SHCY offers grants to scholarly-event organizers every biennium, and will award two $500 grants and one $1500 grant for events that take place in 2025–26. Deadline for applications is March 1. More info here: www.shcy.org/events1/even...