The spring issue of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth is here! Read this week's interview with Beth Marsden about her featured article and learn why "orphanage kids ruled": shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/voices-o...

The call for papers for SHCY's 2027 conference in Montreal is now live! Submissions are due September 15: www.shcy.org/news-announc...

SHCY is co-sponsoring the conference "When Filiation Is Not Self-Evident: Filiation and Violence, 20th–21st Centuries," hosted at the Centre for History, Sciences Po (CHSP), Paris, on November 4-6, 2026. Proposals are due by June 30, 2026: www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fr/...

‘Young children in monasteries, nunneries and cathedral schools were taught literacy through memorising the psalms, trained to utter complex thoughts and feelings through song.’ Ardis Butterfield on medieval psalters. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The call for papers for SHCY's 2027 conference in Montreal is now live! Submissions are due September 15: www.shcy.org/news-announc...

Save the Date: The next SHCY conference will be held at Concordia University in Montreal on June 28-30, 2027. Call for papers coming soon!

Wrote a tiny little blog for @shcy.bsky.social about a juke box that experienced a spiritual conversion in the 1950s. Check it out here! shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/conversi...

Call for papers for the 5th international conference of the Journal of Youth Studies. The conference will take place at the University of Porto (Portugal) in May 2027. Abstracts are due by 31 July 2026. jys-conference.eventqualia.net/en/2027/home/

CFP: The Othered Child: Roma (and) Childhood between History and Antigypsyist Fantasy — www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...

2.5 year postdoc opportunity at CoE NARS, Tampere University. The focus is on the history of everyday nationalism and we encourage applications dealing with the history of childhood and youth. Please distribute far and wide and encourage great scholars to apply. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

CFP—Safe and Sound: Caring for Children Displaced by Conflict During the 20th Century: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Reminder. Send me your applications!

Nominations for SHCY's 2026 Grace Abbott Book Prize, Fass-Sandin Article Prize, and Laura Lovett Dissertation Prize are now open! The deadline for submission is April 15, 2026. More information is available here: www.shcy.org/awards/curre...

The Society for the History of Children and Youth offers annual grants to scholarly event organizers. SHCY will award two $500 grants and one $1500 grant for events that take place in 2026–27. The application deadline is May 1. Find more information here: www.shcy.org/events1/even...

Nominations for SHCY's 2026 Grace Abbott Book Prize, Fass-Sandin Article Prize, and Laura Lovett Dissertation Prize are now open! The deadline for submission is April 15, 2026. More information is available here: www.shcy.org/awards/curre...

The Society for the History of Children and Youth offers annual grants to scholarly event organizers. SHCY will award two $500 grants and one $1500 grant for events that take place in 2026–27. The application deadline is May 1. Find more information here: www.shcy.org/events1/even...

Check out this week's interview on Digital Childhoods with Bianca Premo on the tragic case of the "youngest mother in the world" and what it teaches us about time, maturity, and Peruvian history: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/jumping-...

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...