Did you take part in a mock election at your UK school or college between 1983 and 2001? Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain! Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f

Another plug for this - I'd love to hear your school mock election memories!

Can anyone help me identify these schoolgirls who visited Parliament in July 1909? I'm writing about them in my book and would LOVE to be able to say who they are! www.npg.org.uk/collections/... #histed #histchild

Did you take part in a mock election at your UK school or college between 1983 and 2001? Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain! Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f

Excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on ‘Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences’. We welcome papers from any discipline or prof background & career stage; keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth; deadline 07/03/25

This year's Centre for the History of Childhood colloquium is on my favourite topic Children & politics! Monday 24 June at Magdalen College Oxford & online. Send us your abstracts by midday Friday 8 March

Just released online, my Oct 2023 Ewen Green Memorial Lecture, on the labour of disabled people in Britain, 1944-1995. So pleased to be able to share this with folks who couldn't be there in person. #DisHist www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZn...

Jack Doyle and I put together a reading list for a workshop on Teaching Trans History that we ran at the Oxford History Faculty last week (featuring Kit Heyam as our wonderful guest speaker). Here's the reading list! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Slow to the party but hi! Just a postdoc trying to rebuild a semblance of online community 👋 (& spare my non-academic friends from any more complaints about my badly timed BL research plans this week!)