Congratulations to @berrypillot.bsky.social for winning the #PollardPrize 2025! Berry's paper 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children’s Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool' will be published in Historical Research @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

I'm honoured to share that I've won the Pollard Prize 2025 and a publication offer with OUP's Historical Research. Thanks to @ihr.bsky.social, @oxfordacademic.bsky.social for this recognition and to the @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social convenors for affording me the opportunity to deliver my first paper.

Well done to our former student Berry Pillot de Chenecey @berrypillot.bsky.social who has just won the Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social (IHR) Pollard Prize for best postgraduate paper delivered in any IHR seminar series during the past year.

@ihrlifecycles.bsky.social strikes again with another rising star! Huge congrats to @berrypillot.bsky.social for winning the 2025 @ihr.bsky.social Pollard Prize for: 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children’s Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool.'🏆🙌🎉

Congratulations to one of our former speakers, @berrypillot.bsky.social, on being awarded the @ihr.bsky.social Pollard Prize for best paper given by a postgraduate student or researcher within one year of completing their PhD! Berry spoke last year on children's play during the Second World War

@berrypillot.bsky.social will also be speaking online on 25 June at 1pm @sheffielduni.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/no-place-t...

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...

@berrypillot.bsky.social just published a blog post based on her dissertation shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-curr...

Free CFRC online seminar from MA Public History student Berry Pillot de Chenecey on children's play during WW2! To join us on 25th June 1-2.30pm, you can book a free ticket via the link below. www.eventbrite.com/e/cfrc-semin...

Delighted that @berrypillot.bsky.social will be talking about her award-winning research on children's play in London and Liverpool in the Second World War as part of the @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social online seminar series on 25 June, 1-2.30 pm. See below to book your place!

🎉 Congratulations to @berrypillot.bsky.social, our Public History MA student, for winning the 2024 Batman Prize with her outstanding undergraduate dissertation at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social 🏆 👉 Read about Berry's award winning dissertation here: shorturl.at/kUAZr