Today is the day for our annual Colloquium; we've had some opening words from lead organiser Julia Gustavsson highlighting how #HistChild can contribute to #HistScience, in particular through discussions on agency and the construction and operation of categories of age and development

Today! I'll be doing my best to post about the different papers as we go so do check back in!

Reminder that our Colloquium is a week today! Programme below, and there are still spaces for online attendance..

Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing. Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces. 12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew

TODAY!!! Join us

Also a reminder of our upcoming colloquium, Monday 23rd June online and in person at Magdalen College, Oxford (pls join the waiting list and we'll let you know asap if slots open up). 'Becoming Human? Childhood, Development and the Human Sciences'.

Very excited to remind you that on Monday 2nd June at 11am, @susannahwright.bsky.social will be speaking to the Seminar on her new work examining young people and CND in England in the 1950s and 1960s.

Really excited about our upcoming interdisciplinary conference on the 'Legacies of Section 28' in contemporary history, education and activism, which will be held at UCL on 6th and 7th June. For more details and to register for this free event: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Fascinating research on contemporary children’s play by scholars who’ve also done a huge amount to open up the Opie Collection @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social in Oxford

TODAY!! Hope to see many #HistChild people there

Coming up on Monday: @jennycrane.bsky.social talking about her exciting new book 'Writing "gifted children" in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945". 19/05/25, 11am, Sophia Sheppard Room Magdalen College, Oxford and online. Join us for what will definitely be a fascinating talk!

History of Childhood at the Oxford Long 19thC seminar this week

Excited to announce the programme for our 2025 Colloquium: Becoming Human? Childhood, Development and the Human Sciences, 23/06, 9.15-5.30, @magdalenoxford.bsky.social and online, with keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social, Bonnie Evans, and Sally Shuttleworth; registration now open.

Today!

Coming up at our seminar 11am on Monday 28/04 - exciting new research in the History of Childhood on Ayahs and Amahs, education in 19thC Shanghai, the Kindertransport, & children in the Bangladesh liberation war - join us in person/online

First talk of the term at the Oxford Long 19thC seminar is a #HistChild one - @csloanox.bsky.social on children’s writing

CFP - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026, University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social) Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)

AAC - Quand les enfants voyagent : Histoires, expériences et représentations des enfants voyageurs (26-27 mars 2026, Université d’Angers) - Organisé par Anne-Florence Quaireau et Tom Williams - Conférencier invité : Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social) A partager sans modération ! Merci :-)

And look out for the programme and registration information for our 2025 Colloquium: Becoming Human? Childhood, Development and the Human Sciences, Monday 23rd June in person and online, with keynotes from Bonnie Evans, @lauratisdall.bsky.social and Sally Shuttleworth - full details coming soon

Looking forward to this term's seminars, with talks by some of our students, @jennycrane.bsky.social and @susannahwright.bsky.social - join us!

Writings from children are central to this book - children were some of the earliest critics of ideas of giftedness, and fervently challenged biases in IQ testing, and assumptions that intelligence even mattered. @histchildoxford.bsky.social #HistEd #HistSTEM #skystorians @shcy.bsky.social

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...

Coming up on Monday, our last seminar of the term - in Oxford and online: Joe Leidy will be talking about Youth in Bourgeois Beirut, 1860-1880

Looks very exciting!

Today!!

Looking forward to the next session of our seminar. Idunn Victoria Rostøl, visiting us from Oslo this term, will be talking about "Conversion Narratives Featuring Romani in the Children’s Missionary Periodical Maaltrosten (1903-42)"; join us in person or online, Monday 10 Feb, 11-12.15 GMT

Check out the CfP for our colloquium on ´childhood development and the human sciences’ #HistEd #HistSTEM #skystorians

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

There's a bunch of us interested in 'care' as a category of analysis here in Oxford. Join queer political theorist Lucile Richard and I, if that's you. We're going to read some good stuff cgis.history.ox.ac.uk/article/2025...

Looking forward to the History of Childhood seminar reading group, Monday 27/01 11am in person and online. We’ll be discussing Olsen, Alexander, Miller, et al., ‘A Critical Conversation on Agency’, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, (Spring 2024) 169-187

Pleased to share our first editorial as the new editorial team for History of Education! @stephanieolsen.bsky.social @lottiehoare.bsky.social Our thanks again to outgoing editor Mark Freeman for his excellent work for the journal #histed @histedsocuk.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Calling all nominations for SHCY's Fass-Sandin Prize, honoring the best peer-reviewed journal article in English on the history of children, childhood, or youth (broadly construed) published in 2024! www.shcy.org/news-announc...

Slight change in line-up - check out the updated programme here.

Happy New Year! Happy New Oxford History of Childhood Seminar Programme! Check out our exciting line-up (online and in person) for this term, featuring @jennycrane.bsky.social, @ivrostol.bsky.social, and more!

Exciting #HistEd #HistChild paper coming up next Mon 2nd Dec, Oxford History of Childhood Seminar (hybrid) Julia Gustavsson will speak on 'Play, privacy & intrusion in the domestic spaces of Child Study Research', drawing on doctoral research on the late 19th & early 20thC Child Study movement.

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 The Children's History Society is now on Bluesky! 🎉 Follow us to explore the rich history of childhood and engage with our vibrant community of historians and enthusiasts.

We're excited to welcome Sumita Mukherjee (University of Bristol) to speak at our next seminar tomorrow (Monday 18th Nov) on Children of South Asian Heritage in Interwar Britain: Race, Religion, Class and Belonging. 11am Magdalen College Sophia Sheppard Room & online - see you there!