A big hello - and thank you! - to all our new followers! 👋🧒 Here’s a reminder to follow us on our other social media platforms to stay up-to-date with our work: Facebook: The Children’s History Society Instagram: @histchildsociety X: @histchild

Only a week left to register for the Children's History Society @histchild.bsky.social conference on Space, Place, Belonging and Identity in Intergenerational Histories of Childhood and Youth. Register by 1 June to join us at the University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social on 1-3 July!

🧒 Our website detailing information about our upcoming conference “Space, Place, Belonging and Identity in Intergenerational Histories of Childhood and Youth” is now LIVE!

PEEP PEEP! New post on Thomas the Tank Engine, the 1946 book by the Rev W. Awdry that was the second entry in the Railway Series, and introduced its most iconic character. A 🧵 on how he and the book fitted into this emerging fictional moral universe. #skystorians 🗃️

A fantastic full-time salaried Postdoctoral Researcher Opportunity has just gone live from Tampere University on the history of nationalism and childhood. International applications are encouraged. Check it out! 🧒👧 tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

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_...

Sharing on behalf of @newcastleuni the Call for Papers for their upcoming conference “Caring Communities: Rethinking Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-Present”, taking place at Newcastle University on Thursday 3 and Friday 4 of September 2026.

Call for articles: "Putting Babies at the Centre: Pedagogies of Care." For a special issue of the Journal of Childhood, Education & Society, co-edited by our member Jane Dorrian. Abstracts are due by 15 November. www.j-ces.com/index.php/jc...

📣 Call for Papers! Macquarie University and the Society for the History of Emotions invite paper proposals for their upcoming conference, held both in-person, hybrid and online at Macquarie University, Sydney on Thursday, 26th November 2026.

Hello!👋We’re back! Excited to launch a fundraising campaign for ’That Wilder Bond’ book on childhood/nature/environment for Intergenerational dialogue. To be donated to libraries. Help support here: www.spacehive.com/thatwilderbond 🐞🌿🦋🌱🦉 museumofchildhood.ie/that-wilder-... #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland

📣 Extended deadline! Get your abstracts in while you can!

CfP for @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference just dropped! Organised by @geogdurham.bsky.social 's Leah Edwards and myself: The Family as Site of Environmental Politics. Please share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you're working on any aspect of 'The Family as Site of Environmental Politics', do consider sending in an abstract!

Call for papers: Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World. for Gender & History

We’re thrilled to share this AHRC-funded PhD opportunity from Swansea University @swanseauni “Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to present” explores how Wales developed its own distinct stance of child’s play through the examination of postwar Welsh childhoods.

📣DEADLINE EXTENDED! We are delighted to announce that we're extending the deadline for applications to our 50th anniversary conference! At this busy time, we want as many people as possible to have the chance to apply. Now accepting applications until 23 Jan! socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

📢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...

🚨 Tomorrow! Join Manon Pignot and the Family, Women and Children History Network in this online workshop “Génération Grande Guedes: French Children’s Experiences of the First World War” TOMORROW 14:00-15:30 EST. Simply follow this zoom link to attend! zoom.us/j/91000559151

🚨 Extended Deadline! The Call for Papers for our Fifth Biennial Conference at the University of Sheffield have been EXTENDED until Monday 22nd December! Get your proposals in while you still can! Our full Call for Papers here: www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...

The @histchild.bsky.social conference is coming to the @sheffielduni.bsky.social in July 2026. Call for papers has been extended until Monday 22nd December. Please share - especially with research students and ECRs! www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...

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

There's still time to share your school mock election memories for this exciting project on young people & democracy! @histchild.bsky.social @shcy.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social

Get ready for ISCHE 2026! The SWG History of Knowledge in the History of Education invites paper proposals for two panels: ✍️ Knowledge & Emotions in the History of Education 📚 General theme: Knowledge + Education Full CFP: shorturl.at/4UNtC Submit by 15 Jan 2026 via: www.conftool.org/ische47

Deadline to submit an abstract to the always fabulous @histchild.bsky.social conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026, coming up on 14th December!* #histchild #histyouth #skystorians *this is also a reminder to myself www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...

🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford! We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History. This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance” Deadline: 17 Dec 2025 Please share widely!

📣 Event! Kindertransport: New Discoveries Online and in-person | 7 December 1:00-3:30

📖 New Publication! Published by Siostry Krajewskie Press, “The Dolls We Left Behind: A Child’s Wartime Journey from Poland to Persia” tells the true story of Eugenia Marta Krajewska, deported from Poland as a child and forced to work in a Soviet Siberian labour camp.

Investigating Irish & Scottish Women Writers of Children’s Literature 12 Dec @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social – free Exploring regional & national identities in children’s literature c.1750–1940 – an era of major cultural & political upheaval in Ireland & Scotland www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat...

📣 Check out this upcoming online workshop hosted by the Research of the Interdisciplinary Childhood Studies Team at the University of Warsaw. Follow this link to access the workshop on Zoom and add the event to your calendar: us06web.zoom.us/j/82529424609

📣 Seminar Tonight! Join Professor Lynne Vallone and a team from Queen Mary’s Women’s Health Research Unit for tonight’s seminar “The Foetus and Birthing Tools Across Disciplines” 👶 The seminar takes place in-person at the Queen’s Building, Queen Mary University of London from 5:00-6:30pm tonight!

📣 Call for Papers! 📣 Check out the call for papers for our Biennial Conference in Sheffield! Deadline for proposals is 14 December! www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...

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

📣 New Blog Post! We were delighted to welcome the Seen and Heard project run by Investing in Children to our conference at Newcastle University last July. Seen and Heard, a child-led group aged between 7-15, identified a lack of representation of children and young people in…

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Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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📢 CHS Social Media Update! The CHS sends hearty thanks to @skrtepe.bsky.social for the excellent stewardship of the Society's social media accounts these past three years, and wishes him very well with new ventures.

#Skystorians! Join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social‬ team online on 19 June @12:30 to explore how historical researchers (across all periods) can make themselves more visible to UK policy makers. For details👉 www.history.ac.uk/events/historical-research-and-policy-making & 🧵

📚 Excited to announce the upcoming book Yet: A Story of Triumph Over Childhood Separation, Trauma, and Disability, written by ‪@helenpdrabble.bsky.social‬. Sign up for the Kickstarter pre-launch campaign to be notified when it goes live! #histchild www.kickstarter.com/projects/hel...

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!

🎓New free online PGR Session! Wednesday 14th of May @ 5-6pm – Tom Cryer on ‘Schooling for Freedom: Reflections on African American Education and the Struggle for Black Citizenship in the American South, c.1867-1947’. Access the link here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr-seminars/ #histed #edusky

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

Want to become a Social Media Officer? If so, there's a great opportunity from our friends at @histchild.bsky.social below! #histed #edusky 👇

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.

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

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