Great news and Dr Tahaney Alghrani will be speaking at this summer's Children's History Society conference!

I'm very excited to share the front cover of Designed for Play, my book on the convoluted history of the playground, due out in July with University of London Press. It will be free to read online #playgroundhistories

Looking forward to our IHR Life Cycles seminar on 18th June! Dr Isabelle Carter
and Dr Heather Ellis  talking about 'Oral History and Intergenerational Perspectives of the UK School Meals Service, 1950-2005'. #histed Education@Sheffield ICHRE at UCL IOE WLV Education history.ac.uk/events/oral-hi…

Dr Sarah Levin-Richardson University of Washington in conversation with me Manchester CA Tues May 7th 6pm BST. 'Enslaved Children in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii: A Conversation'.
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Tuesday 7th. May, 17:30 - 19:00BST. Join us online to hear Zara Christmas present 'A Crisis in the Family’? Pregnant teenagers and their parents in England, 1979-2010.'
Everyone is welcome, just register through the link.
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Next Tuesday, 17:30 - 19:00 BST, through Zoom, Zara Christmas will bring us 'A Crisis in the Family’? Pregnant teenagers and their parents in England, 1979-2010.'
To join, register here: history.ac.uk/events/a-crisi…
Everyone is welcome!

Are you interested in researching the history of girls' & women's magazine reading in the 20th century? I'm looking for PhD researchers to work on the Femorabilia LJMU collection. Applications for Liverpool John Moores University studentships open - please contact me to discuss! ljmu.ac.uk/research/phd-s…

A good meeting today planning our Festival of the Mind event in Sheffield with the Festival of the Mind team! We are making a short #schoolmealmemories documentary film with our creative partner sort of...films & partner schools #FOTM2024 #histed WLV Education Education@Sheffield ICHRE at UCL IOE

Brilliant NEW blog post by Julia Gustavsson on her DPhil research on the child study movement! Fascinating insights into scientists' and teachers' conflicting claims of expertise about children in the late 19th and 20th centuries history.ox.ac.uk/article/far-be…

Feminism and the Politics of Childhood offers an innovative and critical exploration of perceived commonalities and conflicts between women and children and, more broadly, between various forms of feminism and the politics of childhood. #OpenAccess : ow.ly/kCkh30sB8X9

A podcast from our archives; very relevant in context of the ongoing Israel Palestine conflict. Listen to Hedi Viterbo speaking with Ekta Oza about his book on law, rights and childhoods in Palestine. theccysc.com/podcast/episod…

We're delighted to publish an interview with our member, eithne nightingale, about her new book -

Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain: Oral Histories 1930s-Present Day (@BloomsburyBooks):

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📚 New research alert! Our latest manuscript in the International Journal of Modern Education Studies explores the impact of an eight-week Artful Thinking curriculum on students' critical thinking abilities. The students have shown significant improvement, particularly in…

Next Tuesday I'll be speaking in person in Liverpool Bluecoat for CSIS about enslaved children in the ancient world. #classicstwitter

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Exciting news! Save the date for the Centre for the History of Childhood colloquium on 'Children and politics' - Monday, June 24th at Magdalen College Oxford & online. Don't miss out on this fantastic lineup of speakers! Registration opening soon. Children's History Society

Is any #twitterstorian on here a #PGR or #ECR w expertise in the UK’s secondary school system in the Edwardian era 1902-1914? #HistEd . If so, my own research might intersect w yours as I analyse the schools attended by some 3,000 junior officers in the British Army of the FWW. 1/

Check out Digital Childhood's new Childish Things article by eithne nightingale: A photograph album holds the story of Argun's life, and connects generations of his family to his own childhood in Cyprus.

Bad Habits in Historical Perspective, a 2 day workshop held UCD CHOMI on Sept 5th and 6th. Please circulate far and wide #histmed

Call for Abstracts: Networking Workshop on Supplementary Education in Theory, Policy, and Practice, University of Birmingham, 5 July 2024. Deadline: 23 May 2024. Details here👇

This evening (17:30-19:00BST), join us in Senate House or through Zoom to hear Dr. Jessamy Carlson 💙🇺🇦 present '“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good”: The Juvenile Courts in Suffolk, 1933-1943.'
To join us, please register through this link: history.ac.uk/events/i-solem…
See you there!