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!

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…

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…

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

I was on BBC Radio 4's AntiSocial on Friday talking about where our ideas about how to be a 'proper adult' come from, & why they're out of date! It's on again at 8pm on Weds, or you can catch up here (I'm on from c. 42 mins in) bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… #histchild #twitterstorians

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):

qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-view…

How does intergenerational dialogue help to enrich LGBTQ+ history?

In our latest article, the participants of a recent oral history project reflect on the importance of role models and solidarity within the queer community🧵👇
historyworkshop.org.uk/oral-history/i…

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

Liverpool Classical Association The Classical Association UoMCAHAE Children's History Society Women Also Know History HistoryManMet Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology at Liv Uni Liv Uni History Classics for All

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.

Check out Digital Childhoods' new Childish Things article by Lyn Stevens: A fundraising book for free kindergartens reveals ideas about working-class childhood in Edwardian Edinburgh. shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-life-o…

*SAVE THE DATE* We're delighted to share the provisional programme for this year's Centre for the History of Childhood colloquium on 'Children and politics'. Monday 24 June 9:30-5 at Magdalen College Oxford & online. Check out our fab line-up of speakers! Registration opens soon!

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👇

#HistChild people & #HistSex folks might also be interested

Three-year fixed-term lectureship in C20th history just been advertised here at Newcastle! Closing date 20th May. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-… #twitterstorians

We have a cover!

Pre-orders are available. Check out the book one reviewer called “an astonishingly original and compelling interpretation of the origin of modern, urban public-school systems in the United States.”
press.jhu.edu/books/title/53…

Interested in learning more about the history of family? Join us either online or in person in Limerick tomorrow for this 2.5 hour event. Everyone welcome. (If you are overseas this link will help you with the time differences: tinyurl.com/2s4wzwd)

University Of Limerick Limerick.ie

Check out Digital Childhoods' new Childish Things article by Lyn Stevens: A fundraising book for free kindergartens reveals ideas about working-class childhood in Edwardian Edinburgh. shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-life-o…

In Max Felker-Kantor’s new book “Dare to Say No” with UNC Press, he offers the first historical exploration of the once-ubiquitous and most popular drug education program in the US.

Read his latest in PB, which previews the book’s pathbreaking research: buff.ly/4aVTJ01