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Children’s History Society

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The official account of the Children’s History Society 👧🧒 🧸Exploring and sharing the diverse history of children, childhood and youth 🪁Our website: https://www.histchild.org/ admin: Bethan Catherine Watts

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Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · Jul 1

👧🧒 Stay up-to-date with the Children’s History Society by following us on our official social media profiles below:

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Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · 1d

📣 Call for Papers! 📣

Check out the call for papers for our Biennial Conference in Sheffield!

Deadline for proposals is 14 December!

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Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society

University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 1d

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

Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society

University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026

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Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · 9d

You can read more about the project in our latest blog post on our website t.co/YbZr7W6WKM #histchild #histchildsociety #seenandheard #investinginchildren

https://www.histchild.org/articles/investing-in-children-

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Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · 9d

historical narratives and sought to personally address this in their project through workshops, interviews and other activities. The project is due to finish this autumn - we can’t wait to see what they’ve achieved!

Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · 9d

📣 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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Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · Jul 30

Interested in the histories of children and youths? Follow us!🧒👧

✍️ share your research with us!

📖 stay updated with the most recent scholarship!

⭐️ widen your network and meet like-minded researchers, academics, educators and enthusiasts!

Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · Jul 22

Check out this great opportunity to get your research Spotlighted! 👧🧒

Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group @acyig.bsky.social · Jul 22

And if you have published or seen something great in the anthropology of childhood or youth, it could be our next Spotlight feature! Author guidelines here acyig.americananthro.org/spotlight-on...

Spotlight on Scholarship Author Guidelines | Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group

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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · Jun 23

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...

History: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Early education, education, education: childcare in the policy and imagination of New Labour’s England, 1994-2003 (RS852) - Swansea UniversityMenu

We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

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Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · Jul 1

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Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · Jun 24

Bethan is also a Postgraduate Member of the Royal Historical Society. Welcome Bethan!
#histchild @histchildoxford.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @shcy.bsky.social

Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · Jun 24

She has published three non-fiction books about life in Tudor and Victorian England, and her work has appeared in magazines such as BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? and been featured on podcasts, including HistoryHit’s Not Just the Tudors.

Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · Jun 24

Bethan’s other research interests include attitudes to health and hygiene and the material culture of historical homes.

Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · Jun 24

Drawing upon multidisciplinary methods, her PhD thesis also explores how medieval children connected with their communities, interacted with medicine and faith, and formed familial and non-familial relationships.

Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · Jun 24

Bethan Catherine Watts is a PhD researcher at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, focusing on the lived experiences and material culture of children in Late Medieval England, particularly within domestic settings.

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Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · Jun 24

We also welcome Bethan Watts to the role, taking over in July. A bit about Bethan below 🙂

Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · Jun 24

📢 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.

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · May 23

#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 & 🧵

Historical Research and Policy Making

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Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · May 19

To see author's other works, visit here: helenparkerdrabble.com

Author Helen Parker-Drabble – A counselling background: a family historian turned geneatherapist.

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Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · May 19

📚 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 soon: 'Yet': Harry’s Journey Through Trauma to Triumph

Overcoming Childhood Separation, Isolation, Treatment and Disability in 1930-1950s Britain

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Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social · May 16

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!

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History of Education Society UK @histedsocuk.bsky.social · May 9

🎓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

PGR Seminars & Workshops - History of Education Society

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Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social · May 5

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

oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · May 5

Coming up soon! @csloanox.bsky.social will be kicking off our series 'Writing Histories/Histories of Writing' with a talk on 'Written developments: literacy, child development & young writing lives in mid-19thC-England'. Weds 07/05, 11.10-12.30 in person at Exeter Cohen Quad, or online via Teams

Programme for a seminar series on 'Writing Lives/Histories of Writing':
Week 2,
Weds 7th May, 11.10
Catherine Sloan (Oxford) Written developments: literacy, child development, and young writing lives in mid-nineteenth-century England

Week 4,
Weds 21st May, 11.10
Pol Dalmau (Pompeu Fabra) Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives

Week 6,
Weds 4th June, 11.10
Rebecca Gould (SOAS) Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory

Week 8,
Weds 18th June, 11.10

Rashel Zemlinskaya (Oxford) The Renaissance as an ideological construct in nineteenth-century Russian historical fiction

To find out more, join the email list at https://web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/info/long-19c-seminar or follow us on
Bluesky @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social. For online access, Microsoft Teams links will be sent to the mailing list in
advance or email christina.debellaigue@exeter.ox.ac.uk for a link.

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History of Education Society UK @histedsocuk.bsky.social · May 6

Want to become a Social Media Officer?

If so, there's a great opportunity from our friends at @histchild.bsky.social below!

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