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· 5d
Fun Reading for Refinement: A Preteens’ Guide to Letter Writing - Digital Childhoods
Growing up with strict parents who value good manners, I have always had a close affinity with the history of manners in my journey of historical discovery. My attention is thus naturally drawn to var...
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· 21d
Consider Children's Temporality, 'Playes' - Digital Childhoods
In 2023, Mahshid Mayar published the insightful article “‘Playes Print the Letter’: American Child(hoods) as Archival Present/ce” in the Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth. In it, she expl...
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· Sep 8
Care Play: More Ways Young People Played Kindly with Videogames - Digital Childhoods
Follow along to read the entire comic strip by Bevs Boredom Comics! Growing up the in the 1990s and 2000s, the first game that I played and completed with my sister by my side was The Legend of Zelda:...
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· Aug 22
Homemade Toys in Twentieth-Century Ireland - Digital Childhoods
Throughout twentieth-century Ireland, social, political, and commercial concerns shaped public discourses about children’s play. Parents were scrutinised for their ability to provide children with the...
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· Aug 22
Homemade Toys in Twentieth-Century Ireland - Digital Childhoods
Throughout twentieth-century Ireland, social, political, and commercial concerns shaped public discourses about children’s play. Parents were scrutinised for their ability to provide children with the...
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· Aug 7
Wooden Bicycles: Children’s Coding in the PC Era - Digital Childhoods
Who won the Cold War? At the turn of the millennium, the United States seemed victorious in terms of technological development. As the Chinese magazine The World of Technology and Trade marveled in 19...
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· Jul 24
“Super Surfer”: The Joyriding Device and Childish Menace - Digital Childhoods
At the dawn of the 1960s, skateboarding burst onto the scene so quickly that parents and community leaders were unsure how to deal with the “craze.” While it began as a form of leisure for surfers whe...
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· Jul 11
Between Childhood and Conflict: The Vietnamese Refugee Child Experience in Arkansas - Digital Childhoods
The black and white photograph is jarring in its contradictions: a small Vietnamese boy, likely no more than ten years old, holding what appears to be a military rifle. His expression is neither frigh...
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· Jun 26
Carrying the Randsel - Digital Childhoods
For years after the introduction of mandatory elementary education for boys and girls in 1872, some of Japan’s pupils commuted in horse carriages. Servants who carried their belongings accompanied the...
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· Jun 12
The Currency of Wartime Childhood - Digital Childhoods
During the Second World War, the material worlds and realities of children were transformed entirely, from the everyday spaces they occupied to the objects they encountered on their way to school. Alt...
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· Jun 4
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· May 29
The Rise and Fall of the Gifted Child - Digital Childhoods
This spring, Jennifer Crane published her new book ‘Gifted Children’ in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945 with Oxford University Press (open access). It expands upon the article “...
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· May 29
The Rise and Fall of the Gifted Child - Digital Childhoods
This spring, Jennifer Crane published her new book ‘Gifted Children’ in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945 with Oxford University Press (open access). It expands upon the article “...
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· May 29
