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Society for the History of Children and Youth - est. 2001 - international and interdisciplinary - shcy.org
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- In this week's Digital Childhoods post, read about Dr. Holly N.S. White's exciting new public history project on the history of childhood: "The Childish Professor"!
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- Reposted by SHCYCall for papers: Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World. for Gender & History
- In the first Digital Childhoods post of 2026, Valentina Boretti (vboretti.bsky.social) explores how candy and patriotism were connected in 1930s Shanghai: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/candies-...
- Reposted by SHCY📢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...
- Congratulations to @susannequitmann.bsky.social for winning the 2025 SHCY Dissertation Award! Read in this week's interview about her innovative research about British child migrants and finding the child's voice: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/shcy-dis...
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- Reposted by SHCYDo you work on #domesticabuse #divorce #economicabuse #childcustody in the third sector/policy? Then we have the workshop for you! 'Archives to Action' is a free 1-day workshop exploring the important role archival research can play in policy reform. Details 👇 www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
- See below for details of a FREE one-day workshop 'Archives to Action: Historical Evidence for Policy Reform in Marital Breakdown, Domestic Abuse, and Child Welfare' held @northumbriauni.bsky.social on Tuesday 20 January 2026. www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
- Reposted by SHCYMaybe the term 'adulthood' is, in fact, not incredibly useful if we keep redefining it to mean a shorter & shorter section of our lifespans (without even getting into the problems with assuming changes in the brain map onto social roles...) www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #histchild #skystorians
- Congratulations to Divya Kannan, this year's SHCY Grace Abbott Prize winner. Read more about her book, research, and thoughts in this week's interview on Digital Childhoods: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/poor-chi...
- Read in this week's Digital Childhoods post by Megan Buiocchi about a pin commemorating a British girl's overseas trip in 1934—and how the tour symbolized British women's new imperial roles: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/token-of...
- Reposted by SHCYThe 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
- Pre-teen writing etiquette goes way back! Check out the wonderful images in this week's post by Danni Cai on Digital Childhoods to learn more about how Chinese youth navigated letter-writing: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/fun-read...
- Reposted by SHCYCover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
- Archiving childhood is all about time! Read Mahshid Mayar's insightful take on children's temporality in this week's interview on Digital Childhoods: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/consider...
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- How much did you cherish your tamagotchi? In this week's post on Digital Childhoods, Kacey Doran analyzes care play within video games to question gender dynamics and shooter game discourse. Check out the wonderful illustrations by @bevscomics.bsky.social! shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/care-play/
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- In this week's article on Digital Childhoods—penned by @meganmcauley.bsky.social—read about twentieth-century Irish schoolchildren who took meticulous notes on toys they crafted themselves: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/homemade...
- Who really won the Cold War? From Soviet “wooden bicycles” to child-led coding, this week's article on Digital Childhoods by Margaret Mih Tillman (@margaretmihtillman.bsky.social) rethinks tech supremacy through the eyes of children's education: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/wooden-b...
- Missed SHCY's 2025 biennial meeting? You can watch Moira Herbst deliver the keynote address here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wD6...
- Did you know skateboards go back to the early 60s? In this week's blog post on Digital Childhoods, James Howard discusses the 'super surfer' that made parents and journalists clutch their pearls in horror: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/super-su...
- New on Digital Childhoods, read about the overlooked experience of Vietnamese refugee children in rural America. Thank you to Noah Adebanjo for sharing this piece with us! shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/between-...
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- We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Society for the History of Children and Youth's biennial conference, which is being held on Zoom from June 26-28 2025. To register, click here: tinyurl.com/4ypduv4r
- This week on the blog Sabine Fruhstuck shares a quintessential Japanese childish thing: the randsel. Read more about this iconic backpack here: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/carrying...
- In this week's blog post, Berry Pillot de Chenecey takes us to children in London during World War II who used shrapnel pieces for their play and imagination: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-curr...
- We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Society for the History of Children and Youth's biennial conference, which is being held on Zoom from June 26-28 2025. To register, click here: tinyurl.com/4ypduv4r
- The program and additional registration information are available on SHCY's website: www.shcy.org/events1/regi...
- This week on the blog, check out this fun interview with Jennifer Crane (@jennycrane.bsky.social) all about her fascinating new book on the rise, fall, and legacy of gifted children in the UK and the world: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-rise...
- Registration and program information for the 2025 SHCY Conference will be available soon! The cost to attend will be $50.
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- Reposted by SHCYLooking for a PhD candidate to study how first names convey information about parental values and beliefs in historical Europe (circa 1750-1950). Please share the info with potential candidates: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... (deadline for applying: June 1st)
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- In this week's blog post on Digital Childhoods, Lane Baker takes us all the way back to 1510 to explore Romani children in a Gothic tapestry: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/threads-...
- In this week's post on Digital Childhoods, Marlo Avidon (@marloavidon.bsky.social) explores early modern children's shoes and why we still find so many of them hidden in walls: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/shoes-sh...
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- Reposted by SHCYWe’re delighted to share details of ‘Nature Nurture: Edinburgh’s Childgarden Heritage, Cultures of Care, and Scottish Women’s Writing’, a symposium on 6 June, organised by our friends and colleagues @selcie.bsky.social! Get your free ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-nur... See you there!
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- Check out this week's interview on Digital Childhoods with Wendy Gamber discussing her new article on baby firebugs in the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth ! These late-nineteenth-century child arsonists loved playing with fire 🔥: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/fire-bab...
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- April Fools! In this week's blog post at Digital Childhoods, read about three-year-old Muriel who in 1935 won her town's annual doll competition dressed up as the nurse from the Dionne Quintuplets. A delightful piece by Jim Marten: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/muriels-...
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- The "unique syncretism of NASA toy ships and Soviet toy cosmonauts during the Cold War represented an unprecedented cultural crossover" in Uruguay, Diego Lascano writes in a new post on Digital Childhoods: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/a-soviet...
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- Helena Burniston reflects on Zadie Smith's novel "Swing Time" in a new article on Digital Childhoods: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/critical...
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- New on Digital Childhoods, Francisca Tapia Álvarez discusses a postwar Japanese tin "Reading Boy" toy: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/a-good-r...
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- SHCY offers grants to scholarly-event organizers every biennium, and will award two $500 grants and one $1500 grant for events that take place in 2025–26. Deadline for applications is March 1. More info here: www.shcy.org/events1/even...
- SHCY is seeking expressions of interest from prospective hosts for its Biennial Conference in June 2027: www.shcy.org/news-announc...
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- SHCY se complace en anunciar que están abiertas las nominaciones para el mejor artículo de revista o capítulo de libro revisado por pares sobre historia de la niñez, la niñez y la juventud publicado en español en 2023 o 2024: www.shcy.org/news-announc...
- New on Digital Childhoods, Pat Ryan discusses his recent JHCY article, "“Eugenic Continuities: Youth, Sex, Disability, and the Rise of Liberal Eugenics in the Late Twentieth Century”: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/eugenic-...
- SHCY is pleased to announce that nominations are open for the best peer-reviewed journal article or book chapter on the history of childhood, children and youth published in German in 2023 or 2024: www.shcy.org/news-announc...
- SHCY è lieta di annunciare che sono aperte le candidature per il miglior articolo di rivista peer-reviewed o contributo in volume con curatela sulla storia dell'infanzia, dei bambini e della gioventù pubblicato in italiano nel 2023 o 2024: www.shcy.org/news-announc...
- Annalise Walkama discusses French student rest homes at a new post on SHCY's Digital Childhoods—read here: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/student-...
- SHCY calls for nominations for the best doctoral dissertations on the history of children, childhood, or youth. Eligible dissertations must be defended in 2024 and in English or translated into English. The deadline for submission is Feb. 28: www.shcy.org/news-announc...
- Calling all nominations for SHCY's Fass-Sandin Prize, honoring the best peer-reviewed journal article in English on the history of children, childhood, or youth (broadly construed) published in 2024! www.shcy.org/news-announc...
- New book alert! Past president of SHCY Pat Ryan just published "Childhood and the Law in Canada – The Family/State Relationship": store.lexisnexis.com/en-ca/produc...
- We're pleased to call for nominations for the Grace Abbott prize, honoring the best book in English on the history of children, childhood, or youth (broadly construed) published in 2024: www.shcy.org/news-announc...
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- The Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) is pleased to call for nominations for the Grace Abbott prize, honoring the best book in English on the history of children, childhood, or youth (broadly construed) published in 2024: www.shcy.org/news-announc...
- A holiday special from Digital Childhoods—Kirsten Widdes writes an object lesson on Barbie's Dreamhouse: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/barbies-...
- Nominations for SHCY's 2025 prizes are now open! We'll be publicizing them individually over the coming days, but see here for a complete list of the updated calls: www.shcy.org/awards/curre...
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- New on Digital Childhoods, we talk with Alfredo Luis Escudero about his Fass-Sandin award-winning article "The New Age of Andeans": shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/age-in-t...
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