Children’s History Society

📣 Extended deadline! Get your abstracts in while you can!

RGS 2026 CfP Family as site of environmental politics RGS Call for papers - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2026 – London, England (1st-4th  September 2026) Session title: The family as a site of environmental politics Co-organisers: Leah Edwards [Durham U...

CfP for @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference just dropped! Organised by @geogdurham.bsky.social 's Leah Edwards and myself: The Family as Site of Environmental Politics. Please share widely!

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If you're working on any aspect of 'The Family as Site of Environmental Politics', do consider sending in an abstract!

This is a call for papers for a special issue of gender and history on childhood, gender and crises. For more details email katie.barclay@mq.edu.au

Call for papers: Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World. for Gender & History

The project will commence this October 2026. The application window is expected to be quite small, so apply as soon as you can once the official advert goes live next month!

Interested candidates should get in touch with Dr Sarah Crook at S.R.E.Crook@Swansea.ac.uk.

Applicants do not need to be Welsh or have the ability to speak Welsh, though a keen interest in the country and its culture is strongly advised. The university is particularly eager to hear from its alumni and other MA students.

The successful candidate will be supervised by Dr Sarah Crook, senior lecturer in History and Dr Jacky Tyrie, senior lecturer in Early Education and Childhood Studies. The doctoral student will also spend three months on a working placement with Play Wales @playwales

We’re thrilled to share this AHRC-funded PhD opportunity from Swansea University @swanseauni

“Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to present” explores how Wales developed its own distinct stance of child’s play through the examination of postwar Welsh childhoods.

Conference Visit the post for more.

📣DEADLINE EXTENDED!

We are delighted to announce that we're extending the deadline for applications to our 50th anniversary conference!

At this busy time, we want as many people as possible to have the chance to apply.

Now accepting applications until 23 Jan!

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Call for papers for one-day colloquium: Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood. Monday 22nd June 2026. Centre for the History of Childhood, University of Oxford Magdalen College Oxford, UK, and online. We welcome papers that consider the theme of ‘Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood’ from a wide variety of perspectives. Areas that papers might explore include: Children’s experiences as recipients of charity and humanitarianism, including in the context of conflict and displacement. Children’s experiences as charitable and humanitarian actors and providers. Representations of childhood within charitable and humanitarian discourses. Institutions and communities that mobilise around charitable and humanitarian relief for children. Memories, intergenerational transmission, and legacies of charity and humanitarianism. Failures, limitations, and tensions resulting from charitable and humanitarian actions. Archives for, approaches to, and public engagement with the study of charity, humanitarianism, and childhood in the past. Conceptual connections between care, vulnerability, and age. We welcome papers from any disciplinary or professional background and career stage, including advanced undergraduate and graduate students. We encourage papers that engage with the diversity of children’s and young people’s experiences in any historical period and place. Please send abstracts of c. 250 words for a fifteen-minute paper and a brief bio to sian.pooley@magd.ox.ac.uk by midday on Friday 13th March 2026. We plan to offer in person and online participation, so please indicate your preference when submitting. Organising Committee: Charlotte Canizo, Joseph Leidy, Siân Pooley, Susannah Wright

📢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...

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🚨 Tomorrow!

Join Manon Pignot and the Family, Women and Children History Network in this online workshop “Génération Grande Guedes: French Children’s Experiences of the First World War” TOMORROW 14:00-15:30 EST.

Simply follow this zoom link to attend! zoom.us/j/91000559151

🚨 Extended Deadline!

The Call for Papers for our Fifth Biennial Conference at the University of Sheffield have been EXTENDED until Monday 22nd December!

Get your proposals in while you still can!

Our full Call for Papers here: www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...

The @histchild.bsky.social conference is coming to the @sheffielduni.bsky.social in July 2026. Call for papers has been extended until Monday 22nd December. Please share - especially with research students and ECRs! www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...

Research Volunteers Needed for a project on the history of young people and democracy in modern Britain. We would like to hear from people who took part in a mock election at their UK school between 1983 and 2001. Write to us about your experiences here: https://forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f

Did you take part in a mock election at your UK school or college between 1983 and 2001?

Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain!

Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f

There's still time to share your school mock election memories for this exciting project on young people & democracy! @histchild.bsky.social @shcy.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social

Get ready for ISCHE 2026!
The SWG History of Knowledge in the History of Education invites paper proposals for two panels:
✍️ Knowledge & Emotions in the History of Education
📚 General theme: Knowledge + Education
Full CFP: shorturl.at/4UNtC
Submit by 15 Jan 2026 via: www.conftool.org/ische47

Deadline to submit an abstract to the always fabulous @histchild.bsky.social conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026, coming up on 14th December!* #histchild #histyouth #skystorians

*this is also a reminder to myself

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🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!

We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.

This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”

Deadline: 17 Dec 2025

Please share widely!

Kindertransport: New Discoveries - 07/12/2025 13:00:00 Amazing discoveries 86 years after the Kindertransport! Meet the woman behind them. Meet one of the child refugees who was on one of those rescue trains. Take the tour of a gripping new exhibition exp...

A guided tour of the exhibition is also included with a ticket, with a pre-recorded tour available to those attending the event online.

Read more about the event and book your tickets here: www.holocaust.org.uk/Event/the-ki...

86 years after the first Kindertransport left for Britain, this new exhibition presents recently discovered archival findings and live testimonies from survivors including John Fieldsend, who travelled on the Kindertransport as a young child.

📣 Event!

Kindertransport: New Discoveries
Online and in-person | 7 December 1:00-3:30

From Siberia to Wales: A memoir of wartime deportation is published by UWTSD’s Confucius Institute Executive Director A book launch was recently held for 'The Dolls We Left Behind: A Child’s Wartime Journey from Poland to Persia'. Krystyna Krajewska, Executive Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of ...

Read more about the publication here: www.uwtsd.ac.uk/news/siberia...

The book also explores the stories of these displaced families who later settled in Wales, connecting Polish wartime exile with Welsh postwar histories of refuge and resilience.

Edited by Eugenia’s daughter Krystyna, the memoir recounts the mass deportation of more than a million Poles, Jews, Lithuanians and Ukrainians from 1940s Poland to the labour camps of the Soviet Union.

📖 New Publication!

Published by Siostry Krajewskie Press, “The Dolls We Left Behind: A Child’s Wartime Journey from Poland to Persia” tells the true story of Eugenia Marta Krajewska, deported from Poland as a child and forced to work in a Soviet Siberian labour camp.

Investigating Irish & Scottish Women Writers of Children’s Literature
12 Dec @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social – free

Exploring regional & national identities in children’s literature c.1750–1940 – an era of major cultural & political upheaval in Ireland & Scotland
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📣 Check out this upcoming online workshop hosted by the Research of the Interdisciplinary Childhood Studies Team at the University of Warsaw.

Follow this link to access the workshop on Zoom and add the event to your calendar: us06web.zoom.us/j/82529424609

Register here on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-foetus...

A map of the event location is attached.

A drinks reception follows the seminar and interdisciplinary panel discussion.

Hope to see you there! 👶🩺

📣 Seminar Tonight!

Join Professor Lynne Vallone and a team from Queen Mary’s Women’s Health Research Unit for tonight’s seminar “The Foetus and Birthing Tools Across Disciplines” 👶

The seminar takes place in-person at the Queen’s Building, Queen Mary University of London from 5:00-6:30pm tonight!