Berry Pillot de Chenecey

Berry (left) with Claire Langhamer (IHR) and Cyan Turin (OUP), celebrating winning the Pollard Prize 2025 at the Historical Research Annual Lecture

Congratulations to @berrypillot.bsky.social for winning the #PollardPrize 2025! Berry's paper 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children’s Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool' will be published in Historical Research @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Thank you very much - I’m absolutely thrilled!

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I'm honoured to share that I've won the Pollard Prize 2025 and a publication offer with OUP's Historical Research. Thanks to @ihr.bsky.social, @oxfordacademic.bsky.social for this recognition and to the @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social convenors for affording me the opportunity to deliver my first paper.

Thank you so much! I'm deeply grateful to the KCL History department and my supervisor, Dr Simon Sleight @slowhistorian.bsky.social, for the incredible support and inspirational guidance – this work was shaped by everything I learnt at King's!

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Well done to our former student Berry Pillot de Chenecey @berrypillot.bsky.social who has just won the Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social (IHR) Pollard Prize for best postgraduate paper delivered in any IHR seminar series during the past year.

@ihrlifecycles.bsky.social strikes again with another rising star! Huge congrats to @berrypillot.bsky.social for winning the 2025 @ihr.bsky.social Pollard Prize for: 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children’s Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool.'🏆🙌🎉

Congratulations to one of our former speakers, @berrypillot.bsky.social, on being awarded the @ihr.bsky.social Pollard Prize for best paper given by a postgraduate student or researcher within one year of completing their PhD!
Berry spoke last year on children's play during the Second World War

Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to speak, it was an absolute honour to give my first paper at my favourite seminar series and I am truly delighted to have received this award!

Thank you so much Helen! I'm absolutely thrilled!

@berrypillot.bsky.social will also be speaking online on 25 June at 1pm @sheffielduni.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/no-place-t...

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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...

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...

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...

@berrypillot.bsky.social just published a blog post based on her dissertation shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-curr...

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Free CFRC online seminar from MA Public History student Berry Pillot de Chenecey on children's play during WW2! To join us on 25th June 1-2.30pm, you can book a free ticket via the link below.
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Delighted that @berrypillot.bsky.social will be talking about her award-winning research on children's play in London and Liverpool in the Second World War as part of the @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social online seminar series on 25 June, 1-2.30 pm. See below to book your place!

Berry Pillot De Chenecey Wins Prestigious 2024 Batman Prize for Outstanding Research Berry Pillot De Chenecey, Public History MA, has been awarded the esteemed 2024 Batman Prize by the Centre for Regional and Local History at the University of Leicester for her outstanding undergradua...

🎉 Congratulations to @berrypillot.bsky.social, our Public History MA student, for winning the 2024 Batman Prize with her outstanding undergraduate dissertation at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social 🏆

👉 Read about Berry's award winning dissertation here: shorturl.at/kUAZr

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