2.5 year postdoc opportunity at CoE NARS, Tampere University. The focus is on the history of everyday nationalism and we encourage applications dealing with the history of childhood and youth. Please distribute far and wide and encourage great scholars to apply. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
Send your 300 word abstracts to caring.communities@newcastle.ac.uk by the 24th April, or get in touch for further information @caring-communities.bsky.social
Proposals may take the form of 15-minute papers, roundtables, workshops and panels, and may fit any of the suggested themes. Participants from relevant non-academic backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Sharing on behalf of @newcastleuni the Call for Papers for their upcoming conference “Caring Communities: Rethinking Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-Present”, taking place at Newcastle University on Thursday 3 and Friday 4 of September 2026.
Call for articles: "Putting Babies at the Centre: Pedagogies of Care."
For a special issue of the Journal of Childhood, Education & Society, co-edited by our member Jane Dorrian.
Abstracts are due by 15 November.
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Proposals for panels and round tables are also welcome. Interested participants should send their proposals to paula.plastic@mq.edu.au by the 15th July 2026.
📣 Call for Papers!
Macquarie University and the Society for the History of Emotions invite paper proposals for their upcoming conference, held both in-person, hybrid and online at Macquarie University, Sydney on Thursday, 26th November 2026.
Scenes from Ireland including countryside and Dublin City of children playing out-of/doors and interacting with their environment and nature. Museum of Childhood Ireland, Músaem Óige na hÉireann
Image of dandelion seed heads ‘clocks’ in an untamed margin of a road in Ireland. Museum of Childhood Ireland, Músaem Óige na hÉireann.
Hello!👋We’re back! Excited to launch a fundraising campaign for ’That Wilder Bond’ book on childhood/nature/environment for Intergenerational dialogue. To be donated to libraries. Help support here: www.spacehive.com/thatwilderbond
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#MuseumOfChildhoodIreland
📣 Extended deadline! Get your abstracts in while you can!
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.
📣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...
🚨 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!
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
