A short piece on family estrangement! www.zocalopublicsquare.org/how-did-peop...

How Did People Go ‘No-Contact’ in the 1700s? | Essay

Family Estrangement Has Been Complicated for Centuries

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Applications are due in a few days!

SHCY@shcy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

SHCY invites applications for the editorship of the Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth. The position will begin on June 1, 2027, and applications are due by October 1, 2026.

The winner of SHCY's 2026 Laura Lovett Dissertation Award is Anaïs Faurt, for "Neither Safe nor Sound: Child Protection at the End of the French Empire, 1949-1979," (Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 2025).

The winners of SHCY's 2026 Fass-Sandin Article Prize in English are Tamara Myers and Georgia Twiss, for their article "The Rising (Street) Generation: The Vancouver Runaway Revolution and 1970s' Child Saving."

From 2003 to 2022 in UK schools, "children were becoming lonelier, more anxious, more lacking in a sense of purpose, and less able to express normal teenage frustration in a way that they could expect to be tolerated or forgiven." Via @lrb.co.uk / @shcy.bsky.social @histchild.bsky.social

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last mo.

‘An extraordinary 314,000 people between 18 and 24 are not in work, or education, or in training, or receiving benefits. They have effectively disappeared off the government’s grid.’ @will-davies.bsky.social on what’s going wrong for British youth. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Still time (until Sept 15) to send us your proposals for the SHCY conference in Montréal! www.shcy.org/news-announc... @shcy.bsky.social @histchildoxford.bsky.social @histchild.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social #coenars

The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (JHCY) is looking for a new editor or co-editors. Details below. Please share widely! @shcy.bsky.social @histchildoxford.bsky.social @histchild.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social

Reminder that submissions for SHCY 2027 are due in under a month!

SHCY@shcy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The call for papers for SHCY's 2027 conference in Montreal is now live! Submissions are due September 15: www.shcy.org/news-announc...

Call for papers - 3 child-focused panels at the annual conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Links and details - in the comments below. Proposals are due by 30 September. The conference will be held online and at Salve Regina University (US) in March 2027.

Have you ever wondered about what English language terms should we use when we discuss the history of European education? What should be do with terms such as "compulsory schooling", "school child" "state" and "nation"? In that case, this book is for your, see doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Journal Of The History Of Childhood And Youth Call For Book Reviewers: www.shcy.org/news-announc...

SHCY invites applications for the editorship of the Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth. The position will begin on June 1, 2027, and applications are due by October 1, 2026.

New @aidhistory.bsky.social blog by @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social on the wealth of historical information in the Canadian Junior Red Cross now available at the @lpcchildrights.bsky.social : aidhistory.ca/50-years-of-... @redcrosscanada.bsky.social @shcy.bsky.social @histchild.bsky.social

"We all work together to keep on going for justice." Congrats to my @historyatgalway.bsky.social colleague @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social on this new exhibition, rooted in the Tuam Oral History Project. A prime example of why making room for histories like these is vital. www.rte.ie/news/connach...

'No longer second-class' - exhibition on Tuam home opens

The experiences of people born in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home are being shared in a new exhibition at Galway City Museum.

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Very happy to be co-organizing the SHCY conference in Montreal. Please send us your proposals by Sept 15! @shcy.bsky.social @histchild.bsky.social @histchildoxford.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social #coenars

SHCY@shcy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The call for papers for SHCY's 2027 conference in Montreal is now live! Submissions are due September 15: www.shcy.org/news-announc...

New on Digital Childhoods, read an interview with Edel Lamb about the Cavendish sisters, who played, wrote, and imagined during the English Civil War: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/playing-...

Playing Peacetime during the English Civil War - Digital Childhoods

Dr. Edel Lamb’s newest article, entitled “‘you new worlds may justly make’: Youth, Imagination and World-Building During the English Civil Wars”, dives into the literary oeuvre of Jane Cavendish and E...

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The spring issue of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth is here! Read this week's interview with Beth Marsden about her featured article and learn why "orphanage kids ruled": shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/voices-o...

Voices of the Melbourne Orphanage - Digital Childhoods

How do we know what we know about institutions for children? While institutional and administrative records may be the easiest path, they rarely tell the full story of children’s experiences. In her w...

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The call for papers for SHCY's 2027 conference in Montreal is now live! Submissions are due September 15: www.shcy.org/news-announc...

SHCY is co-sponsoring the conference "When Filiation Is Not Self-Evident: Filiation and Violence, 20th–21st Centuries," hosted at the Centre for History, Sciences Po (CHSP), Paris, on November 4-6, 2026. Proposals are due by June 30, 2026: www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fr/...

Appel à communications | colloque junior

Quand la filiation ne va pas de soi. Filiations et violences, XXe - XXIe siècles. Date limite : 30 juin 2026

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‘Young children in monasteries, nunneries and cathedral schools were taught literacy through memorising the psalms, trained to utter complex thoughts and feelings through song.’ Ardis Butterfield on medieval psalters. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ardis Butterfield · When Horses Snigger: Illuminated Psalms

The psalms seem deeply familiar, but the not particularly Christian anglophone might struggle actually to provide much...

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The call for papers for SHCY's 2027 conference in Montreal is now live! Submissions are due September 15: www.shcy.org/news-announc...

Save the Date: The next SHCY conference will be held at Concordia University in Montreal on June 28-30, 2027. Call for papers coming soon!

Wrote a tiny little blog for @shcy.bsky.social about a juke box that experienced a spiritual conversion in the 1950s. Check it out here! shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/conversi...

The Converted Juke Box - Digital Childhoods

In 1954, a news article from the Beckley News-Herald reported that a Christian youth organization, called Youth for Christ, had converted an old beer storeroom into a youth center in the small West Vi...

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Call for papers for the 5th international conference of the Journal of Youth Studies. The conference will take place at the University of Porto (Portugal) in May 2027. Abstracts are due by 31 July 2026. jys-conference.eventqualia.net/en/2027/home/

CFP: The Othered Child: Roma (and) Childhood between History and Antigypsyist Fantasy — www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...

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_...

Postdoctoral Researcher (History of Everyday Nationalism, CoE NARS) / Tutkijatohtori

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CFP—Safe and Sound: Caring for Children Displaced by Conflict During the 20th Century: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Reminder. Send me your applications!

SHCY@shcy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Society for the History of Children and Youth offers annual grants to scholarly event organizers. SHCY will award two $500 grants and one $1500 grant for events that take place in 2026–27. The application deadline is May 1. Find more information here: www.shcy.org/events1/even...

Nominations for SHCY's 2026 Grace Abbott Book Prize, Fass-Sandin Article Prize, and Laura Lovett Dissertation Prize are now open! The deadline for submission is April 15, 2026. More information is available here: www.shcy.org/awards/curre...

The Society for the History of Children and Youth offers annual grants to scholarly event organizers. SHCY will award two $500 grants and one $1500 grant for events that take place in 2026–27. The application deadline is May 1. Find more information here: www.shcy.org/events1/even...