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Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood

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Oxford University Centre for the History of Childhood - a centre established in 2003 to promote research into the history of children, youth and childhood. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-history-childhood

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Stephanie Olsen@stephanieolsen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There's still time to send us your applications by May 1! @shcy.bsky.social @histchild.bsky.social @histchildoxford.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social

SHCY@shcy.bsky.social · 8mo 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...

Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood@histchildoxford.bsky.social · 6mo ago

For anyone joining in person today, we’re now in the summer common room - staircase 3

Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood@histchildoxford.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Check out our exciting programme for the term, starting this Monday 27/04 with our brilliant u/g and MSt students presenting on education in Shanghai, Girlhood Culture in France, Childhood and memory in South Africa & multiracial family like in the late 20thC US

Trinity 2026 Oxford History of Childhood Seminar Series programme, Seminars are on Mondays 11:00-12:15 Magdalen College, Sophia Sheppard Room and online via Microsoft Teams. All welcome – and to join us for lunch afterwards. Monday 27 April (Week 1): New research in the history of childhood by undergraduate and Masters students: • Camille Lund (Oxford), Educating Shanghai: The Emergence of a Public School in the International Settlement, 1863-97 • Claire Jeandidier (Oxford), Mapping Girlhood Culture and Friendship Networks in Modern France • Amy Bloch (Oxford), ‘A good Jew and a good citizen’: Childhood and memory in twentieth- century South Africa • Benoit Mes (Oxford), ‘Welcome to our melting pot’: Interrace publications, multiracial family life, and the interracial movement in the United States, c. 1989-2000 Monday 18 May (Week 4): Aisha Djelid (Oxford) Enslaved Children, “Adultification,” and Resistance in the antebellum US South, 1812-1861 Monday 1 June (Week 6): Susanne Schmidt (Basel) “One Marshmallow Now or Two If You Wait”: Experimental Psychology, Colonial Childhoods, and the Origins of the Marshmallow Test Monday 15 June (Week 8): End of term social event 12:15pm - Join us for lunch at Magdalen College’s café (Old Kitchen Bar) To find out more, join the email list web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/info/history-of-childhood or follow us on Bluesky @HistChildOxford or Instagram @histchildoxford. For online access, Microsoft Teams links will be sent to the mailing list in advance or email sian.pooley@magd.ox.ac.uk for a link. Convenors: Christina de Bellaigue, Siân Pooley, and Helen Sunderland
The English Historical Review@enghistrev.bsky.social · 8mo ago

News! EHR is hosting a free one-day symposium at St John's College, Oxford, on Friday 17 April, 10-6, on the theme 'When there are no sources'. Further details and how to sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-there...

When there are no sources: an English Historical Review symposium

The EHR is hosting a one-day symposium in St John's College, Oxford, to celebrate the recent publication of the journal's 600th issue.

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