Slow Historian (Dr Simon Sleight)
@slowhistorian.bsky.social
Considered thinking - Sustainable scholarship - Artisanal histories. Reading / writing / teaching / mentoring. @King's College London. Occasional history musings on cities, memory, youth, Australia.
Notifications are going out regarding acceptances of the Children's History Society biennial conference this summer in Sheffield. Check your emails for messages! The conference website is here: www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... and the organisers are Dr Yinka Olusoga and Dr Julia Bishop :)
Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society
University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026
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Next week at the 'Life-cycles' history seminar in Bloomsbury, this paper from Magdalene Klassen (Johns Hopkins University): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/.... All welcome
Friendly Warnings: Youth and Protection in British Sexual Surveillance of International Travel, 1885–1914
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Routledge Studies in the Histories of Children and Youth - expressions of interest welcome for book publications! All the details are here www.histchild.org/articles/pub... #histchild
Publish on the history of children and youth
A new book series with Routledge, co-edited by Dr Kristine Alexander and Dr Simon Sleight, is welcoming submissions.
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Well done indeed, Berry!
Helen Esfandiary@helenesfandiary.bsky.social · 10mo ago@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.'🏆🙌🎉
*Call for papers!* The Children’s History Society, Fifth Biennial Conference 'Space, Place, Belonging and Identity in Intergenerational Histories of Childhood and Youth ' To be held at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026. Details here: www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society
University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026
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@berrypillot.bsky.social just published a blog post based on her dissertation 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...
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Join us this evening for Emma's talk, which promises to reveal a hidden and often very difficult history #histchild
IHR Life Cycles seminar@ihrlifecycles.bsky.social · last yr.Join us tomorrow evening to hear Emma Bradley tell us how "post-war Mother and Baby Homes systemically addressed young unmarried motherhood through age-coded institutional practices". We'll be online and at the IoE. Follow the link for more details. www.history.ac.uk/events/it-yo...
Next week's 'Life-Cycles' seminar addresses Mother and Baby Homes: ‘It is the young unmarried mother who goes into a Mother and Baby Home’: child mothers and institutional cultures of containment Online & room 537, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way www.history.ac.uk/events/mothe... ALL WELCOME!
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It was a real pleasure to be involved with this, helping Will to trace his family story. Will was also very affable, and the BBC production team super impressive! What a story, too...!
King's College London, History Department@kingshistory.bsky.social · last yr.Last night, our colleague Simon Sleight @slowhistorian.bsky.social was on #WhoDoYouThinkYouAre with Will Young! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Another great crop of third-year UG dissertations, all now marked! Here is a selection of what came in for the module 'Young Lives: Growing Up in Liverpool, London, Melbourne and Sydney, 1870-1970' at King's College London. Lots of pioneering work among the group :) #histchild
Many congratulations to Dr Elena Patrizi for the viva defence of her PhD thesis here in Switzerland! It was a pleasure to be part of the panel and to participate in the public discussion of this important work, which passes with the highest honours in the Swiss system, summa cum laude #histchild
Deserved recognition of a terrific piece of work! Well done, Berry!
King's College London, History Department@kingshistory.bsky.social · last yr.Congrats to Berry Pillot de Chenecy who was awarded the 2024 Batman Prize for her undergraduate dissertation 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children's Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool' under the supervision of @slowhistorian.bsky.social
Join us this evening in person or online for our latest seminar paper addressing age as a category of historical analysis
IHR Life Cycles seminar@ihrlifecycles.bsky.social · last yr.Tomorrow! 18th February, 17:30 to 19:00. Join us to hear Berry Pillot de Chenecey present 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children’s Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool'. We'll be at Senate House but you can also join us online.
Next week's 'Life-Cycles' IHR seminar with Tahaney Alghrani will be online - details and registration here. All welcome! www.history.ac.uk/events/waywa...
Wayward Girls in Victorian and Edwardian England, Pathways in and out of Juvenile Institutions,1854-1920
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The Children's History Society (#histchild) now has a Starter Pack to help members connect! go.bsky.app/Q8pibDm If you would like to become a member, head here www.histchild.org (Membership runs from January-January each year.) Happy New Year to one and all!
Really looking forward to reading this new book edited by history chums Maria Cannon and Laura Tisdall. It's free to access via the link (hooray!) and set to be launched in London at the IHR in January :) Congrats to all the authors! uolpress.co.uk/book/adultho...
Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z - University of London Press
Adulthood has a history. This book explores how concepts of adulthood have changed over time in Britain and the United States from 1350 to the present day through eleven case studies. Ideas of adultho...
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FINAL REMINDER: Conference 2025 - Historicizing Experiences - Call for Papers deadline on Friday 29 November. Please find the full CfP and more info on the conference website events.tuni.fi/historyofexp... @hexhandbook.bsky.social @ttepora.bsky.social @raisatoivo.bsky.social
Call for Papers | History of Experience | Tampere Universities
Historicizing Experiences Seventh Annual Conference March 10-12, 2025 Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences Tampere University, Finland
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*Pleased to report that The Children’s History Society is now on Bluesky!* 🎉 Follow us at @histchild.bsky.social to stay updated on all things related to the history of children, childhood and youth. As before feel free to use #histchild to flag relevant interests. Also check out www.histchild.org.
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