How did mapmakers and travellers work together to create maps in the early 1900s? These 1913-14 maps preserve corrections made by traveller and archaeologist Gertrude Bell to a mapmaker's working copy, offering a glimpse into the production of colonial cartography.

1/2 Today I'm joining <40 orgs & individuals calling on new Prime Minister @andyburnham.bsky.social to make it easier for every child to play where they live. End unnecessary #NoBallGames signs Make #PlayStreets easier Create #parks that welcome #play drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Weird how any negative framing of our auto culture is automatically anti-car & radical yet the billions of dollars spent on aggressive car ads and auto first infrastructure isn't framed as anti-pedestrian, anti-bike, anti-transit, anti-person, anti-senior, anti-child or anti-planet.

Free registration for anyone at this webinar. ipaworld.wildapricot.org/events

Wendy Russell@wendyrussell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join me on the eve of #InternationalDayofPlay! I'm talking about the review of contemporary research into children's play, policy and practice I did with Ludicology, commissioned by PlayWales Free registration for members via events section of www.ipaworld.org (log in, go to events tab)

Join me on the eve of #InternationalDayofPlay! I'm talking about the review of contemporary research into children's play, policy and practice I did with Ludicology, commissioned by PlayWales Free registration for members via events section of www.ipaworld.org (log in, go to events tab)

I love #Bluey and I love new ways of thinking about #play. I'll have to think about how I feel about seeing play as a religion, though. It carries a lot of baggage. www.rnz.co.nz/life/lifesty...

Can we consider 'play' to be a religion? Bluey certainly thinks so

The Australian TV show teaches us valuable life lessons, but what does it say about how we practise real-life religions?

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CFP: Playing with History - submissions due 11 May: oh, so tempting @wendyrussell.bsky.social

Playing with History: A conference - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS

PLAYING WITH HISTORY, 15 – 16 JULY at the University of Northampton.  Call for Papers deadline - 11 May The Centre for Historical Studies at the University of Northampton welcomes submissions for our ...

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Looking forward to this International Play Association webinar on Play in Palestine and the launch of the Arabic translation of the Play in Situations of Crisis Toolkit. Such an important and valuable piece of work ipaworld.wildapricot.org/event-6648565

Longer reflection on Westminster's semi-permanent play streets here. This is a remarkable and bold scheme – all credit to the team – and demonstrates an approach that other local authorities could consider, another tool in the campaign to restore children’s freedom to play on their doorsteps.

At our April Play Streets Forum (hosted with Lucy Colbeck), Maximilian Goodchild, Farran Leach and Carla Leowe from Westminster Council talked us through their Active Westminster semi-permanent Play… ...

At our April Play Streets Forum (hosted with Lucy Colbeck), Maximilian Goodchild, Farran Leach and Carla Leowe from Westminster Council talked us through their Active Westminster semi-permanent Play S...

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Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · 5mo ago

As ever, a fascinating and inspiring Play Streets Forum this morning, with Max Goodchild & Farran Leach from Active Westminster talking about their *permanent* play street designations (reviving the Street Playgrounds Act), giving play priority on 4 (soon 5) streets. Check out the road markings!

Hats off to @thetcpa.bsky.social, GemmaHyde, Sophie Hadfield-Hill, Peter Kraftl and everyone else who had a hand in this. Really useful "plug-in" tools to support local authorities to think about children when developing their #LocalPlan. Fab work. www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/ch...

It brings a smile to my face every year when I realise just how many of my #playwork friends have birthdays on 1 April

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services!

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

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Great report from @aliceferguson.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social and Tim Gill making the case for a "child lens" on streets and transport policy. Brings a lot of information together in one place to build a strong argument. Thank you! playingout.net/take-action/...

I’ve just shared a bit of a lengthy post about @playingout.bsky.social and the new Play Streets Network that Lucy Colbeck (former PO play streets manager) and I are going to be working on to keep supporting play streets across the country.

I wasn&#39;t able to get down to Bristol earlier in the month for Playing Out&#39;s big celebration (and farewell) but I loved seeing the reflections of the day, and of the wider Playing Out movement,...

I wasn't able to get down to Bristol earlier in the month for Playing Out's big celebration (and farewell) but I loved seeing the reflections of the day, and of the wider Playing Out movement, which h...

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Hey #AdventurePlaygrounds in England, here's a rare funding opportunity. Well done, @playengland.bsky.social www.playengland.org.uk/newsblog/500...

£500,000 National Adventure Playground Fund launched — Play England

A new national funding programme has launched to protect, restore and grow staffed adventure playgrounds across England. The Adventure Playground Fund is a £500,000 programme offering unrestric...

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Dear organisations: PLEASE DATE YOUR PUBLICATIONS!! Yet again, I'm doing a review that involves grey literature. Yet again, I consistently come up against organistions not dating their publications. Having no date really reduces the impact of your hard work. #RantOver

Oh WOW!!!!! This has to be somebody's dream PhD! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

History: Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to the present (RS936) - Swansea University

We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

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I’ll be speaking the Youth Sport Trust Conference putting play on the map as part of their work supporting young people to thrive, with their happiness and health at the heart of schools and communities. www.youthsporttrust.org/school-suppo... #YSTConference

Worrying to see this, and the power of the reductive narrative that focuses primarily/only on screens as the cause of the "anxious generation"; it permits an avoidance of bigger debates about the decline of spaces for children & young people, the impacts of austerity & inequality, and so much more:

Wes Streeting asks US expert Jonathan Haidt to address officials on social media ban for under-16s

Exclusive: Health secretary issues invitation in push for UK to consider copying landmark restrictions in Australia

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International colleagues - please share. Call for Papers for “More Than Child’s Play: Global Perspectives on the History of Playgrounds”, Zurich 26-28 Aug. They are looking "beyond the existing West-centric scholarship." Deadline is tight - 15 January. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

International colleagues - please share. Call for Papers for “More Than Child’s Play: Global Perspectives on the History of Playgrounds”, Zurich 26-28 Aug. They are looking "beyond the existing West-centric scholarship." Deadline is tight - 15 January. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

This episode of the middle years, part of @drguddisingh.bsky.social 3 Ages of Child series is brilliant, looking at bottom up health creation rather than top down illness treatment. Plus it features Glamis #AdventurePlayground. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Three Ages of Child, Episode 2: The Middle Years

A journey through the landscape that shapes the health of our children.

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As a taxpayer, I am happy to pay more tax to support public services and welfare. That is a mark of a civic, collective society rather than one based on individual self-interest and the elevation of wealth to a virtue. #Budget2025

#TypoOfTheDay: Play Ragers @playglos.bsky.social

Our recent article reflecting on neighbohood play during the first covid-19 lockdown, using Donald Winnicott (and Bonnie Honig and Joanna Kellond) to think about play, space, and care, both in the pandemic and beyond, now has a home in @tibg.bsky.social's December issue. @wendyrussell.bsky.social

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

In this paper, we explore what the experiences of some children and families in their neighbourhoods during the first UK COVID-19 lockdown can tell us about the value and importance of neighbourhood ...

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Please sign the petition to save Human Geopgraphy at University of Leicster c.org/MrqhhLBH8J

Save Geography at the University of Leicester

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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Angela Last@mutablematter.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

At a trustees’ meeting at Shiremoor Adventure Playground last night, and the playworkers reported an average of 50-60 kids at after-school sessions through October. And a massive 422 visitors (children & adults) for the Halloween playday. It’s such an important place.

I'm reading through a collection of #playworkers' documentation of brief snapshot moments of playing & laughing out loud. In amongst the funding & sustainability headaches & other not-so-good aspects of the work, these joyous moments are what it's all about. #nonsense #playforplayssake #pleasure

Call for Abstracts for 2026 IPA world conference (2-5 Nov in Christchurch). Deadline 17 Feb 2026 NZDT. Theme: Auahatia (Innovating for Play), exploring bold, inclusive & culturally rich ways to create a world where all tamariki have the right to play www.ipachristchurch2026.com/call-for-abs...

Call for abstracts

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