A visual journey through Loren Lerner's career working on the history of representations of childhood.
A report on the results of our recent participant survey on SHCY's next international conference, which will be held in late June 2023 in Ontario, Canada.
Siân Pooley and Jonathan Taylor write about their new book, Children's Experiences of Welfare in Modern Britain.
Silke Hackenesch, an associate professor at the Institute for North American History at the University of Cologne, reflects on the way that trading cards leaned on gendered and racialized stereotypes to affirm the burgeoning commodity culture of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century.
This week we listen to and watch Sophie Bürgi, MK Czerwiec, Dominique Grisard, Mary Jo Maynes, and Mateusz Swietlicki present their panel at the Social Science History Association's 2019 annual meeting. You can listen here, or watch here. Open the post to learn more.
Celeste de Marco, the Coordinator of the Network of Rural Studies on Family, Childhood and Youth, talks about unravelling rural childhood experience from historical narratives and research.
Please enjoy Nicoleta Roman's report on this workshop that was hosted on 11-12 July 2019 by the New Europe College–Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest.
Shurlee Swain and Patrick J. Ryan engage with the critical ideologies of child-saving discourses in history and the present. Listen to this episode of the SHCY podcast.
James Marten discusses the methodology of the short books in children and youth histories, as well as his latest work, Very Short Intrudction to the History of Childhood. with PhD Candidate Lisa Lamson. Listen here.
Our final day of A Year in a Week looks back at our wonderful conference this past summer, hosted by Australian Catholic University in Sydney, Australia, and themed "Encounters and Exchanges."
Read about the Museum of German-American Heritage's lecture and discussion with Dr. Megan Brandow-Faller on Factory Toys and Their Discontents: Artistic Toys in Germany and Austria ca. 1900 on 21 March 2019 in Washington, DC.
James Marten and Patrick J. Ryan discuss the field of childhood and youth history in this revisited episode of Childhood: History and Critique. Listen here.
Mary Hatfield discusses childhood and gender in nineteenth century Ireland in this revisited episode of the Childhood: History and Critique series. Listen here.
Mahshid Mayar, assistant professor of American Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany, discusses the cultural context and messaging of children's toys in the United States in the nineteenth century.
Siân Pooley and Hannah Newton deliver keynote addresses on the challenges of childhood history, at our 2015 conference, hosted by Queen Mary University of London.
We revisit our SHCY Conference keynote from the 2015 eighth biennial conference. Karen Dubinsky presented "The Politics of Childhood Meets the Children of Politics: Cuban Literacy Teachers Revisit their Youth." Enter to read more or watch the video.
John Spurlock and Kim Phillips discuss the history of sexuality with Patrick J. Ryan. Listen, here.
30th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) was a plenary originally presented on 28 June 2019 during the 2019 Biennial SHCY Conference in Sydney, Australia, with participants Sana Nakata, Nanette Louchart-Fletcher, and Megan Mitchell, with Isobelle Barrett Meyering as Chair in the Ryan Auditorium Foyer (James Carroll Building).
Childhood and Governmentality was a plenary originally presented on 27 June 2019 during the 2019 Biennial SHCY Conference in Sydney, Australia, with chair Thom Axelsson and speakers Sana Nakata, Patrick Ryan and Marek Tesar in the Ryan Auditorium (James Carroll Building).