Family Estrangement Has Been Complicated for Centuries

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

The 5th Journal of Youth Studies International Conference

We are delighted to share our Call for Papers for our upcoming conference on child displacement in the 20th century. The conference will take place at Manchester Metropolitan University on the 17th an...

Most of us conceive of childhood and maternity as separate, linearly progressive stages of life. First comes childhood, then comes puberty, then comes adulthood and reproduction. However, scholars con...

Many objects related to the history of childhood have been lost to time, and the one I have chosen to write about is among them: collection boxes. These boxes were ephemeral objects, typically handed ...

Read in today’s post about The Childish Professor, a new public history project by Dr. Holly N.S. White that helps make the exciting history of childhood more accessible to students, educators, and mo...

Read in today’s post about The Childish Professor, a new public history project by Dr. Holly N.S. White that helps make the exciting history of childhood more accessible to students, educators, and mo...

A new book series with Routledge, co-edited by Dr Kristine Alexander and Dr Simon Sleight, is welcoming submissions.

On 2nd October 1931, a couple of weeks after the so-called Mukden Incident staged by the Japanese as an excuse for invading Manchuria, readers of the newspaper Shenbao (Shanghai News) who looked at th...

On 2nd October 1931, a couple of weeks after the so-called Mukden Incident staged by the Japanese as an excuse for invading Manchuria, readers of the newspaper Shenbao (Shanghai News) who looked at th...

For this year, the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth has awarded their Dissertation Award to Dr. Susanne Quitmann for her thesis titled, “Reconceptualising Voice: An Exploratory Case Stud...