Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events

The Centre for the History of Childhood aims to promote the study of children, youth and childhood in the past through supporting research within and beyond Oxford, fostering a community of researchers and sharing new research through public engagement activity.

Seminars are works-in-progress, designed to offer a space to researchers working on childhood-related themes to share ideas and to get feedback on new work.

All welcome – and to join us for lunch afterwards.

Seminars take place in the Sophia Sheppard Room, Magdalen College, and online via Microsoft Teams, unless otherwise stated.

To find out more, join the mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/info/history-of-childhood or follow us on twitter (@HistChildOxford)

If you would be interested in presenting a paper or organising a discussion session, please email mailto:sian.pooley@magd.ox.ac.uk

For online access, Microsoft Teams links will be sent to the mailing list in advance or email mailto:sian.pooley@magd.ox.ac.uk for a link.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Christina de Bellaigue, Sian Pooley, Helen Sunderland
Timing: Mondays 11:00-12:15; in person and online via Microsoft Teams
Web Address: https://history.web.ox.ac.uk/centre-history-childhood#/
Organising department: Faculty of History

Talks:

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

New research in the history of childhood by undergraduate and Masters students
Date: 29 April 2024, 11:00 - 12:15 (Monday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Georgina Close-Smith, Shereece Linton-Ramsay, Kerry Stapleton, Daniel Surrey
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

“They do not discipline me without reason”: The relationship between foster child and foster parent and the experience of growing up in Danish private foster care 1900-1922
Date: 13 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:15 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Amalie Olga Lyngsted (University of Copenhagen)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Children’s perspective on social movements in Finland, 1959-1989
Date: 3 June 2024, 11:00 - 12:15 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Heidi Kurvinen (University of Turku)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark