Welcome to Digital Childhoods! A new online magazine for histories of children and youth, and a companion to the Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth.

SSCIP friends, please comment your favourite easily accessible books for those interested in childhood in the past 📚

I had a great time at this year's Paleopathology Association meeting in LA!
I feel very grateful to have had the opportunity to give a talk
on child abuse in the bioarchaeological context #PPA2024

Registration is NOW OPEN for the Children's History Society Conference 2024 Newcastle University, 4-6 July, please share widely! histchild.org/pages/newcastl… #histchild #twitterstorians

Incorporation of children’s artwork into the Must Farm book launch exhibit at Cambridge Archaeology 😍 Cambridge Archaeological Unit

Jisun Jang, my fantastic phd student, has an article out on her new method of adult age estimation using geometry and statistics. R package coming soon! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Dive into the fascinating world of childhood history with these recent publications! 📚 From evolving concepts of childhood to the impact of societal shifts, these studies offer intriguing insights into the history of childhood.
History of Education Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood SHCY

A Bronze Age burial urn (1610–1500 cal. BC) from Leicestershire. Contains remains of three generations of the same family (two adult females, and a child). This blog looks at the significant prehistoric discoveries from the site: ulasnews.com/2024/03/13/eye… #Archaeology

At almost 2,000 years old, this child’s wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times. It was unearthed at Vindolanda cavalry barracks in 2017. 📷 my own. More info: vindolanda.com/toy-sword

#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology

First Iron Age burial site for children found in Rustaq muscatdaily.com/2024/03/03/fir…

We are offering a scholarship on one of our MSc. courses. More information here 👇bradford.ac.uk/scholarships/a…
#Archaeology #Osteology #Palaeopathology #Geophysics #Forensics

📣 PUBLISHED 📣 “Hunter–Gatherer children's close-proximity networks: Similarities and differences with cooperative and communal breeding systems” in Evolutionary Human Sciences by Nikhil Chaudhary et al.

👉 Read more here: arch.cam.ac.uk/news/hunter-ga…

📸 Rodolph Schlaepfer and Sylvain Viguier

Exciting news! My history of Cold War Britain through the eyes of children & young people is now under contract with Yale University Press London📚, coming spring 2026 #twitterstorians #histchild

Well this is all rather exciting! The book cover for 50 Finds From Childhood has just arrived from Amberley Publishing Portable Antiquities #archaeology #Childhood -out July 2024!

Come join Dr Sam Tipper and I for a two day course on analysing human remains with plenty of hands on experience

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The new issue of J Childhood, Education & Society (2024: vol 5• issue 1) has been published!

Feel free to share this #openaccess issue with your colleagues.

Full issue: doi.org/10.37291/27176…

#earlyyears #Children #childhood #society #ChildRights #EducationForAll

CALLING ALL ARCHAEOLOGY STUDENTS or related disciplines. The EAA NEEDS YOU! ☝️ We are looking to recruit volunteers to help steer the Annual Meeting (on-site or online) #EAA2024 . Please follow this link for more details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/5899d6f2 Thank you 🙏