Back of my Polling Card for local elections. For 1st time, photo ID is required. Card gives many options for elderly or those with disability. None, NONE, for younger or student voters. The policy is simply biased against younger voters, designed to suppress their vote.

I'm in the South West in May so I'll revel in the frocks at @NTKillerton curated by Shelley Tobin. I'll have to blag my way in with my NT tenant card 😂

In London in May, war artist Arabella Dorman has a short fundraising exhibition at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral on Duke St, titled "Children of War" for Beyond Conflict Would be interested to hear about it from London historians #histchild. beyond-conflict.co.uk/mediahub/blog/…

The #childhood exhibition PSA continues... Inverness Museum @highlandmuseums have a season called PLAY! co-curated with the Care & Learning Alliance. Exhibition explores past changes and future aspirations in play. Highlands historians - any thoughts? highlifehighland.com/inverness-muse…

A couple of European exhibitions too: Steve McCurry's show 'Children' closes this week in the Ducal Palace, Genova. Yeah its the guy that took the picture that this one reminds you of. palazzoducale.genova.it/mostra/steve-m…

In Brussels, Paddy Dowling has an exhibition: "From despair to hope: children beyond armed conflict". I'm interested in these exhibitions hosted by international diplomatic organisations - who is the audience? What's the politics of this? I want to know! belgian-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/en/events/exhi…

Did y'all know there was a Posy Simmons show at the Pompidou? Until April? She's well and truly smashed the glass ceiling in comics 😍💃 centrepompidou.fr/en/program/cal… theguardian.com/books/2024/jan…

Another illustration/publishing exhibition (I can't stop ffs). The Victoria Art Gallery in Bath has a show of Ladybird books. So many (often anonymous) women illustrators, drawing & painting for kids books and totally defining our visual imaginations. shorturl.at/fhkT5

Later in the year there's Roger Mayne: "Youth" at the The Courtauld - I'm predicting this will be the surprise fashion hit of the year. Expect coverage from Vogue. But you wanna write about it for Digital Childhoods? hmu! courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh-r…

"Girls are Powerful" A fantastic poster from See Red Women's Workshop, creators of feminist posters from 1974 to 1990. More online: bit.ly/3nie8t1 #WomensHistoryMonth

Check out our beautiful new look Quizogyny pub quiz zine. For issue 11 we done a total redesign. But our intersectional feminist manifesto remains unchanged. Fight the Patriarchy over five rounds! On Etsy now - analogue or digital versions available. etsy.com/uk/listing/169…

This is an absolutely beautiful project & exhibition - I've just devoured the online version. Inspiring voices, wonderful illustration, and a zine version. Be still my heart! #teenagekicks

And read through our visual and material culture features: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/paper-doll…

The new website, Digital Childhoods, has launched! We've polished the fonts and shuffled the icons, and edited a nice wee collection of opening articles. Now to keep it going, with short n spicy articles and reviews of the child-history-sphere. Get in touch! #histchild #cfp

Labour must commit to develop every childs voice through Art music and drama.

We've had some lovely contributions to Digital Childhoods in the last couple of months. The Childish Things collection has grown beautifully, including teenage questionnaires, Roman baby bottles and architectural toilet roll tubes: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/tubes/

The Interviews section is growing too, and is super fun to do. I loved reading this article - from a totally different period - with an eye to questions that I could ask the author. Very illuminating, and hopefully the interviews are just as fun to read! #histchild #Academics

Congratulations Young V&A! and all the amazing people who worked thru lockdown and storage moves etc etc to revamp the museum and shape its future. 🥳

Grateful for the opportunity to have an in-depth conversation with SHCY (@shcy.bsky.social)’s Digital Childhoods about my research. shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/juvenile-j…

In a new feature on Digital Childhoods, Nicholas Orme takes us back to Tudor England, following fragments of folk song and nursery rhymes that were transcribed in early song books: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/tudor-nurs…