The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past

Childhood in the Past is an international, peer reviewed journal for interdisciplinary research on children and childhood in the past. If you think your research might be a good fit, feel free to reach out to our Journal Editor

Read the full article in Childhood in the Past Journal📗Join the Society for the Study of Childhood in the past for no more than £30 a year and get physical copies of every journal issue sent for free, as well as access to SSCIP events 👀

Uncovering Childhood in the Roman Army: A Perinatal Burial from the Roman Castrum of the Legio VI in León, Spain 🏛️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Come to Oulu, Finland this summer for the annual conference of @sscipchildhood.bsky.social - CFP now open

Children, Emotions, and Relations 18th Annual Conference of the Society of the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION OPEN FOR SSCIP 2026 📣 www.oulu.fi/en/events/ch...

Children, Emotions, and Relations 18th Annual Conference of the Society of the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP)

🇫🇮 The 18th Annual @sscipchildhood.bsky.social Conference will be held at the University of Oulu, Linnanmaa, Finland

📅 Wednesday, June 10th to Friday, June 12th, 2026

📣The theme for the conference will be Children, Emotions, and Relations

ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 15.2.26

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We announced the winner of this year's student presentation prize: Javier Salcines-Montana! Congratulations Javier on your fascinating talk about emotion and infant burial in the Bronze Age and Iron Age Iberia
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We are delighted to announce that next year @sscipchildhood.bsky.social
conference takes us to Oulu, Finland (June 10th-12th) where we will be hosted by Sanna Lipkin and colleagues

Discount book flyer for Documenting Activism, Creating Change, Archaeology and the legacy of MeToo. Code 006120.

Connecting with people doing amazing & important (usually voluntarily) work aimed at making archaeology safer for all has been such an incredibly inspiring process. Hugest thanks to @archaeocobb.bsky.social & also to all contributors! Out soon www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Medieval skeletons reveal the lasting damage of childhood malnutrition – new study Medieval teeth reveal how childhood hunger echoes through generations.

Medieval skeletons reveal the lasting damage of childhood malnutrition – new study
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Just because the last session has wrapped, it doesn’t mean that #SSCIP2025 is over. We still have a workshop on isotopes led by Julia Beaumont and Corinne Feuillatre

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Final session of the #SSCIP2025 is happening now 👍🏻

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We’re back for session 5 at the #SSCIP2025. This time the topic is life, and Selene Rodríguez Caraballo is speaking live from the Canary Islands ☀️
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Today's fascinating and sobering keynote by @kalexand.bsky.social @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

The second keynote of the #SSCIP2025 is live. @kalexand.bsky.social is going to talk about the history of childhood and polycrisis. Very excited 👏🏻
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Kicking off day 2 of @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference with discussions of death (followed quickly by a session on life, don't worry)

After a good day of sessions it is now time for play with Videnskabsklubben. Dissecting poop, extracting DNA from bananas, making time lines, and much more here at #SSCIP2025
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Our next speaker before tea @sscipchildhood.bsky.social
is Sascha Bjerg Bøgebjerg talking about the Kidlink forum

After a short break, we are now back for the final session for today at #SSCIP2025. Interesting talks about children’s agency by Sanna Lipkin and Sascha Bjerg Bøgebjerg
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Now to something more recent @sscipchildhood.bsky.social .....Sanna Lipkin looks at 20th century refugees in Finland

Session 2 on climate and children at the #SSCIP2025 is well on its way with presentations by Corinne Feuillatre, Csilla Libor and Daria Loznjak Dizdar
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Joined now virtually @sscipchildhood.bsky.social by Daria Loznjak Dizdar speaking about bronze age and iron age children in river confluence environments

The first @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference session extends from Paleolithic art to modern magazines, with talks from Izzy Washer and Majken Astrup!

Now exploring life in the Carpathian basin during two climate change events, Csilla Libor @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Now back from a tasty lunch @sscipchildhood.bsky.social
for our first speaker of the afternoon - Corinne Feuillatre speaks about her isotope research on populations in Sudan

Wow! Our next @sscipchildhood.bsky.social
speaker Majken Astrup tells us about Skalk Junior - a magazine about archaeology aimed at children here in Denmark

Starting with our first session speaker, Izzy Wisher @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

This year's @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference organiser Prof. Felix Reide welcoming us to this year's conference on the topic of children and climate change

We are ready for the first day of #SSCIP2025 here at @aiasdk.bsky.social in Aarhus, Danmark

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The annual @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference is under way...