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Social ScienceJul 1 – 3, 2026

Fifth Biennial Conference of the Children's History Society

Children's History Society, University of Sheffield

The Diamond, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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Abstract

Examines histories of children and young people’s experiences of space, place, belonging and identity. Explores children’s lived experiences in various contexts, using diverse theoretical and methodological approaches across disciplines.

Keywords: Children, young people and the production of space, place and belonging; Children’s depictions of place and space, community and belonging; Children and youth in public spaces; Liminality and spaces for children/children’s spaces; Demarcations between children’s spaces and adults’ spaces; Theoretical approaches to entanglement in children’s experiences; Children and dangerous spaces; Children and virtual spaces; Belonging and generation; Displacement, migration and memory; Empire, mobility and children’s experiences; Transnational childhoods and education; Emotional and sensory connections to space/place; Children and spaces of spirituality; Children and interior spaces; Space and place in children’s literature; Youth organisations; Social class and space; Folkloristic perspectives; Posthumanist perspectives

Subject classification: CIP 45 Social Sciences; ISCED-F 031 Social and behavioural sciences.

Table 1. Event details
Dates
Duration3 days
FormatIn person
VenueThe Diamond, The University of Sheffield
LocationSheffield, United Kingdom
HostChildren's History Society, University of Sheffield

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Registration, submission deadlines and the full programme are published by the organiser at histchild.org.