Children & Heritage
A colloquium from the Centre for the History of Childhood and the National Trust Partnership, University of Oxford
30th June – 1st July 2022
The colloquium was filmed and can be viewed here.
Thursday 30th June - Online 1.45pm - 5pm
Introduction & Welcome (0:00 -
Session 1: Children, Heritage & Identity
Chair: Helen Sunderland, University of Oxford
Heritage in diaspora; what is my identity? ()
Ataa Alsalloum, Liverpool School of Architecture
‘Our history, my history, my community’s history’: Children’s heritage and community-based partnerships. ()
Lucy Grimshaw, Northumbria University, and Lewis Mates, Durham University
Q&A for Session 1 ()
Session 2: Experiencing the past today
Chair: Alice Purkiss, University of Oxford
Touring the Past: children, ‘tour games’ and play in heritage education, 1760-1840 (& today) ()
Barbara Gribling, Newcastle University
Children’s place in heritage landscapes. ()
Jon Winder, University of Kent
Learning through clothes: engaging the perspectives of children on heritage clothing collections in a post-pandemic world. ()
Aude Le Guennec, Glasgow school of Art, and Clare Rose, Victoria & Albert Museum
Q&A for Session 2 ()
Closing Remarks ()
Alice Purkiss, University of Oxford
Friday 1st July - Magdalen College, Oxford & Online
9.45am - 5pm
Introduction & Welcome (0:00:00 – 0:05:14)
Jennifer Crane, University of Oxford
Keynote and Q&A (0:05:14 – 0:54:32)
Caro Howell, Foundling Museum
Session 1: Children as Heritage Visitors
Chair: Christina de Bellaigue, University of Oxford
‘They who have tickets are desired not to bring Children’: towards a history of young people at heritage sites. (0:55:43 – 1:11:15)
Matthew Grenby, Newcastle University
Evidence, Presence & Connections: ‘Histories of Childhood’ at the National Trust. (1:11:18 – 1:33:16)
Dawn Hoskin and Lucy Armstrong-Blair, National Trust.
Listening to Children in the Canadian History Hall at the Canadian Museum of History. (1:33:25 – 1:49:26)
Monica Eileen Patterson, Carleton University, Ottawa
Q&A for Session 1 (1:49:32 – 2:05:00)
Session 2: Interpreting Children’s Spaces
Chair: Rupert Goulding, National Trust
“Just as Jim Crow”: Public Schools and the Heritage of Black Children in Harlem, 1930-1970. (2:05:49 – 2:21:44)
Marta Gutman, City University of New York
Children in the Country House: Recreating Lanhydrock’s Victorian nursery for children and young people. (2:21:52 – 2:40:17)
Ruth Lewis & Charlotte Newman, National Trust.
Presenting narratives of childhood: the nursery at Audley End in Essex. (2:40:20 – 2:52:49)
Andrew Hann, English Heritage
Architectural Ghosts: The Legacy of Children’s Homes and Residential Institutions in Britain, 1834-1990. (2:52:50 – 3:04:15)
Jim Goddard, The Care Leavers Association.
Q&A for Session 2. (3:04:27 – 3:25:46)
Session 3: Children, Heritage & Culture
Chair: Catherine Sloan, University of Oxford
Children, music, and intangible heritage: discovering Elgar’s soundscapes. (3:28:57 – 3:43:02)
Joanna Bullivant, University of Oxford, & Ruth Hopkins, Musician and Animateur.
The Ideal of American Girlhood: (Re)Creating Childhood Experiences at Colonial Williamsburg and at American Girl. (3:43:14 – 3:52:17)
Abigail Fine, Queen Mary University of London
The Children’s Crusade Against Communism: Youth Propaganda and the Everyday in Cold War America. (3:52:22 – 4:03:41)
Victoria Phillips, Visiting fellow UCL & University of Oxford
Q&A for Session 3 (4:04:00 – 4:18:22)
Session 4: Engaging Children with Heritage Today
Chair: Catherine Leonard, INTO: International National Trust Organisation
Photographing Fairies: The Cottingley fairies through the lens of 2020. (4:21:54 – 4:30:59)
Alice Sage, National Trust
Embracing Interactivity at the Museum of Childhood. (4:31:16 – 4:39:40)
Charlotte Slark, Queen Mary University of London
Young People’s Engagement with Heritage: Value and Meaning. (4:39:49 – 4:49:28)
Joshua Blamire, University of Wolverhampton
Heritage Safeguarding Through Young People: Experiences from Uganda. (4:49:31 – 4:58:22)
Catherine Leonard, INTO: International National Trust Organisation, & Barbra Babweteera, Cross- Cultural Foundation of Uganda.
Q&A for Session 4 (4:58:44 – 5:27:34)
Closing Remarks (5:27:34 – 5:32:18)
Rupert Goulding, National Trust
